3 Subjects and citizens
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Nadine El-Enany
Abstract
Chapter 3 tracks the years between 1948 and 1981, during which the rights of British subjects expanded and retracted drastically. Over the course of these decades legal statuses associated with the British imperial polity proliferated, their content and meaning shifting according to fluctuating imperial ambitions. The effect of these statutory changes was to create Britain as a domestic space of colonialism in which colonial wealth is principally an entitlement of Britons, conjured up as white, and in which poor racialised people are disproportionately policed, marginalised, expelled and killed.
Abstract
Chapter 3 tracks the years between 1948 and 1981, during which the rights of British subjects expanded and retracted drastically. Over the course of these decades legal statuses associated with the British imperial polity proliferated, their content and meaning shifting according to fluctuating imperial ambitions. The effect of these statutory changes was to create Britain as a domestic space of colonialism in which colonial wealth is principally an entitlement of Britons, conjured up as white, and in which poor racialised people are disproportionately policed, marginalised, expelled and killed.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Preface viii
- Introduction 1
- 1 Bordering and ordering 17
- 2 Aliens 36
- 3 Subjects and citizens 73
- 4 Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers 133
- 5 European citizens and third country nationals 175
- Conclusion 219
- Notes 232
- Acknowledgements 290
- Index 294
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- Preface viii
- Introduction 1
- 1 Bordering and ordering 17
- 2 Aliens 36
- 3 Subjects and citizens 73
- 4 Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers 133
- 5 European citizens and third country nationals 175
- Conclusion 219
- Notes 232
- Acknowledgements 290
- Index 294
