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| العنوان: |
The 'Bogus Child' and the 'Big Uncle': The Impossible South Asian Family in Post-Imperial Britain. |
| المؤلفون: |
Natarajan, Radhika |
| المصدر: |
Twentieth Century British History; Sep2023, Vol. 34 Issue 3, p440-466, 27p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
SOUTH Asians, COMMON sense, FAMILY reunions, GEOMETRIC shapes, RACIALIZATION, FAMILY reunification |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
UNITED Kingdom, SOUTH Asia |
| الشركة/الكيان: |
GREAT Britain. Home Office |
| مستخلص: |
Between 1962 and 1965, a broad definition of dependence allowed for the migration of Commonwealth Citizens to join working family members in Britain. This article investigates how the Home Office targeted male dependent youth as a category that could reduce unwanted immigration from the Commonwealth, particularly South Asia. Home Office officials obscured the stories of dependent migrants, constructed the figure of the 'bogus child', and denigrated male familial connections, which resulted in the denial of family reunion. Colonial assumptions about the mendacity of South Asians and the illegibility of South Asian family forms shaped British policy. The 1965 White Paper and the 1968 Commonwealth Immigrants Act foreclosed the possibility of a broad definition of family and consolidated the legitimacy of the cisheterosexual family. Home Office discussions dovetailed with an emergent common sense circulated in newspapers and public debate about the illegitimacy of the South Asian family in Britain. This article interrogates the racist reasoning of the Home Office and this emergent common sense not only to show how immigration policy generates racialization but also to reveal the specificity of South Asian racialization in the post-imperial social formation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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