'The Politics of Immigration'

'The Politics of Immigration'

Location:	United Kingdom
Conference Date:	2004-02-21 (Archive)
Date Submitted:	2004-02-09
Announcement ID:	136948

THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION
Saturday 21st February 2004
10am-6pm @ the Churchill Archive, University of Cambridge, UK

What has been the place of race in English national identities?

How close were Enoch Powell's policies to the mainstream?

What are the similarities and differences between the politics of immigration between then and now?

This timely conference aims to reassess the politics of immigration in the 1960s and 1970s as history, dealing with the issues of Powell and Conservatism and the development of government immigration policy.

Speakers include:
Bill Schwarz (Goldsmiths' College, London)
Mark Garnett (University of Leicester)
Shamit Saggar (Queen Mary, London)
and a panel of activists of the time.

Mary-Rose Cheadle
CRASSH
University of Cambridge
Old Press Site
Silver Street
Cambridge
CB3 9EW
UK
Phone: +44 1223 765279
Fax: +44 1223 760480
Email: registrations@crassh.cam.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/events2004/enochpowell.html

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