Our Project
The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and Commonwealth Context is an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded project led by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS), School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London in partnership with the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton.
This three-year research project seeks, for the first time, to produce a scholarly examination of the so-called ‘Windrush Scandal’ within a fully transnational framework, one that properly considers the agency of a wide variety of official and non-official actors from both sides of the Atlantic and the role of the post-colonial and Commonwealth contexts of international relations.
The project’s key objective is to develop a unique digital research resource of extended interviews on the national and diplomatic activism around the Windrush scandal, supported by digitized government documents from the British archives and Caribbean government records.
Latest updates
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At “tipping point”: New report signals limited drive within the Home Office properly to address the Windrush scandal
In a much anticipated independent review published on the Windrush scandal last week, Wendy Williams warns that the Home Office is at “tipping point” and must maintain momentum to ensure systemic and cultural change. As early as...
Windrush: Home Office has failed to transform its culture, report says
Source: The Guardian Newspaper, 31 March 2022. Original article by Amelia Gentleman available here. Progress report by Wendy Williams finds ‘lack of tangible progress or drive to achieve cultural changes required’ The Home...
Research study on how the Windrush Scandal unfolded 70 years on
Original article published by The Voice here. A NEW study will examine how the UK’s “open door” immigration policy resulted in the 2018 Windrush Scandal. Researchers at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study (SAS)...
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