Penniless Orientals of the Pedlar Type
The Republic of Ireland and Commonwealth Migrant Rights, 1940s–1970s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7150827 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Erdos (0000-0001-7615-5736, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 861-881 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0960-7773 • E-ISSN: 1469-2171 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0960777324000651 |
| OpenAlex | W4409690227 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 15 |
Especially as regards Commonwealth restrictions, Ireland's immigration policy has been seen as (surreptitiously) dependent on UK policy. Although the Common Travel Area imposed serious limits, Irish discretion was in fact significant and restrictive. In 1948–9 the United Kingdom secured Ireland's public commitment to extend reciprocal citizenship rights to all the Commonwealth, notwithstanding its secession, but Ireland avoided this vis-à-vis the ‘new’ Commonwealth and left its aliens exemption law deliberately opaque. Whilst broadly mirroring the UK Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962, Ireland retained apartheid South Africa as partially privileged and only comprehensively exempted British citizens born within the United Kingdom. From 1973, the United Kingdom largely abandoned any privileged treatment but, in entirely removing this in 1975 and selectively imposing visas from 1976, Ireland went beyond even this. These divergences reflected that, compared to the United Kingdom, it had left an increasingly diverse Commonwealth in 1949 and had a stronger homogenous nationalism
Commonwealth · Economic growth · Economics · Human rights · Migrant workers · Political science · Irish and British Studies · Law
Migrants, Immigration and Diversity in Twentieth-century Northern Ireland
Race in Irish Literature and Culture
Patriality, Work Permits and the European Economic Community
The Politics of Citizenship in 1940s Britain
Reanalysing Ireland’s Exit from the Commonwealth 1948–49
General Amin and the Uganda Asians
Nationality and Citizenship Laws of the Commonwealth and of the Republic of Ireland
Separate and Unequal
The Common Travel Area between Britain and Ireland
The Kenyan Asians, British Politics, and the Commonwealth Immigrants Act, 1968
Racism and social change in the Republic of Ireland
The Implications of Eire's Relationship with the British Commonwealth of Nations
The Conservative government and the 1961 Commonwealth Immigration Act
The specificity of Irish racism
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |