Nation of Immigrants

"In this study David Conway shows that, until very recently, Britain's immigrant population and their descendants comprised a relatively small proportion of the total population. Earlier waves of immigration Huguenots in the seventeenth century, Jews in the nineteenth century - were comparatively small in number and time-limited. Immigration took on larger dimensions in the second part of the twentieth century, and is now at a level that is altering our national demographic profile." "The relatively high level of social harmony Britain has enjoyed results from the fact that earlier waves of immigrants, being small in number, had to adapt to the prevailing culture. Now our culture, and our nation, are in danger of fragmenting as large immigrant populations decline to integrate. If Britain is truly destined now to become, for the first time, a nation of immigrants, it may be that in the process it ceases to be a nation at all."--BOOK JACKET.Conway, David is the author of 'Nation of Immigrants', published 2007 under ISBN 9781903386583 and ISBN 1903386586.