Context: Recently,the UK Government has apologised for the Windrush Scandal which involved Windrush generation being wrongly detained or deported for being illegal immigrants.

About Windrush Scandal

• The Windrush scandal is a 2018 British political scandal concerning the Windrush Generation who were wrongly detained, denied legal rights, and some were wrongly deported from the UK.
• From those roots it developed into a narrative of citizenship, Britishness, immigration policy and British party politics. The lives of the “Windrush generation” became pawns in a game of immigration numbers.

About Windrush Generation:

• The Windrush generation refers to the immigrants who were invited to the UK between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries such as Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados. 
• The name derives from the ship MV Empire Windrush, which on June 22, 1948, docked in Tilbury, Essex, bringing nearly 500 Jamaicans to the UK.
• The immigrants came at the invitation of the British government, which was facing a labour shortage due to the destruction caused by World War II.
• They are referred to as Windrush Generation which relates to a ship named ‘Windrush’, which brought them to the UK shores in 1948.
• While a large proportion of them were of Jamaican/Caribbean descent, they also included Indians and other South Asians.
• The 1971 Immigration Act gave Commonwealth citizens who were already living in the UK indefinite leave to remain.