The Windrush betrayal : exposing the hostile environment /
Amelia Gentleman.
- xi, 335 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs (some colour)
'Updated with a new afterword."-- On back-cover.
A person with no leave to remain -- Five weeks' detention and a ticket to Jamaica -- Hidden lives -- £54,000 -- We are here because you were there -- A hostile environment -- Whistleblowers -- Frightening people to leave -- Hunting for proof -- A political explosion -- Hostile becomes compliant -- What good is an apology when you're dead? -- Deportation -- Postscript -- Afterword.
"How do you pack for a one-way journey back to a country you left when you were eleven and have not visited for fifty years? Amelia Gentleman's expose of the Windrush scandal - where thousands of British citizens were wrongly classified as illigal immigrants, with life-shattering consequences - shocked the nation and led to the resignation of the home secretary. Here, Gentleman tells the full story for the first time."--
9781783351855
Great Britain. Home Office.
Black people--Social conditions.--Great Britain West Indians--Social conditions.--Great Britain Immigrants--Government policy.--Great Britain Refoulement--Great Britain. Citizenship--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--Government policy. Great Britain--Politics and government--2010-