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The portraits hold up a mirror to a society that has underappreciated the Windrush generation for far too long.
The arrival of Windrush brought new forms of music to Britain.
Pore over family documents such as birth certificates and old passports, photographs and heirlooms, however trinket-like they might seem. Family history requires research in its broadest sense.
Community-produced newsletters informed newcomers of the local shops, clubs and bars that were most welcoming to Caribbean migrants.
The clothing choices of the Windrush arrivals signified respect both for themselves and the life-changing journey they had undertaken.
Cricket was a significant bridge between England and ‘home’ in the Caribbean, making the sport an important part of the black Atlantic cultural exchange.
Windrush has turned out to be a defining moment in telling the story of Britain, with writing by Caribbean migrants fundamental to exposing the realities of the British empire.
Nights out dancing! How African and Caribbean music and dance have shaped British culture.
A paper trail, both typed and handwritten, documents Cummings’ dogged efforts to secure accommodations and resources for the Windrushers on a time crunch.
Members of Preston’s Caribbean community describe their experiences as migrants arriving and putting down deep roots in this provincial town.
The human rights act dictates that the UK is obliged to protect asylum seekers. So why is the home secretary ignoring it?
Britain’s widely circulated notion of the ‘foreign criminal’ has generated an atmosphere of hostility in Jamaica.
Biometric data is being used to target those deemed unwanted aliens.
Interest in Black British writing has grown and shrunk since the late 1940s. Is the current wave going to crash like those before it?
This sorry tale of institutional racism represents a scandal to rival the treatment of the Windrush generation.
Her novels and essays, especially Small Island and The Long Song, brought Britain’s slave-owning colonial history home to ordinary Britons, black and white alike.
Labour’s immigration plans are progressive, but could still get bogged down in red tape.
The new NHS charging regime will have a severe impact on the most vulnerable people in society.
During World War II, many Anglo-Italians who had come to the UK as economic migrants, were interned as ‘enemy aliens’ – and some deported.
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Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Newcastle University
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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, The Open University
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Former Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics
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Lecturer in Criminology, Birkbeck, University of London
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Reader in Political Science and International Relations, Aston University
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Lecturer in International Politics, Aberystwyth University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Essex; IF Senior Research Associate, Intellectual Forum at Jesus College in the University of Cambridge; Researcher for the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Bocconi University, University of Cambridge
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Southampton
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Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
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PhD Researcher, University of Birmingham
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PhD candidate, Kent Law School, University of Kent
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Early-career researcher (Francophone studies) & English tutor, Université de Montpellier