Improvisation in high places? Setting the national framework for bussing
Improvisation in high places? Setting the national framework for bussing
Devised by a Conservative government, dispersal was finally introduced by a Labour government, under Harold Wilson (1964–70). This chapter analyses the national, broad framework to the introduction of dispersal, via White Papers, government publications and ministerial circulars. It investigates the various structural shortcomings to dispersal, such as the absence of a definition of ‘immigrant children’, the unscientific claim that when a schools had more than 30% immigrant children dispersal should be introduced, the difficulties involved in introducing ethnic statistics of immigrant children in schools, lastly the ministerial racial myopia which failed to anticipate the fact that Asian children would face racial bullying in white schools.
Keywords: Ethnic statistics, Immigrant children, Ministerial racial myopia, Assimilationism, Bipartisan consensus on immigration, Bureaucratic and state simplifications, Welfare State
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