The Imperial Welfare State? Decolonisation, Education and Professional Interventions on Immigrant Children in Birmingham, 1948-1971

Autor/inn/en	Ydesen, Christian; Myers, Kevin
Titel	The Imperial Welfare State? Decolonisation, Education and Professional Interventions on Immigrant Children in Birmingham, 1948-1971
Quelle	In: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 52 (2016) 5, S.453-466 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0030-9230
DOI	10.1080/00309230.2016.1192207
Schlagwörter	Immigrants; Welfare Services; Educational History; Foreign Countries; Intervention; Immigration; Cultural Pluralism; Educational Policy; Policy Formation; School Districts; Federal Legislation; Educational Attainment; Acculturation; Social Systems; Foreign Policy; Elementary Secondary Education; Multicultural Education; Case Studies; United Kingdom (Birmingham) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Fürsorgeeinrichtung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Ausland; Kulturpluralismus; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politische Betätigung; School district; Schulbezirk; Bundesrecht; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Akkulturation; Social system; Soziales System; Außenpolitik; Multikulturelle Erziehung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study
Abstract	This article approaches debates about how the history of the post-1945 English welfare state might be written. It argues that professionals' interventions on immigrant children can serve as a prism for understanding the crafting of the modern English welfare state. In this sense the article engages with the narrative concerning the resilience of a post-war British history that sees 1945 as a moment of profound rupture symbolised by the demise of Empire, the development of a universal welfare state, and the coming of mass immigration that brought with it social problems whose management presaged a distinctive British multiculturalism. Due to its influential impact on the development of immigrant education policies in England and because of its extensive education archive the article uses the Birmingham Local Education Authority (LEA) as an empirical and historical case. The significant British Nationality Act of 1948 and the Immigration Act of 1971 serve as demarcations of the period treated. The article concludes that the immigrant child and the child's background were consistently presented as educational problems and as the cause of both poor academic attainment and a more intangible unwillingness to assimilate. In this lens the crafting of the post-war English welfare state was a continuation of an imperial project shoring up imperial boundaries within as the former colonised appeared on English soil. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01