Windrush passengers became frequent guests on the BBC after their arrival 70 years ago.
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What is the legacy of the Empire Windrush for black Britishness today?
When the Empire Windrush arrived in Tilbury Docks 70 years ago, it was on a return journey – having taken West Indian war veterans back to the Caribbean.
Great Britain was not the only country behaving badly with its Caribbean population: France also experienced similar waves of post-war migration.
She lurches from crisis to crisis but the prime minister remains in post. How does she do it?
Where to start dismantling the UK’s hostile environment policy on immigration.
The son of Pakistani immigrants was told at school he’d never even make it to university.
A culture of disbelief for asylum seekers is endemic in the British immigration system.
Theresa May lasted a long time, but this department chews up secretaries of state like no other.
Home Office deportation targets reduce complex human stories to statistics.
In a bid to meet unrealistic migration targets, the government has been enforcing document checks at every turn.
An immigration law expert on what it’s like to navigate the UK’s hostile environment.
The UK’s black Caribbean community is traditionally more inclined towards Labour. They’re even less likely to switch now.
At Starbucks, where the staff turnover is lower than most, anti-bias training might make a small difference. Maybe.
The Home Office threw away landing documents that are now vital to people trying to prove their right to stay in the UK.
A pilot requiring some voters to show ID in May’s local elections could be the next blow for the Windrush generation.
People from the Windrush generation have been told recently that they do not belong in Britain, but they are no strangers to feelings of unbelonging, which feature strongly in their stories of early life in Britain.
When freedom of movement is revoked, legal migrants are suddenly asked to prove they have the right to reside.
It’s time to stop the brutality of the UK’s ‘hostile environment’ for migrants.
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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