The Windrush scandal Black History month.
Who are the Windrush generation and why are they worried?
A majority of them(367) arrived in the UK before 1973, when the immigration rules changed, while others either arrived
later or were a family member of the so-called'Windrush Generation'.
The Windrush generation refers to citizens of former British
colonies who arrived before 1973, when the rights of such Commonwealth citizens to live and work in Britain were substantially curtailed.
It has been estimated that there are 500,000 people resident in Britain who were born in
a Commonwealth country and arrived in the United Kingdom before 1973- including the Windrush arrivals.
A majority of them(559) had arrived in the UK before 1973, when the immigration rules had changed, while the others either
arrived later or were a family member of the so-called“Windrush generation”.
Context: UK Home Secretary has issued another personal apology for the Windrush scandal, involving migrants being wrongly
denied their British citizenship rights, as a latest official update revealed that hundreds more Indians were caught up in the row.
In the light of the Windrush scandal, Black History month has
taken on a renewed significance and it is more important now than ever that we learn and understand as a society the role and legacy of the British Empire, colonisation and slavery,