Citizenship ‘stripping’ laws have expanded the idea of a failed citizen, a boundary shaped by racialised and Islamophobic ‘moral panic’. May Robson examines what it means to be an illegal immigrant in Britain.
Tag: immigration
A Migrant People: Canary Islanders’ Routes of Resistance
Canarians represent a peculiar example of a transnational and migrant community that is as old as modern European imperialism.
Executive Order: Trump playing the ‘nation’ card
Exclusion has, in fact, been central to the configuration of political power in the US and in other white settler states.
The Brexit Syllabus: British History for Brexiteers
What would a British history syllabus for Brexiteers look like?
Can the history of veiled women inform an ugly election campaign in Canada? Reflections of Students and Faculty
The current Canadian federal election campaign has given rise to heated debates over veiling and anti-Muslim attitudes. We asked a group of Canadian graduate students and their professors at the University of Victoria in British Columbia to share their thoughts.
Little Germany, Stratford 1914
As the centenary approaches of the outbreak of the First World War, Simon Buck of Eastside Community Heritage invites support for a local initiative in London’s East End to remember the treatment meted out to the tens of thousands of German nationals living in Britain at that time
East End Lives
John Rennie writes about the East London History website, whose brief is to cover the history of the East End of London, from when the Romans arrived to the present day
The Edwardian Press & Melodrama in the Aftermath of the Sidney Street Siege
The 1911 Sidney Street siege in London marked a particular juncture in the history of British immigration, tying together Victorian concerns about the urban environment, along with modern fears surrounding immigration and the supposed impact of ‘foreign’ elements on British society
