Sociology of immigration
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The sociology of immigration involves the sociological analysis of immigration, particularly with respect to race and ethnicity, social structure, and political policy. Important concepts include assimilation, enculturation, marginalization, multiculturalism, postcolonialism and social cohesion.
[edit] Immigration in the United Kingdom
In the UK, foreign nationals were actively encouraged and sponsored to migrate in the 1950s after the dissolution of the Empire and the social devastation of the Second World War. The 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act changed the law so that only certain British Commonwealth members were able to migrate. This law was tightened again with the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968 and Immigration Act 1971. The Race Relations Act 1968 extended certain policies with respect to employment, housing, commercial and other services. This was extended again with the Race Relations Act 1976.
[edit] See also
- Sociology of race and ethnic relations
- Race (classification of human beings)
- Ethnicity
- Black feminism
[edit] External links
- Princeton Migration and Development Center
- Family Research Project
- UPenn Populations Studies Center
- UC Irvine Populations and Public Policy Center
- MIT Migration
- American Sociological Association - International Migration section
- Russell Sage
- Migration Research Unit, University College London, UK
- Center for Migration Studies, NY
- CEIFO
- ERCOMER: European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations, Univ of Utrecht
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