Growing up in England was hard,but the domestic Office made everything so much worse when they assign me on a planeI was 27 when I was deported from the UK to Jamaica, so I am not a Windrush migrant – but my great grandparents were. They moved to the UK in the early 1950s. Over time, and they invited their children over,and most of my family absorb always lived in England.
That’s the thing with Jamaicans: there’s as many of us abroad as “back domestic”, and migration is a way of life. Or rather, or migration is a means of survival. Our families are transnational – we live between places. And so when my mum moved to the UK,in 2000, she sent for me two years later.
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Source: guardian.co.uk