Why did African people migrate to England years ago. I heard they had a British passport, is this true?

Question

When I say African, I also include the Asians who lived in Africa. I have been told that lots of them had the option to move to England with their passport. But I'm not sure exactly what happened.

Answer 1

There Used To Be Many Colonies Around The World Run By England / Great Britain. When Those Colonies Became Independent As With India 60 Years Ago, There Where Many People Who Had British Papers And Thus Had The Right To Come And Live In Britain. At One Time Britain Under Queen Victoria Had Colonies In More Than Half Of The World, India, Africa, Asia, Australia. The List Was Endless But Now Much Smaller. Check Out The Commonwealth Games For A List Of All The Countries.
It May Surprise You.

Answer 2

Anyone within the Commonwealth had the right to enter Britain and settle there. They were Commonwealth citizens, not British citizens. The Commonwealth includes all the previous colonies so people from Africa, India and Asia came in great numbers to try make a living in Britain. At the time Britain was in need of manpower and wanted to keep its influence on its previous colonies, and the leading role in the Commonwealth.
The rules have been tightened lately.

Answer 3

When the collonial powers withdrew, they still wanted to keep contact with their subject countries. France, for example, went to great lengths to keep its colonies sweet, including citizenship.

Post war britain had a manpower shortage and the best place to get workers who already knew how the British systems worked, was the colonies. Many people were therefore offered incentives to live and work in Britain, to meet the skills gap.

In addition to this, people who lived in the collonies were also considered British citizens and could therefore gain an appropriate passport.

Luck

Answer 4

New societies, new peoples, and new communities usually originate in acts of migration. Someone or ones decide to move from one place to another. They choose a new destination and sever their ties with their traditional community or society as they set out in search of new opportunities, new challenges, new lives, and new life worlds. Most societies in human history have a migration narrative in their stories of origin. All communities in American society trace their origins in the United States to one or more migration experiences. America, after all, is "a nation of immigrants."
Migration has been central in the making of African-American history and culture and in the total American experience. The transatlantic slave trade was fundamental to the development of the colonial economy; and after the War of Independence, the domestic slave trade was the engine that enabled the expansion of the cotton economy not only within the United States but also, through trade, to the international scene. In the twentieth century, black migrations from the South were crucial to America's urban industrial development. They transformed a southern, rural population into a national, urban one, and the black presence throughout the country has influenced American legal systems as well as social and cultural policies and practices.

Answer 5

you just apply for it. There is a cause to get it called something like settlement or something like that meaning you have lived and worked in the UK long enough to qualify for the passoirt. I studied up on if for a bit a while back becuase I thought I was going to have to go that route to get one but then ended up getting mine through parental relationship and didnt need to go the other route. If you call the passport agency in liverpool they will tell you how to go about doing it. They are one of the main ones and will tell you the route you must go to get it MITCH K he went there legally worked legally a big difference. I did the same I could have illegally immigrated to the UK but I had a little more respect for myself and that country and obeyed the laws and did it legally. Sorry your defense of people who break the law doesnt fit here. If they would obey the law there would be no need for a wall or fence.

Answer 6

Have you ever heard about the Commonwealth of Nations, also called British Commonwealth or in the short form just Commonwealth?
You wanna read up on that and you got the answer to your question!!! Try the link below.

Answer 7

If African people do migrate to England they do for the universal reason all people migrate. The hope for a better life then the one they left.

Answer 8

Decode this lyrics " You raised me up"
Long long time ago.
Back in the past.
When Africa was their colony.
"The young one" just wanted to go home.
Since they was the one who raised them up back in the past.
Now they were blurr on why they following them home back to England.
The blunders and slip-ups with human errors created back in the past without being aware of the mess out there.
Ever wonder how they were blurr when they did not drop off from the coconut trees.
Those who drop off from the coconut trees will not follow them home.
With time they were at loss and stranded on planet earth.
Took for granted that Africa was theirs.
While chasing others " Out of Africa" with living examples in Darfur.