Imperial Narcotic
Neal Ascherson, 18 November 2021
We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire
by Ian Sanjay Patel.
Verso, 344 pp., £20, April 2021,978 1 78873 767 8 Show More
by Ian Sanjay Patel.
Verso, 344 pp., £20, April 2021,
“... Empire Windrush, bringing eight hundred Caribbean passengers to Britain, docked at Tilbury on 21 June 1948, while the act was still going through Parliament. Here again, myth has fogged up the truth. It’s vaguely believed that Britain deliberately recruited Jamaicans to relieve the desperate postwar labour shortage. But the opposite was true. Although one ... ”