As we prepare to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Windrush, we take a look at the legacy of the Windrush generation in London. JessicaMCUre | politicslondon |
It is 75 years since the HMT Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, Essex, on 22 June 1948.
The ship brought 492 passengers to the UK from a number of Caribbean islands including Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, to help fill post-War labour shortages. But in 2018 it emerged that the government had not properly recorded the details of the people who had been granted permission to stay in the UK, and many were wrongly deported.The term refers to people who arrived in the UK from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1971, when British immigration laws changed.
Although not all Windrush generation migrants arrived on HMT Empire Windrush itself, the ship became a symbol of the wider mass-migration movement.They became manual workers, cleaners, drivers, and nurses in the newly established NHS - and some broke new ground in representing black Britons in society.He arrived at Tilbury in his 20s and became a postman and campaigner for black-British rights.
They are among more than 500,000 UK residents who were born in a Commonwealth country and arrived before 1971, according to University of Oxford estimates.But the HMT Empire Windrush's arrival has also been celebrated many times in popular culture.
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