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What does it really mean to be a citizen?
LSE IQ podcast
What Happened to African Caribbean People Migrating From the Caribbean?
The 1968 Commonwealth Immigrants Act barred the future right of entry aside from anyone not born there or with at least one parent or grandparent who had been born there. It created two tiers of British citizenship depending on ancestral connection to the territories of the British Isles. If you didn't have an immediate ancestor who was born in the British Isles then you would be allowed to enter the UK if you were a British citizen resident abroad. But if your ancestral connection was to India for example then you wouldn't be able to exercise the fundamental rights of your British citizenship and you were made stateless in fact if not in law. And what happened to all these stateless people did they just have to stay where
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