The current “Windrush” scandal — where the Home Office has accused a number of long-settled individuals of being “illegal immigrants” — has thrown into relief the many consequences of the government’s “hostile environment” (pdf) policies. Taking a longer historical...
Read the original post in History & Policy. This week, the Home Secretary Suella Braverman provided the UK parliament with an update on the government’s delivery of recommendations as outlined in the 2020 Windrush Lessons Learned Review. This included the...
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 2013, Caribbean diplomats had...
What do you do when a special day (plus hashtag) is created to contain centuries of so-called “hostile environment” treatment? Do you celebrate it, accept official funds for special events, laud the special events, stamps and other paraphernalia and then allow the...
The original blog for this piece was written by Dr Juanita Cox, a researcher on The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and Commonwealth Context for the Black Cultural Archives. The original text can be accessed here. All images courtesy of the Black Cultural...
Community Engagement: Black History Month – October 2023 Community outreach and public engagement is, and has been, an important aspect of the Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and Commonwealth Context project with activities taking place across the year. In...
The original article for this piece was written by Debbie Ransome, web editor for the Commonwealth Round Table, and can be accessed here. Historians from the UK, the Caribbean and across the Commonwealth can cite centuries of evidence to show that what is today...
This summer Destinie Reynolds, a History and Spanish student at the University of Manchester, completed a three-month internship with our History & Policy research team. Below, Destinie shares her experience of working on the AHRC-funded oral history project...
This presentation will examine the responses of Caribbean High Commissioners, government representatives, legal specialists and scholars on the restrictions imposed on immigration from the Caribbean to the United Kingdom from the early 1960s until the present day....
A day-long conference on the Windrush Scandal, which saw some members of the long-established community in Britain denied citizenship, detained and in some cases deported, will take place in Senate House on 19th June 2023 and reflect on a significant research...
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) have received funding to undertake the...
June 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks, bringing with it over 500 passengers from the Caribbean. It will be a time of celebration of the longer history of the presence of people of Afro-Caribbean heritage in the...
Rivers of Blood claim made as new evidence emerges of Windrush deportations from the 1950s to 1970s. THE WINDRUSH scandal has its roots in Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech, a campaigner and academic has said. This article was originally published in The Voice...
The origins of the Windrush scandal lay in 30 years of racist immigration legislation designed to reduce the UK’s non-white population, according to a leaked government report. The stark conclusion was set out in a Home Office commissioned paper that officials have...
Original article here. To coincide with Black History Month, the British Library is launching Windrush Stories, a free educational web resource that marks 70 years since the arrival of Empire Windrush. Featuring newly commissioned writing and digitised archive...
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 Office has failed to transform its culture...
