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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Study to probe how we ended up with the Windrush scandal
Original post here. A team of researchers led by the University of London’s School of Advanced Study (SAS) has been funded to examine how UK immigration policy changed from what was officially an ‘open door’ to a regime which...
Windrush Stories: British Library web space launches for Black History Month
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...
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