ABSTRACT
All that has been said so far about the situation of the coloured immigrant relates to his position within the production system, that is, as a worker. It completely fails to touch on the most important fact of all, namely that the immigrant identifies, and is identified, much less with the place in which he works, than with the place where he lives. Thus the conflict which is perceived by the whites is a conflict with people who, in Mr Powell's words, have changed ‘homes and neighbourhood beyond recognition’. And the conflict, as the blacks see it, is a conflict between themselves, as inhabitants of some kind of quasi-ghetto, and those who inhabit other parts of the city.
