Category: #6 Labor
Hey All You People
Following the conclusion of World War II, many people were left homeless or in a place where they felt they just did not belong. Many of these people had endured years of hardships as a result of the second world war. They came to be known as Displaced Peoples, or DPs for short. Their trauma […]
The Problem with Importing People
After World War Two, many displaced persons could not find work and were placed in camps created and provided by the IRO, the International Refugee Organization. As many European countries were physically destroyed by the war, they needed laborers: cheap, Continue reading The Problem with Importing People→
The Explanation for Anti-Immigration
Mass displacement and immigration after World War II generated expanded racial tensions in Europe. In Britain, increased immigration led to the creation of a political group called the White Defense League. The group stressed British identity based on race, and emphasized strong anti-immigration rhetoric. The White Defense League brought to light the anti-immigration sentiment in Britain based on…
Postwar Labor and Displaced Peoples
World War II led to the greatest loss of human life of any war in history, with the death toll in the tens of millions. It can be said that the war also led to the greatest displacement of people … Continue reading →
Race and the British Identity
In Frantz Fanon’s “The Fact of Blackness”, he expresses that “for not only must the black man be black; he must be black in relation to the white man…The black man has no ontological resistance in the eyes of the white man” (Fanon,110). Colonial black migrants entering England were not seen as “British” because they did … Continue reading “Race and the British Identity”
