Mother Country : real stories of the Windrush children / edited by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff.
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TextPublisher: London : Headline, 2019Description: xxx, 290 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472261915 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century | Society | Society | Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century | Caribbean Area -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 304.8'41'07290922 Summary: Britain was known as the Mother Country: a home away from home; a place that you would be welcomed with open arms; a land where you were free to build a new life. 70 years on, this remarkable book explores the reality of the Windrush experience. It is an honest, eye-opening, funny, moving and ultimately inspiring celebration of the lives of both ordinary and extraordinary people.
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| 304.8 DUF Diasporas / | 304.8 RAC Race, criminal justice, and migration control : enforcing the boundaries of belonging / | 304.809729 MEM Memory, migration and (de)colonisation in the Caribbean and beyond / | 304.8410729 MOT Mother Country : real stories of the Windrush children / | 305.800973JAC Whiteness of a different color : European immigrants and the alchemy of race / | 305 HOL Global inequalities / | 305 IDE Identity and difference / |
Originally published: 2018.
Britain was known as the Mother Country: a home away from home; a place that you would be welcomed with open arms; a land where you were free to build a new life. 70 years on, this remarkable book explores the reality of the Windrush experience. It is an honest, eye-opening, funny, moving and ultimately inspiring celebration of the lives of both ordinary and extraordinary people.
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