Settlers at the end of empire by Jean Smith - ISBN: 9781526182302
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Empire’s end: racial borders solidify, nations imagined as white.

Settlers at the end of empire

Race and the politics of migration in South Africa, Rhodesia and the United Kingdom

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    240 pages

  • Release Date

    30 September 2024

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Summary

Settlers at the end of empire traces the development of racialised migration regimes in South Africa, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) and the United Kingdom from the Second World War to the end of apartheid in 1994.

While South Africa and Rhodesia, like other settler colonies, had a long history of restricting the entry of migrants of colour, in the 1960s under existential threat and after abandoning formal ties with the Commonwealth they began to actively recruit whi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781526182302
ISBN-10:1526182300
Author:Jean Smith
Publisher:Manchester University Press
Imprint:Manchester University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:30 September 2024
Weight:346g
Dimensions:234mm x 156mm x 13mm
Series:Studies in Imperialism
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Critics Review

‘The way this book brings together histories of immigration and emigration from Britain, and shows how these were often intertwined, makes this an important contribution to British and imperial history, as well as a counter to contemporary understandings of migration.’
Duncan Money, Reviews in History

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About The Author

Jean Smith

Jean P. Smith is Lecturer in British Imperial History at King’s College London.

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