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"Cause for concern"? Policing Black migrants in post-war Britain (1945-68)
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Peplow, Simon (2022) "Cause for concern"? Policing Black migrants in post-war Britain (1945-68). Immigrants & Minorities, 40 (1-2). pp. 177-209. doi:10.1080/02619288.2021.1948403 ISSN 0261-9288.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02619288.2021.1948403
Abstract
This article explores how Black migrants were routinely considered to be a ‘cause for concern’ in post-war Britain, identified as ‘undesirables’ and subjected to discriminatory policing practices. Despite the police’s professed ‘colour-blind’ approach of ‘non-differentiation’ – often raising difficulties or contradictions when called on for their observations – characterisations of Black people as ‘more predisposed towards criminality’ led to their being disproportionately targeted by the police’s discretionary powers. Utilising Home Office and Metropolitan Police Office records, this article demonstrates how the police’s professed attempts at liaison with Black communities and recording of ‘racial disturbances’ were in reality efforts to monitor and ‘prove’ notions of Black criminality, which, in some cases, led to calls from the police for the mass deportation of so-called ‘undesirables’.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Immigrants & Minorities | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0261-9288 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 40 | ||||||||
Number: | 1-2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 177-209 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/02619288.2021.1948403 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Immigrants & Minorities on 05/08/2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02619288.2021.1948403 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 July 2021 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 5 August 2022 |
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