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The Aliens Act 1905 (5 Edw. 7.c. 13) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. [2] The act introduced immigration controls and registration for the first time, and gave the Home Secretary overall responsibility for matters concerning immigration and nationality. [2]
“The Aliens Act 1905.” Journal of ethnic and migration studies 12, no. 2 (1985), 275–284. Williams, Callum. “Patriality, Work Permits and the European Economic Community: The Introduction of the 1971 Immigration Act.” Contemporary British history 29, no. 4 (2015), 508–538. Wray, Helena. “The Aliens Act 1905 and the Immigration ...
Vanity Fair caricature by Spy (Leslie Ward), 11 May 1905. The caption reads "The Alien immigrant". Major Sir William Eden Evans Gordon (8 August 1857 – 31 October 1913) [1] was a British politician, military officer, and diplomat. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) who had served as a military diplomat in India.
Acts passed before 1963 are cited using this number, preceded by the year(s) of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held; thus the Union with Ireland Act 1800 is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3 c. 67", meaning the 67th act passed during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in ...
The enabling Act which provided the basis of immigration control was the Aliens Act 1905 and it was followed by the Aliens Restriction Acts of 1914 and 1919. The powers exercised by Immigration Service officers were/are largely based on the Immigration Act 1971 that came into force on 1 January 1973 and its associated rules. Other subsequent ...
11 August – Aliens Act 1905, the first modern legislation to control immigration into the U.K. [14] 12 August – First running of the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb, the world's oldest motorsport event to have been staged continuously on its original course; 25 August – 'Ancient Order of Druids' initiate neo-druidic rituals at Stonehenge.
Immigration was reduced by the Aliens Act 1905 and virtually curtailed by the 1914 Aliens Restriction Act. [75] In addition to those Russian Jews who settled permanently in the UK an estimated 500,000 Eastern European Jews transmigrated through British ports between 1881 and 1924. [ 76 ]
An earlier work was The Traffic in Italian Children, [14] and Wilkins contributed a paper "The Italian Aspect" to Arnold White's The Destitute Alien in Great Britain (1892). [15] In 1893 Wilkins wrote a pamphlet for the Women's Emancipation Union on sweated labour in the garment trade, particularly in the East End of London.