The Windrush Generation: Fighting to be British
Since January, Channel 4 News has been reporting the plight of the Windrush kids. They came to UK as children, attended British schools, worked British jobs and built British lives. Now thousands of people who arrived in the UK decades ago – in the first wave of Commonwealth immigration in the 1950s and 60s – are living with the threat of deportation.
They came here as children, attended British schools, worked British jobs and built British lives.
Now thousands of people who arrived in the UK decades ago – in the first wave of Commonwealth immigration in the 1950s and 60s – are living with the threat of deportation.
Known as the Windrush generation after the British ship ‘The Empire Windrush’, which travelled from the Caribbean to Tilbury Docks in Essex in 1948, many have made the UK their home for their entire lives.
Channel 4 News has been following the stories of a few of this generation as they fight for their right to be British – a nationality they had always taken for granted.
A new petition on the government’s website calling on the Home Office to grant them an amnesty has attracted more than 23,000 signatures. The Home Office said it would handle applications to stay “sensitively”.
Watch their moving stories below.
They came here as children, attended British schools, worked British jobs and built British lives.
Now thousands of people who arrived in the UK decades ago – in the first wave of Commonwealth immigration in the 1950s and 60s – are living with the threat of deportation.
Known as the Windrush generation after the British ship ‘The Empire Windrush’, which travelled from the Caribbean to Tilbury Docks in Essex in 1948, many have made the UK their home for their entire lives.
Channel 4 News has been following the stories of a few of this generation as they fight for their right to be British – a nationality they had always taken for granted.
A new petition on the government’s website calling on the Home Office to grant them an amnesty has attracted more than 23,000 signatures. The Home Office said it would handle applications to stay “sensitively”.
Watch their moving stories below.
