Amelia Gentleman: The Windrush Betrayal

Presented by: Kenilworth Arts Festival

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0	KENILWORTH: The Priory Theatre
P	Saturday 21st September, 2019
N	7:00pm

Event information

Last year, it emerged that thousands of people had been wrongly classified as illegal immigrants; some of them were deported, others lost their homes and their jobs. What united them was that they had all arrived in the UK from the Commonwealth as children in the 1950s and 1960s. The ‘Windrush Scandal’, as it became known, revealed some deeply disturbing truths about modern Britain, and its exposure had a profound impact on British politics. We are honoured to be able to welcome multi-award-winning journalist Amelia Gentleman, whose tenacious investigative and campaigning efforts thrust the scandal into the public domain, to tell the story of ‘The Windrush Betrayal’. Amelia will be speaking about the political and historical context of the scandal, sharing individual stories of those caught up in it, and reflecting on what it felt like to be working as a journalist, trying to understand why law-abiding elderly people were being deported, detained and made homeless by government policies.

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