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The Union Movement ( UM) was a far-right political party founded in the United Kingdom by Oswald Mosley. Before the Second World War, Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF) had wanted to concentrate trade within the British Empire, but the Union Movement attempted to stress the importance of developing a European nationalism, rather than a ...
v. t. e. The far-right, extreme right, hard right, radical right, fascist-right and ultra-right are terms used to discuss the position a group or person occupies within right-wing politics. The terms are often used to imply that someone is an extremist. The terms have been used by different scholars in somewhat conflicting ways.
From 1941 to 1950, 1,035,000 people immigrated to the U.S., including 226,000 from Germany, 139,000 from the United Kingdom, 171,000 from Canada, 60,000 from Mexico, and 57,000 from Italy. [76] The Displaced Persons Act of 1948 finally allowed the displaced people of World War II to start immigrating. [77]
The U.K. is facing its worst riots in 13 years as far-right groups lead anti-immigration uprisings across the country, sparked by the spread of misinformation that a Muslim asylum seeker had ...
The Notting Hill race riots feature heavily in the film Absolute Beginners (1986) which was based on the book of the same name by Colin MacInnes . On 29 September 1958, Hot Summer Night premiered in the UK centring on a white family struggling to accept their daughter's love for a black Jamaican man. When the play was later turned into the 1961 ...
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 ( Pub. L. 82–414, 66 Stat. 163, enacted June 27, 1952 ), also known as the McCarran–Walter Act, codified under Title 8 of the United States Code ( 8 U.S.C. ch. 12 ), governs immigration to and citizenship in the United States. [ 8] It came into effect on June 27, 1952.
From the early 1950s immigration officers were allocated to deal with the residual screening of people who had arrived during and after the war who had still to have their status regularised. The 1953 Aliens Order replaced the 1920 Order and consolidated various other statutory instruments since the First World War.
Far-right politics, or right-wing extremism, is a spectrum of political thought that tends to be radically conservative, ultra-nationalist, and authoritarian, often also including nativist tendencies. [1] The name derives from the left–right political spectrum, with the "far right" considered further from center than the standard political right.