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Socialist Review, November 1993

Briefing: Immigration

Racism by numbers

From Socialist Review, No. 169, November 1993.
Copyright © Socialist Review.
Copied with thanks from the Socialist Review Archive.
Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

Arguments about immigration rage as immigrants are blamed for jobs and housing shortages. The truth is very different.

1953

   –   

  2,000

1954

11,000

1955

42,700

1956

46,850

1957

42,400

1958

27,450

1959

21,550

1960

58,300

White

   –   

  8 percent

Indian

13 percent

Black

22 percent

Pakistani/Bangladeshi

nearly 25 percent


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