US and British authorities colluded to restrict West Indian migration after 1925

Evidence

According to U.S. immigration records, the United Kingdom used up 43.9 per cent of its quota between 1925 and 1929; 22.6 per cent between 1930 and 1934; and a mere 4.4 per cent in the 1936/40 period. This left room, technically, for considerable emigration to the United States from the British colonies in the Caribbean. However, this never occurred or, to be more direct, was never allowed to happen. Through the issuance of visas, and the requirement of substantial bonds, the United States, with the tacit approval of the British metropolitan and colonial authorities, exercised an extremely tight control over the flow of British West Indians. The result was a sharp decline in the numbers of British West Indians entering the United States after 1925. In comparison to the average of thousands a year up to and including 1924, the average for the rest of the 1920s and for the 1930s became hundreds a year. In 1932, for example, a mere 113 British West Indians entered the United States. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2372

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the US-based Black radical movements (UNIA, CPUSA, ABB) that Robinson has tracked; shows empire coordinating migration control across metropoles. — connects to: The United States sharply restricted West Indian immigration after 1925; US and British authorities jointly choked off West Indian immigration after 1925.
• QUESTION: Did this migration blockade redirect radical West Indians toward London instead, feeding the pan-Africanist circles in Britain that Robinson describes elsewhere?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2372

Broader Connections

• US and British authorities jointly choked off West Indian immigration after 1925. #expands (0.85)
• The United States sharply restricted West Indian immigration after 1925 #corroborates (0.60)