The 'Bogus Child' and the 'Big Uncle': The Impossible South Asian Family in Post-Imperial Britain.

IF 1.1 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Radhika Natarajan
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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.

“伪君子”与“大伯”:后帝国时代英国不可能的南亚家庭
1962年至1965年间,对依赖的宽泛定义允许英联邦公民移民到英国与工作家庭成员团聚。这篇文章调查了英国内政部如何将男性受抚养青年作为减少来自英联邦,特别是南亚的不受欢迎移民的一个类别。内政部官员掩盖了被抚养移民的故事,编造了“假孩子”的形象,并诋毁了男性家庭关系,导致家庭团聚被拒绝。殖民时期关于南亚人的谎言和南亚家庭形式的难以辨认的假设塑造了英国的政策。1965年的《白皮书》和1968年的《联邦移民法案》取消了对家庭进行广义定义的可能性,巩固了异性恋家庭的合法性。英国内政部的讨论与报纸上流传的一种新兴常识以及公众对南亚家庭在英国的私生子身份的讨论不谋而合。本文对内政部的种族主义推理和这种新兴的常识进行了质疑,不仅展示了移民政策如何产生种族化,而且揭示了后帝国社会形态中南亚种族化的特殊性。
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期刊介绍: Twentieth Century British History covers the variety of British history in the twentieth century in all its aspects. It links the many different and specialized branches of historical scholarship with work in political science and related disciplines. The journal seeks to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries, in order to foster the study of patterns of change and continuity across the twentieth century. The editors are committed to publishing work that examines the British experience within a comparative context, whether European or Anglo-American.
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