OCR GCSE English Literature · J352
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Caribbean migrants who settled in Britain from 1948 to the early 1970s, named after the ship Empire Windrush.
Revise: ContextPinnock grew up in Islington, the daughter of Jamaican parents from the Windrush generation. Her mother migrated to Britain in 1959, following her husband-to-be, who had saved for her passage. After their marriage broke down, she became a single parent to four children at a time when divorce carried social stigma.
- Revise: Migration and home
Caribbean migrants who arrived in Britain between 1948 and 1971, named after the Empire Windrush, which arrived at Tilbury on 22 June 1948.