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Editor's note
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It’s been 70 years since the Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks in London from Jamaica, carrying nearly 500 migrants. Commemorations to mark the anniversary have been overshadowed by the treatment of children of the Windrush generation under Britain’s “hostile environment” for immigration. April-Louise Pennant and Nando Sigona look at the legacy of the Windrush and lament that it’s part of a black British history which has been widely ignored.
Much has been made of the warm reception the migrants received in 1948, but in his research in the BBC Written Archives, James Procter found the reaction was somewhat mixed. Presenters mentioned regrets they’d heard expressed about – and by – the new arrivals.
Recent treatment of economic migrants from the Windrush by the Home Office bears similarities to the treatment of Anglo-Italians during World War II, writes Rachel Pistol. Many Italians who had lived and worked in Britain for years were interned as “enemy aliens”. Some were then deported, and met their deaths at sea.
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Gemma Ware
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April-Louise Pennant, University of Birmingham; Nando Sigona, University of Birmingham
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The Empire Windrush, photographed a few years after its famous journey from Jamaica to Tilbury Docks.
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James Procter, Newcastle University
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Rachel Pistol, University of Exeter
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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