RACE, GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN

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1 RACE, GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN

2 Also by Zig Layton-Henry THE POLITICS OF RACE IN BRITAIN CONSERVATIVE POLITICS IN WESTERN EUROPE (editor) CONSERVATIVE PARTY POLITICS (editor) Also by Paul B. Rich WHITE POWER AND THE LIBERAL CONSCIENCE: Racial Segregation and South African Liberalism. RACE AND EMPIRE IN BRITISH POLITICS

3 RACE, GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN EDITED BY Zig Layton-Henry Senior Lecturer in Politics University of Warwick AND Paul B. Rich Research Fellow Centre for Research in Eth~.tic Relations University of Warwick -- MACMilLAN

4 Zig Layton-Henry and Paul B. Rich 1986 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended), or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 33-4 Alfred Place, London WCIE 7DP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First edition 1986 Published by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Race government and politics in Britain. I. Great Britain-Race relations 2. Great Britain-Politics and govemment Layton-Henry, Zig II. Rich, Paul B '41 DAI25.Al ISBN ISBN ( ebook) DOl /

5 Contents List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors vii viii ix Introduction Zig Layton-Henry and Paul Rich 1 Continuity, Autonomy and Peripheralisation: the Anatomy of the Centre's Race Statecraft in England Jim Bulpitt 2 Conservative Ideology and Race in Modern British Politics Paul B. Rich 3 Race and the Thatcher Government Zig Layton-Henry 4 Opposition Parties and Race Policies, Marian Fitzgerald and Zig Layton-Henry 5 The House of Commons Home Affairs Sub-Committee and Government Policy on Race Relations Jaqi Nixon 6 Non-White Policy Preferences, Political Participation and the Political Agenda in Britain Donley T. Studlar 7 Political Dilemmas in Multi-Racial Education Sally Tomlinson 8 Training for What?: Government Policies and the Politicisation of Black Youth Unemployment John Solomos v

6 vi Contents 9 Spiral of Decline: Race and Policing John Benyon Index

7 List of Tables 3.1 Total acceptances for settlement, Illegal entrants detected and removed, 197~3 6.1 Problems perceived as important 6.2 Main problems in local area 6.3 Reasons for immigration 6.4 Two most important issues, Two most important issues, 1983 (Gallup) 6.6 Two most important issues, 1983 (Harris) 6. 7 Party preference and political participation vii

8 Acknowledgements The idea for this book originated at a conference on 'Race and Politics in Britain' held at St Hugh's College, Oxford, in September This conference was sponsored by the Government and Law Committee of the Economic and Social Research Council. We are grateful to the ESRC for their support. We wish to thank the participants at the conference for their helpful and stimulating contributions both as paper-givers and discussants. All of the contributions to this book have either been substantially revised in the light of these discussions or have been commissioned and written since the conference. We are grateful to Pion Ltd for giving us permission to reprint 'Continuity, Autonomy and Peripheralisation: the Anatomy of the Centre's Race Statecraft in England' by Jim Bulpitt. This first appeared in Government and Policy (vol.3, 1984, ), and a revised version is published in this book. We also wish to thank Rose Goodwin and Gurbaksh Hundal for typing the various drafts of this book and the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations for their support. ZIG LAYTON-HENRY PAUL RICH viii

9 Notes on the Contributors John Benyon is Lecturer in Politics and Public Administration in the Departments of Adult Education and Politics at the University of Leicester. He is editor of Scarman and After and co-editor of The Police: Powers, Procedures and Proprieties. Jim Bulpitt is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Warwick. He is author of Territory and Power in the United Kingdom. Marian Fitzgerald is an independent researcher into race relations. She is the author of Political Parties and Black People and articles on black political participation. Zig Layton-Henry is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Warwick. He is author of The Politics of Race in Britain and editor of Conservative Party Politics and Conservative Politics in Western Europe. Jaqi Nixon is Senior Lecturer in Social Administration in the Department of Community Studies at Brighton Polytechnic. She was formerly Senior Research Officer at the Civil Service College. She has published articles on the implementation of race relations policy and the work of the House of Commons Social Services Committee. Paul B. Rich is Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick. He is author of White Power and the Liberal Conscience: Racial Segregation and South African Liberalism and Race and Empire in British Politics. John Solomos is Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick. He is editor of Migrant Workers in Metropolitan Cities, a contributor to The Empire Strikes Back and has contributed papers to edited books and academic journals on the politics of black youth unemployment, race relations policies and theories of racism. Donley T. Studlar is Associate Professor of Politics at Centre College, Kentucky. He is co-editor of Dilemmas of Change in British Politics and author of numerous articles on race and politics ix

10 X Notes on the Contributors in Britain. His PhD dissertation, The Impact of the Coloured Immigration Issue on British Electoral Poltics, , was awarded the first Samuel H. Beer prize of the British Politics Group of the American Political Science Association. Sally Tomlinson is Professor and Head of the Department of Educational Research at the University of Lancaster. She is author of Ethnic Minorities in British Schools : A Review of the Literature and Home and School in Multi-Cultural Britain, A Sociology of Special Education.