Windrush Generation (1 Jan 1948 Jahr – 1 Jan 1970 Jahr)

Beschreibung:

The British Nationality Act 1948 gave citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies status and the consequent right of settlement in the UK to everyone who was at that time a British subject by virtue of having been born in a British colony.The act and encouragement from British government campaigns in Caribbean countries led to a wave of immigration. Between 1948 and 1970, nearly half a million people moved from the Caribbean to Britain, which in 1948 faced severe labour shortages in the wake of the Second World War. Those who came to the UK around this time were later referred to as "the Windrush generation". Working age adults and many children travelled from the Caribbean to join parents or grandparents in the UK or travelled with their parents without their own passports.

Having a legal right to come to the UK, they neither needed nor were given any documents upon entry to the UK, nor following changes in immigration laws in the early 1970s. Many worked or attended schools in the UK without any official documentary record of their having done so, other than the same records as any UK-born citizen.