Who is the Windrush generation?


After World War II, in 1945, Britain was left in a labour shortage and destruction of the barrage. As a result, The British Government sent out ads, encouraging and welcoming young West Indians from the British colonies, to migrate to the United Kingdom. Those interested would take positions for excess job vacancies and help in the rebuilding of the British nation. They were persuaded to migrate by the British Nationality Act of 1948, which entitled citizenship and the freedom of residence in the United Kingdom. Thousands of men, women and children left the Caribbean by sea and air for Britain between the late 1940s and early 1960s. Those individuals who migrated to the United Kingdom from the Caribbean during the period were called the Windrush generation. The name “Windrush” stems from the HMT Empire Windrush left the dock in Kingston, Jamaica, on May 24, 1948, and completed its eight thousand miles journey to Tilbury docks in Essex on June 22, 1948. Colin Grant classed the arrival of the Windrush “as the foundation story of mass migration to Britain.” The Windrush was not the first ship to transport passengers from the West Indies to Britain. However, it was the first huge wave of migration after the war.

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