The Windrush generation

The Windrush generation :

AS A HISTORIAN YOU are going to speak on the radio:

- EXPLAIN THE BACKGROUND OF THE WINDRUSH GENERATION

- SAY more ABOUT THE WINDRUSH SCANDAL

- CONVINCE PEOPLE THAT THEY SHOULD SUPPORT A COMPENSATION COMPAIGN

Time : between 1.30 and 2.30 minutes.

Topic : The Windrush generation

Content : cultural, historic, political context + recent happenings + consequences.

Grammar : use have be V-ing (have been doing), have V-en (have done), passive voice (was / were detained)

> the purpose of an action (to, in order to find ….)

Methods:

/ Explain the background of these people. Tell what happened to them recently.

Who are they ?

On 22nd of June , in 1948, a boat , named “empire windrush”, came to London.

He transported 492 Jamaicains , came here to work.

Indeed , it’s the end of the second world war and the united kingdom was destroyed.

The UK needed people to work and rebuild this country.

They appealed to the Jamaicans and promised them a new and better life

They have been came here with a lot of hopes

Five hundred thousand workers came in Britain between 1948 and 1973

It's this workers who have been calling Windrush generation in reference to the boat

They had been promised a better life and arrived there they suffered discrimination

They all arrived on British soil with the right to legally reside if one of the parents had an official document

50,000 people are at risk of deportation due to stronger migration policy on the part of theresa may

Indeed , with this new migration policy , the windrush generation need officials papers to prove their right of residence

But , they don’t have it because their parents are dead .

So , a lot of them have been losting their jobs and can’t have access to the medical service

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