We're Here Because You Were ThereWhat are the origins of the hostile environment against immigrants in the UK? Patel retells Britain's recent history in an often shocking account of state racism that still resonates today. In a series of post war immigration laws from 1948 to 1971, arrivals from the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa to Britain went from being citizens to being renamed immigrants. In the late 1960s, British officials drew upon an imperial vision of the world to contain what