5 European citizens and third country nationals
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Nadine El-Enany
Abstract
Chapter 5 explores Britain’s turn towards the European Economic Community, now the European Union, in the 1960s, which coincided with the introduction of immigration controls against racialised colony and Commonwealth citizens. In the face of the defeat of the British Empire, the British government began to look elsewhere for power and riches. Britain’s economic and political prospects were argued by some to lie in European cooperation. The transition from empire to European integration has allowed imperial nostalgia and amnesia to fester in Britain. Decades later, in the course of the 2016 referendum on Britain’s EU membership, the argument was made that leaving the EU would allow Britain to regain the global influence ostensibly diminished as a consequence of EU membership. Yet this was the very same rationale that drove Britain to apply to join the EU decades earlier.
Abstract
Chapter 5 explores Britain’s turn towards the European Economic Community, now the European Union, in the 1960s, which coincided with the introduction of immigration controls against racialised colony and Commonwealth citizens. In the face of the defeat of the British Empire, the British government began to look elsewhere for power and riches. Britain’s economic and political prospects were argued by some to lie in European cooperation. The transition from empire to European integration has allowed imperial nostalgia and amnesia to fester in Britain. Decades later, in the course of the 2016 referendum on Britain’s EU membership, the argument was made that leaving the EU would allow Britain to regain the global influence ostensibly diminished as a consequence of EU membership. Yet this was the very same rationale that drove Britain to apply to join the EU decades earlier.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
