The Windrush Generation and Migration from the Caribbean to the UK

by Ash Fowkes- Gajan and Mayukha Rodrigo

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Bibliography:
Grace Aneiza Ali, Chapter 4 ‘The Geography of Separation’ and ‘Postface: A Brief History of Migration from Guyana’, in Liminal Spaces: Migration and Women of the Guyanese Diaspora, pp. 69-82 and pp. 203-204.
Roberta Bivins,“The people have no more love left for the Commonwealth”: Media, Migration and Identity in the 1961-62 British Smallpox Outbreak", Immigrants and Minorities, 25 (November 2008), pp. 263-289.
Kennetta Perry, "Undoing the Work of the Windrush Narrative", History Workshop Online (2018).
Linda McDowell, "How Caribbean migrants helped to rebuild Britain", The British Library (4^th October 2018).
Charlotte Williams, ‘A very ‘British’ welfare state? ‘Race’ and racism’ in Changing Directions of the British Welfare State, pp. 141-159.

Fiction, Music and TV
•Andrea Levy, Small Island (Headline Publishing Group 2013)
•Directed by Steve McQueen, Small Axe (2020), available on BBC IPlayer
•Loyle Carner, ‘Georgetown’ from hugo Album (2022), available on streaming platforms
•Works of John Agard (afro-Guyanese playwright)

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