Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2020.1804367
J. Hepworth
ABSTRACT Since the 1970s, case-studies have highlighted specific local contexts which informed variegated Irish migrant experience across nineteenth-century Britain. This article scrutinises how the Catholic Irish in Preston navigated their host society. Especially in public and organisational expressions of religion and politics, the Preston Irish were unusually closely connected to their host community. Preston’s unusual confessional demographics and multifaceted political contestation offered the Catholic Irish opportunities for meaningful interventions in local society. Situating this case-study comparatively, this article posits four key interlinking factors shaping migrants’ experiences of a nineteenth-century town: its size, broader immigration patterns, confessional composition, and labour politics.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2020.1794839
Ori Yehudai
ABSTRACT After World War II, thousands of non-Jews – most of them married to Jewish Holocaust survivors – sought relief and emigration assistance from Jewish aid organisations working in Europe. Yet Jewish organisations and Jewish communities in potential countries of resettlement were often reluctant to assist non-Jews or accept intermarried families into their midst. This article explores these tensions. It argues that appeals from non-Jews compelled Jewish institutions to consider broader questions about the boundaries of the Jewish collective and the tension between the ‘Jewish’ and ‘humanitarian’ aspects of Jewish relief work. Ironically, non-Jews played an important role in processes shaping the post-war Jewish world.
{"title":"“Doubtful Cases”: Intermarried Families in the Post-Holocaust Jewish World","authors":"Ori Yehudai","doi":"10.1080/02619288.2020.1794839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2020.1794839","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT After World War II, thousands of non-Jews – most of them married to Jewish Holocaust survivors – sought relief and emigration assistance from Jewish aid organisations working in Europe. Yet Jewish organisations and Jewish communities in potential countries of resettlement were often reluctant to assist non-Jews or accept intermarried families into their midst. This article explores these tensions. It argues that appeals from non-Jews compelled Jewish institutions to consider broader questions about the boundaries of the Jewish collective and the tension between the ‘Jewish’ and ‘humanitarian’ aspects of Jewish relief work. Ironically, non-Jews played an important role in processes shaping the post-war Jewish world.","PeriodicalId":51940,"journal":{"name":"Immigrants and Minorities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02619288.2020.1794839","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42658102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2020.1761334
D. Killingray
ABSTRACT This essay examines the ideas, motivations and activities of a handful of black Baptists who played a role in the pan-African movement which straddled the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, notably Thomas L. Johnson, Theophilus Scholes, Emmanuel Mulgrave, and William Forde. Several revisionist views are suggested. First, that although black professionals initiated and directed pan-African activities, they relied heavily on the moral, practical and financial help provided by white men and women. Second, that this inter-racial endeavour relied on Christian networks of Quakers and other dissenters, including various strands of the Brotherhood Movement in Britain, to oppose lynching in the United States, and in demanding a recognition of black civil rights at home and in the colonies. And third, that black Christians played a significant role in the formation of the African Association in 1897, its child the Pan-African Conference held in London in June 1900, the subsequent short-lived Pan-African Association from 1900–1902, and the few weak attempts to revive and foster pan-African cooperation in Britain until 1913.
{"title":"Black Baptists and Pan-Africanism in Britain, 1890-1913","authors":"D. Killingray","doi":"10.1080/02619288.2020.1761334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2020.1761334","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay examines the ideas, motivations and activities of a handful of black Baptists who played a role in the pan-African movement which straddled the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-centuries, notably Thomas L. Johnson, Theophilus Scholes, Emmanuel Mulgrave, and William Forde. Several revisionist views are suggested. First, that although black professionals initiated and directed pan-African activities, they relied heavily on the moral, practical and financial help provided by white men and women. Second, that this inter-racial endeavour relied on Christian networks of Quakers and other dissenters, including various strands of the Brotherhood Movement in Britain, to oppose lynching in the United States, and in demanding a recognition of black civil rights at home and in the colonies. And third, that black Christians played a significant role in the formation of the African Association in 1897, its child the Pan-African Conference held in London in June 1900, the subsequent short-lived Pan-African Association from 1900–1902, and the few weak attempts to revive and foster pan-African cooperation in Britain until 1913.","PeriodicalId":51940,"journal":{"name":"Immigrants and Minorities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02619288.2020.1761334","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44137717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2020.1810667
Ben Szreter
ABSTRACT This article examines evidence about people of colour in Victorian Britain. Census data shows that 0.59% of the population of England and Wales was born outside of Europe in 1911. However, census data omits ethnicity. Evidence analysed in this article shows that people of colour did migrate to and settle in Victorian Britain and were able to integrate in British society. Some of the textual evidence presented provides clear evidence of social cohesion whereas other shows continued orientalisation and ‘othering’ of people of colour but does provide implicit suggestions of social cohesion such as exogamy even through its disdainful language.
