This for a start:
http://www.photoinsight.org.uk/visual/a ... er%202.pdf
The 1931 census gives the figure of 1,075 Cypriots in Britain, increasing to 10,343 by
1951. The marked increase in the late 1950s is directly related to the active recruitment of
labour by the British government as well as the conflict between the communities in
Cyprus promoted by colonial politics of divide and rule. The next large wave from
Cyprus came in the 1960s after the island became independent. Many Cypriotturkish
people in particular had been loyal to the colonial administration, serving as officers,
policemen, commandos, and auxiliary policemen and were rewarded with British
passports, paid passage to Britain and a lump sum to settle. The 1962 and 1968
Commonwealth immigration legislation was an added impetus for families to settle in
Britain in fear that the gates might close as well as the fresh inter-communal conflicts in
1963 and 1967-1968. The next large wave came as a result of the 1974 military
intervention and occupation of the island by Turkey which led to mass population
exchanges and emigration. Thousands came to Britain but were not recognised as refugees
unlike the Vietnamese who arrived at the same time (Mehmet Ali, 1989). Recognising the
Cypriots as political refugees would have forced the British government into a political
position it was trying to fudge as one of the guarantor powers in the Cyprus conflict
alongside its NATO ally, the invader, Turkey. In contrast, the Vietnamese had to be
accommodated, if not welcomed, because they had fought against the Viet Cong and
communism on the side of Western powers.