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Aliens Act

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Aliens Act

In the UK, an act of Parliament passed by the Conservative government in 1905 to restrict the immigration of ‘undesirable persons’ into Britain; it was aimed at restricting Jewish immigration.

Undesirable persons were defined as people who might be a charge on the poor rates because they were without means or infirm. Since the act appeared to be stimulated by the arrival of large numbers of impoverished Europeans, many of them Jews from the Russian Empire, Prime Minister Balfour was accused of anti-Semitism.



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Page Bladwin, "Subject to Empire: Married Women and the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act," Journal of British Studies (October 2001): 522.
Under the War Aliens Act, most Ukrainian immigrants had to register and report regularly to the police station.
From 1914 until 1948 naturalization fell under the provisions of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914.
 
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