Visions of Multicultural Britain

Jan Erik MustadSenior Lecturer

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Visions of Multicultural Britain

• A multinational state• Britain as an immigrant nation• Influx of people coming and going• Origins and history– Slavery, Empire and Common-wealth

Visions of Multicultural Britain

• Post War Immigration - coloured– 1948 British Nationality Act– ’Open Door Policy’- 1948-1962 two

turning-points– Citizenship and settlement – England– ’The British Way’ – little interference–Work, class and belonging

Visions of Multicultural Britain

• The Politics of Multi-culturalism

• From immigration to – Ethnicity, Race,

Religion/Culture

• David Cameron’s speech 2011– ’State multiculturalism has

failed’– ’We want good immigration

not mass immigration’

Visions of Multicultural Britain

• Polarisation• Extremism• Is state

multiculturalism to blame?

• From multi- to interculturalism