Episode 54: Stateless Citizen

Gab with Gwen

Today, June 22nd, is Windrush Day in the UK and marks the 72nd anniversary of the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush ship in 1948, landing at Tilbury Docks, about 20 miles from London. These voyagers -- many of them from the island of Jamaica -- were the first large group of West Indian migrants to arrive in the UK. The Windrush generation migrants arrived in Britain legally. Then, the UK government flipped the script changing the requirements to prove citizenship status under tough new immigration laws billed as a "hostile environment" policy. Gwen's cousin @jeromethesinger describes his fight for citizenship as a Windrush descendant born and raised in the UK his entire life.