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Pub Date : 2020-05-03DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2020.1786368
Nadja Durbach
ABSTRACT During the First World War, Jews interned in Germany struggled to keep kosher. The British government initially funded a kosher food programme for its own interned nationals, but it removed all government monies in late 1915. The British government’s refusal to take responsibility for the proper feeding of its Jewish subjects held as ‘enemy aliens’ was both shaped by and bolstered assumptions that Jews could never be truly British. However, it was also a response to tensions evident within the Anglo-Jewish community about how its members could best demonstrate their good citizenship.
{"title":"Keeping Kosher in the Camp: Feeding Interned British Jews during the First World War","authors":"Nadja Durbach","doi":"10.1080/02619288.2020.1786368","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2020.1786368","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During the First World War, Jews interned in Germany struggled to keep kosher. The British government initially funded a kosher food programme for its own interned nationals, but it removed all government monies in late 1915. The British government’s refusal to take responsibility for the proper feeding of its Jewish subjects held as ‘enemy aliens’ was both shaped by and bolstered assumptions that Jews could never be truly British. However, it was also a response to tensions evident within the Anglo-Jewish community about how its members could best demonstrate their good citizenship.","PeriodicalId":51940,"journal":{"name":"Immigrants and Minorities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02619288.2020.1786368","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48866683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-03-25DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2020.1727321
Olle Jansson
ABSTRACT This article explores how social status and the exploitability of ethnic groups interplays with how employers ascribe skills and suitability to different nationalities through a historical case study of a regional two-tier segment of the Swedish post-war labour market. Drawing on previous research on the connections between social status, skills perceptions and labour market outcomes, the article argues for a more nuanced view where the specific economic and political circumstances play an important part in making employers perceive ethnic groups to be suitable for unskilled or skilled industrial work. The results show that nationalities that initially had a comparatively high social status could quickly lose any labour market privilege in a labour market segment if circumstances made them exploitable at the same time as employers perceived them to lack skills suitable for skilled industrial work.
{"title":"Suitable, Exploitable or Undesirable: Employer Perceptions and Categorisations of Migrant Workers in the Manufacturing Industries of Post-War Central Sweden","authors":"Olle Jansson","doi":"10.1080/02619288.2020.1727321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2020.1727321","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores how social status and the exploitability of ethnic groups interplays with how employers ascribe skills and suitability to different nationalities through a historical case study of a regional two-tier segment of the Swedish post-war labour market. Drawing on previous research on the connections between social status, skills perceptions and labour market outcomes, the article argues for a more nuanced view where the specific economic and political circumstances play an important part in making employers perceive ethnic groups to be suitable for unskilled or skilled industrial work. The results show that nationalities that initially had a comparatively high social status could quickly lose any labour market privilege in a labour market segment if circumstances made them exploitable at the same time as employers perceived them to lack skills suitable for skilled industrial work.","PeriodicalId":51940,"journal":{"name":"Immigrants and Minorities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02619288.2020.1727321","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47954648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2020.1813976
E. West
{"title":"Newsworthy to Whom? A Conversation with Kennetta Hammond Perry","authors":"E. West","doi":"10.1080/02619288.2020.1813976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2020.1813976","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51940,"journal":{"name":"Immigrants and Minorities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02619288.2020.1813976","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44615669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2020.1781625
N. Oppenheim
ABSTRACT This article uses Edward Scobie, the Dominican-born journalist and historian, as an entry point for recovering histories of the Black British press and popular history. Examining two commercial Black magazines from the early 1960s, Tropic and Flamingo, it identifies the political utility of Black British history. Reflecting on presentist and populist approaches, this research acknowledges the reparative potential of history. Reconstructing untold and marginalised histories, from abolitionist activists to Black composers, these history features were a direct riposte to the anti-immigrant and racist cultures that were being emboldened by state-driven policy, such as the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act. By focusing on popular magazine histories, this research challenges us to think about what counts as historical scholarship and where it is produced.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2020.1813972
Simon Peplow, E. West
{"title":"Immigrants & Minorities 2020 Special Issue: Race, Immigration, and the British Media since 1945","authors":"Simon Peplow, E. West","doi":"10.1080/02619288.2020.1813972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2020.1813972","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51940,"journal":{"name":"Immigrants and Minorities","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/02619288.2020.1813972","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45249760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2020.1781623
E. West
ABSTRACT Drawing on archival material from the Black Cultural Archives, the British Library, and the Institute of Race Relations, this article sheds fresh light on a largely overlooked 1991 visit to Britain by controversial Black American preacher Al Sharpton following the racist murder of Black teenager Rolan Adams. The extraordinary response to Sharpton’s arrival by the British mainstream press revealed racist patterns of news reporting and a chauvinistic rejection of ‘outside agitators’, while the minister’s intervention drew a mixed response from local activists. However, the furore sparked by Sharpton’s visit also helped to raise public awareness of Adams’ murder and galvanise local Black communities, providing an important insight into anti-racist organising and British media coverage of high-profile racist incidents prior to the death of Stephen Lawrence.
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