Culturally Speaking

S5 E3 British Immigration, the Fabric of British Society Part 2

October 12, 2022 Culturally Speaking Season 5 Episode 3
Culturally Speaking
S5 E3 British Immigration, the Fabric of British Society Part 2
Show Notes

Continuing our conversation Immigration in British culture, this week’s episode picks up where we left off in Part 1 with us sharing our families’ experiences of immigration. In Part 2, Janice shares her experience of the handover in Hong Kong in 1997. The Windrush scandal made headlines a few years ago in Britain which saw hundreds of Caribbean immigrants working and living in the UK wrongly targeted by immigration enforcement. The impact post-war migration, like the Windrush generation, had on rebuilding Britain as we know it today is undeniable. However it got us thinking about our experience of racism in the UK,  whether we are desensitised to it and if we feel foreign. A hilarious sidebar into mispronunciations of our names ensued….

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