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From Windrush to climate justice: Joining the dots for the future
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 called...
Remembering the Ship in Citizenship: An Evening with John Agard & a Celebration of the 75th Anniversary of Windrush
This free evening event rounds off a day-long conference on The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and Commonwealth Context, offering us an opportunity to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of Windrush and to reflect on the contributions of the so-called ‘Windrush...
The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational & Commonwealth Context
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 UK....
Anger as Home Secretary ditches key review recommendations, failing Windrush scandal survivors and campaigners
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...
The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and Commonwealth Context: Black Cultural Archives
Caribbean migrants who came to the United Kingdom after World War II and before 1st January 1973 shared the status of Citizens of the UK and Colonies (CUKCs) and came to be known by the late 1990s as the Windrush Generation. Between 1962 and 1973 hugely complex layers...
Windrush scandal caused by ’30 years of racist immigration law’ – report
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...