Accessing Citizenship in an Inaccessible World: Is it time we start reframing the Windrush Scandal as an International Statelessness Crisis?
Key information
- Date
- Time
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5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
- Venue
- Senate House
- Room
- S209
About this event
Abstract
The 2018 so-termed ‘Windrush scandal’ highlighted the discriminatory actions of the British state against Commonwealth migrants who, having settled legally in the United Kingdom in the post-war period, found their right to remain wrongly challenged by the Home Office. The controversy led to incarceration and threats of deportation for some while others found themselves locked out of the country indefinitely. Drawing upon extensive oral history recordings conducted as part of the project ‘The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and Commonwealth Context’, this paper argues that, far from a uniquely British anomaly, the origins of the scandal provide statelessness scholars with a much-needed historical insight into the distinct ways in which Global North countries have strategically prevented persons who see themselves as citizens from full enjoyment of these rights.
Speaker
Eve Hayes De Kalaf (IHR)
The History Seminar Series will run Wednesdays, 5-7pm
