Granting citizenship to colonial peoples paradoxically enabled mass settlement in Europe

Evidence

Colonized peoples had been granted citizenship as a form of ideological integration. Now this facilitated the entry of labor, but it also meant that the colonial workers could bring in dependents and settle. By the 1960s, the authorities began introducing laws to stop colonial immigration. There was a convergence in status between “guestworkers” and colonial workers. But by 1970 there were over 12 million immigrants in Western Europe and the process of ethnic minority formation had become irreversible. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3862

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Connects to the immodesty/sacrifice articles thematically through how political integration schemes backfire; more directly, useful context for any essay on unintended consequences of ideological inclusion policies.