Meaning of Windrush | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A river in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, England, a tributary of the Thames.
2. A village and civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, named after the river (OS grid ref SP1913).
3. The first significant wave of immigration of British African-Caribbean people in the 1940s and 1950s.
4. The Windrush scandal; the wrongful deportation of British citizens from the UK in the 2010s, especially of Caribbean immigrants belonging to the Windrush generation.
5. The Windrush line on the London Overground.

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“Black Britain's past stretches back to India and Africa, but more recently it draws inspiration from the several generations who had been forced to settle as slaves in the West Indies. All that history informs pre-Windrush writing in the early twentieth century.”

“Its arrival marked the first large-scale wave of Caribbean immigration into the U.K. post-WWII and the beginning of the Windrush era.”

“It could also help counteract the widespread ignorance about why there are Caribbean people living in Britain in the first place, highlighting the fact that we were invited to come, and the contribution we've made to the nation, not just since Windrush but from the time the Atlantic slave trade began over four hundred years ago.”

“When challenged, the government – and then Home Secretary Amber Rudd – repeatedly denied any awareness of Windrush deportations.”

“A team of reporters was allocated to interviewing the huge number of newly emerging Windrush victims.”

“Two days later, Downing Street refused a formal diplomatic request to discuss Windrush and the issue of deportations at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting.”

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