Mother Country
Catherine Hall: The Hostile Environment, 23 January 2020
The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment
by Amelia Gentleman.
Guardian Faber, 336 pp., £18.99, September 2019,978 1 78335 184 8 Show More
by Amelia Gentleman.
Guardian Faber, 336 pp., £18.99, September 2019,
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation
by Colin Grant.
Cape, 320 pp., £18.99, October 2019,978 1 78733 105 1 Show More
by Colin Grant.
Cape, 320 pp., £18.99, October 2019,
Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Become Scapegoats
by Maya Goodfellow.
Verso, 272 pp., £12.99, November 2019,978 1 78873 336 6 Show More
by Maya Goodfellow.
Verso, 272 pp., £12.99, November 2019,
“... but the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763 and the huge expansion of Britain’s empire may have made them increasingly visible. The black presence raised questions about what it meant to have such an empire, one composed of peoples of different ethnicities and religious beliefs. A number of cases of enslaved African men and women who had escaped ... ”