On 23 April, the UK Government's former Home Secretary,
Amber Rudd, announced that members of the 'Windrush
generation' who arrived in the UK before 1973 will be eligible
for free UK citizenship. As well as not having to pay the fees
associated with a citizenship application, those affected will not
be required to pass the Knowledge of Language and Life in the UK
test. The Home Office has also confirmed that a compensation scheme
will be set up for individuals who have suffered loss or damage
because of their inability to evidence their right to be in the
UK.
The Windrush generation refers to those migrants who arrived in
the UK between 1948 and 1971. They were named after the ship MV
Empire Windrush, which arrived in Trinity Docks, Essex, on 22 June
1948. The ship brought workers from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago
and other islands, as a response to post-war labour shortages in
the UK, and carried 492 passengers, many of them children. Many of
these new arrivals
