Introduction Main focus To explore the coloniality of UK immigration policies and attitudes to its former colonies and how such policies and attitudes are resisted using Windrush as a case study. Reference: Use the content of presentation by law lecturer Colin Bob Semple to elaborate. Include that the resistance is coming from the contestations of Windrush coming from voices of reparatory justice and how such campaigns are influencing groups who are campaigning around Windrush. Also include a statement about the Ghurkas in the same context. Gus Johns piece below is about resistance, Kehinde Andrews piece is about resistance to dominant narratives. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/18/national-windrush-day-theresa-may-generation The following pieces from the Centre for Reparations Research and Hilary Beckles interventions are about resistance. https://www.reparationresearch.org/britains-long-arc-injustice/ https://www.reparationresearch.org/centre-for-reparation-research-wants-justice-for-the-windrush-generation/ The petition below initiated by Cleo Lake, Lord Mayor of Bristol is resistance the Windrush narrative https://www.change.org/p/home-office-we-demand-an-immigration-amnesty-for-commonwealth-citizens Esther Stanford as the spokesperson on behalf of the Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March Committee which marches from Windrush Square in Brixton, which 1000s attend, is about resistance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ykt4h1UwFk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDUe4c7y3P0 These are some alternative sources; Walter Mignolo is a key theorist. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502380601162498 https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~marto/coloniality.htm https://www.unc.edu/~aescobar/wan/wanquijano.pdf Explore community advocated proposals to ensure the non repetition of windrush related violations.
