Abstract
In conjunction with the problems created by mainstream British racism, civil service officials encountered real administrative and logistical difficulties following the arrival of black colonial immigrants to Britain in the immediate post‐war period. Despite the collaboration of both Ministry of Labour and Colonial Office civil servants, the post‐war ‘official mind’ proved unable to deal successfully with even the relatively few colonial arrivals, 1948–51. It was this failure, at such a crucial juncture in the history of colonial immigration to Britain, which provided the basis for the evolution of official ambivalence towards the more numerous colonial immigrants of the 1950s.
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