1. Ruth Glass, Newcomers (London: Allen and Unwin, 1960), p. 237.
2. V. S. Naipaul, The Enigma of Arrival (London: Penguin, 1987), p. 109.
3. Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (London: Penguin, 1966 [1963]), p. 7.
4. On the strange temporality of migration see Ranajit Gupta, ‘The Migrant’s Time’, Postcolonial Studies 1, 2 (1998), pp. 155–60.
5. For Winston Churchill’s 1947 party political broadcast on emigrating Britons see Kathleen Paul, ‘ “British Subjects” and “British Stock”: Labour’s Post-War Imperialism’, Journal of British Studies 34, 2 (1995), p. 267. On migration to the Commonwealth see also Wendy Webster, Imagining Home: Gender, ‘Race’ and National Identity, 1945–64 (London: UCL Press, 1998), pp. 27–32.
6. ‘What Have the Poles Done for You?’ (London: British Joint Committee for Polish Affairs, 1945).
7. Joyce Eggington, They Seek a Living (London: Hutchinson, 1957).
8. Naipaul, Enigma, p. 154.