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Wolverhampton Borough Council Departmental Records/ Housing Department/'Control of Commonwealth Immigration'

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA
Reference code(s): CMB/WOL/HOU/25
Title: Wolverhampton Borough Council Departmental Records/ Housing Department/'Control of Commonwealth Immigration'
Date(s): 1969 - 1970
Level of description: File
Extent and medium of the unit of description: 1 file

CONTEXT AREA
Name of creator(s): Wolverhampton Borough Council Departmental Records/ Housing Department
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CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA
Scope and content: The report of the inquiry details life for the new residents and covers employment vouchers; the numbers of immigrants admitted for settlement; the effect of current restrictions; categories of voucher holders admitted; and how these controls have worked and some summary remarks. Statistics of the distribution of commonwealth (and other) immigrants in 1969. The 1969 figures of holders of vouchers, figures of dependants admitted for settlement and the numbers of Asian people from East Africa are also given (1970.
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CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE AREA
Conditions governing access: Open access
Conditions governing reproduction: @Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies
Language/scripts of material: English
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Finding aids: Printed catalogues

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA
Recorder's note: RSB
Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
Date(s) of descriptions: 3/3/01

Interest: Black, Asian

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Subjects
Ethnic groups
Immigration
Welfare
Interethnic relations

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Wolverhampton, West Midlands, United Kingdom

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