Caribbean governments, led by Jamaica, are beginning to press the British government to address compensation and general assistance issues to Caribbean nationals who have been inhumanely deported or denied re-entry into the United Kingdom because of drastic changes of immigration polices over the decades.
Representation is being made on behalf of a group of thousands of elderly regional citizens who, while in the prime of their lives, were invited to settle in Britain after 1948 to help rebuild the country after World War II. Boats such as the cruise ship the Empire Windrush were sent to Caribbean ports to collect people willing to settle in Britain after the war. They were dubbed the so-called Windrush Generation.
Eager for a change of life from underdeveloped colonies during the colonial era, thousands took up the offer and headed to London and other British ports, taking up jobs as nurses, bus drivers, postal workers and others. Aware that they were nationals of British colonies, many assumed they had been granted automatic legal stays in Britain, but as many would find out in the coming years, changes in the Immigration Act had placed them in the illegal citizens category.
The result is that some were rounded up from homes and jobs in Britain after living there for decades and deported. Others who went back to Jamaica and other countries for weddings, family functions or funerals were surprised to have been denied boarding at regional airports as they attempted to fly back home to Britain after brief Caribbean stays.
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