The control of cypriot migration to Britain between the wars

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Immigration to Britain from countries of the so‐called ‘New Commonwealth’ is widely supposed to have become subject to formal control for the first time with the Commonwealth Immigrants Act of 1962. This article shows that immigration from Cyprus had already come under control prior to the Second World War. It describes the way in which Cypriot settlement in London came to be perceived officially as a ‘problem’, and how ‐ given the inability of the British Home Office to restrict arrivals of British subjects — the colonial government in Cyprus introduced increasing controls on emigration from the Cyprus end. These became a framework for the regulation of Cypriot emigration to Britain which continued through the post‐war period.

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