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² https://archive.discoversociety.org/2016/07/05/viewpoint-brexit-class-and-british-national-identity (accessed June 2023).

³ See Gavin Esler, How Britain Ends: English Nationalism and the Rebirth of the Four Nations (2021). Ward, Stuart, Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain (Cambridge, 2023), 2CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

⁴ Ward, Untied Kingdom, 3.

⁵ Interestingly, the East African Asian diaspora in Britain is remarkably dispersed. Their settlement in Britain spanned across the Four Nations.

⁶ See Aiyar, Sana, Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora (Cambridge, MA, 2015)Google Scholar.

⁷ New York Times, 11 Feb. 1970.

⁸ See, for example, responses to the 1958 Notting Hill riots when Black Britons who were targeted for attack were then singled out by the state as incompatible with the British way of life. See Perry, Kennetta Hammond, ‘“Little Rock” in Britain: Jim Crow's Transatlantic Topographies’, Journal of British Studies, 51 (2012), 155–77CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

⁹ It is not uncommon for issues of statelessness to be discussed when retelling the story of Kenyan Asians. It is important to note, however, that Kenyan Asians were not altogether barred from entering Britain. A quota system was put in place that would permit 1,500 entry vouchers for heads of families. During a parliamentary debate, the Home Secretary confirmed: ‘They are our citizens. What we are asking them to do is form a queue.’ See Collier, J. G., ‘The Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968 – A British Opinion’, Verfassung und Recht in Übersee / Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America, 2 (1969), 457–68Google Scholar.

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