The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-war Immigration

There have been three periods of high immigration since 1945: in the 1950s, the 1970s and finally in the years following 1997, when the country absorbed the highest levels of net immigration in its history. In this period, more than 2.5 million people, from all over the world, came to Britain in search of a better life for themselves and their families. This book reviews the successes and the failures of immigration policy since the war. Britain, Goodhart shows, has been immensely enriched ...