Migration, Racism and Sexual Health in Postwar Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4493601 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Hanley (0000-0003-1609-2117, University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Pages | 202-222 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbac018 |
| OpenAlex | W4292937708 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 24 |
The British Nationality Act 1948 conferred citizenship on Commonwealth subjects, granting them the right to settle in Britain. Hundreds of thousands of New Commonwealth migrants made use of the Act. Almost immediately, opponents began criticizing the health impacts of immigration, focusing on diseases like syphilis and gonorrhoea. More than any other migrant group, Black British men from the Caribbean became implicated in debates over venereal disease. This article explores how health workers and journalists used health data in ways that reinforced racial stereotypes, fed white prejudices and presented Black men as the most significant sexual health threat in postwar Britain
Citizenship · Commonwealth · Criminology · Family medicine · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Immigration · Nationality · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · Syphilis · White (mutation) · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medicine
Testimonial injustice
Mixed Race Britain in The Twentieth Century
New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality
Civilization and Syphilization
Migrant labour, racism and the British National Health Service
Transience, Class and Gender in Interwar Sexual Health Policy
Penicillin
Prostitutes, Penicillin and Prophylaxis
Importing Trachoma
London Is the Place for Me
Caribbean Slavery, British Anti-Slavery, and the Cultural Politics of Venereal Disease
African Caribbean Immigrants in The United Kingdom
Legislating against Hatred
Dark Strangers” in Our Midst
Condom Nation
Immigration and Race Relations in Britain, 1960-1967
Fit to Fight, Fit to Mix
All England Was Present at that Siege
State of Peril
Mapping the Notting Hill Riots
West Indian Migration to Britain
Whitewashing Britain
The only white man in there
West Indian Immigration
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |