UK noted Windrush day on Monday, a celebration of the contribution of first-generation immigrants, particularly those with a background Afro-Caribbean British life. This year it is a broader accounting means of institutional racism began with the killing of George Floyd. The day after the Empire Windrush, a ship that name near London coupled first cohort of immigrants from the Caribbean bear, who had been invited by the government in Britain for help to move in 1948 to fill a lack job after the second world War. But Windrush Day was not celebrated widely until 2018, in the wake of a scandal of institutional racism in the British government and its deadly consequences for blacks of the Windrush generation. This year, after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and an increase in support for the movement issue Black-life in Britain, the day in the middle of Windrush an even greater account of social structural racism it is marked around the world. The moment is a breeding in the UK. In response to the murder of Floyd, thousands of blacks Lives Matter protesters marched in several cities in British patent early June. Several statues of slave traders and colonialists were, one in Bristol slave traders Edward Colston removed the protesters immersed in the city’s harbor and tossed. Others were from the local and private owners advice. In addition to educational presentations in schools, communities and cities in the U.K. announced Mark instead Windrush day on Monday, Hackney Council in east London, the generation would build in the ethnically diverse neighborhood two sculptures in honor of Windrush. Here’s what to know. Who are the Windrush generation? The “Windrush generation” is a term used to describe people who are in the Empire Windrush and other boats after their arrival, part of helping a wave of migrants, and reshape the UK after World War II wanted to rebuild . It was in 1948, when the British Empire spread, the Parliament approved a law residents of the Commonwealth (former British colonies) just in the UK to live and work are hundreds of thousands of people who came before the immigration rules in 1971 fill half struck a lack of manpower, the reconstruction of war damage in the country, the staff its new national health service for their help and economic growth, such as bus drivers, workers, entrepreneurs and facilitate more. But they encountered a country that has signed the ideas still mostly imperial grandeur, collapsed as the kingdom and the Windrush generation (itself a descendant of slaves once) brought the added prospect of colonial subjugation. Many were victims of racism on British roads. And their presence in the UK has led a political reaction, with a political right a famous speech in 1968 denouncing how to make the whites would be made by the immigrants of the Commonwealth and the new laws prohibiting racial discrimination “of foreigners in their own country. ” What is the Windrush scandal? Many of the new generation Windrush and their descendants are still suffering under the systemic racism in the UK, which is part of the reason Windrush Day is celebrated today. The systemic racism, was discovered in 2018 by Windrush scandal as when the British government was to have unjustly expelled at least 83 members of the Windrush generation, and many more wrongly denied access to government support, because of the political “hostile environment” designed by the government the right to life party in the UK as difficult as possible for illegal immigrants. The Windrush Generation members were in the country legally, but many do not have the documents to prove it, because this identification was not required as long as the government tightened rules. In many cases, people have not changed the rules communicated to a letter telling them to leave the country. In 2018, the government has confirmed at least 11 people since he died were deported wrong. Others have been denied medical treatment potentially life-saving, because they can provide the right documents. An independent investigation commissioned the Parliament Windrush scandal found in March 2020 that the Interior Ministry, which has for immigration and border security is responsible for an “institutional ignorance and carelessness towards the issue of race and the history of the Windrush generation , “leading the year” associated with some elements of the definition of institutional racism in line. ” 2018. Interior Minister at the time, Amber Rudd was reached at the height of the scandal in 2018. But then-Prime Minister Theresa May, the Minister of the Interior from 2010 to 2016 was originally the “hostile environment” policy, remained in his post. What’s Windrush Day? Windrush Day was celebrated first year of Windrush scandal in 2018, as part of a campaign that will take you from community organizer Patrick Vernon more attention the Windrush generation contributions in British life. “A day Windrush allows communities and recognize the whole country and the enormous contribution to honor those who first grounded at Tilbury docks occurred 70 years,” said Mr. Bourne Community Minister in 2018. “And ‘their assets to future generations alive waiting to make sure that we all celebrate the diversity of British history. “2019 the government announced that it would annually provides up to £ 500,000 ($622,000) community groups for events and educational resources. However, despite government support, many organizers say the government still structural racism or atone for their inability to deal with failure. to compensate for the Interior Ministry, a system in 2019 to the Windrush scandal victims. According to official figures, only 5% of the beneficiaries has been paid to date, paid £ 362,996 ($452,000) for 60 persons in the course of a year. image Copyright Images via Getty Images PA-PA Images
Britain celebrates Windrush Day ‘Amid broader Reckoning on race
