The Windrush Scandal in a trans-national and Commonwealth context

跨国和英联邦背景下的疾风丑闻

• 批准号: AH/V010123/1
• 负责人: Philip Murphy
• 金额: $ 72.02万
• 依托单位: University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV010123%2F1
• 关键词: Windrush; Scandal; trans; national; Commonwealth

This three-year research project seeks, for the first time, to produce a scholarly examination of the so-called 'Windrush scandal' within a fully trans-national framework, one that properly considers the agency of a wide variety of official and non-official actors from both sides of the Atlantic and the role of the post-colonial and Commonwealth contexts of international relations. Those people from Commonwealth Caribbean states who arrived in the UK before the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act came into force generally had the right to enter and remain in Britain by virtue of being Citizens of the UK and Colonies (CUKC). The project's key objective is to develop a unique digital research resource of extended interviews on the national and diplomatic activism around the Windrush scandal, supported by digitized government documents from the British archives and Caribbean government records. Oral and archival research methodologies will be combined to explore the links between the apparently distinct spheres of international diplomacy and community activism, providing insights into, on the one hand, unconventional methods of public diplomacy by Commonwealth representatives, and on the other, the ways in which this international support enhanced and amplified community-based campaigning and investigative reporting. Exploring these links will provide the central, overarching focus of the current project. The key outputs will be 60 oral history interviews which will be available electronically and a searchable database of existing oral history resources on the 'Windrush generation'. 30 of the interviews will focus on the response of Caribbean governments and their representatives in London to the legal restrictions imposed on immigration to the UK from the Caribbean from the early 1960s, and the plight of those members of the diaspora community whose right to remain in the UK was challenged by the British state. The other 30 interviews will focus on members of the diaspora community, those who found themselves under threat of deportation or actually deported, and their supporters and legal and political representatives. The interviews will explore the extent to which the complexities and ambiguities of the law governing nationality exacerbated confusion around competing notions of Caribbean and British identity and belonging. They will seek to identify the extent to which members of the diaspora community were aware of changes to their rights and obligations brought about by successive acts of parliament from 1962, and the stages by which it became clear that significant numbers of people were having their right to remain in the UK challenged. This oral history research will be supplemented by archival research in collections in the UK and the Caribbean. Selected documents will be digitized and made available on the project website alongside the recordings of the interviews and supporting explanatory materials including a series of podcasts produced by the project team.In partnership with the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, the team will seek to ensure the broadest possible dissemination, with a special seminar at the BCA for community activists on the project's findings. We will also stage a project 'roadshow' which will visit cities in the UK with significant Caribbean diaspora communities. We will also provide separate seminars aimed at the staff of the FCO, the Home Office and the Caribbean High Commissions in London. We expect the research resources we produce to be widely used by academics and students producing undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations, and our podcasts will be aimed at those outside the academy, with one podcast specifically aimed at pupils taking the OCR History GCSE module 'Migration to Britain, 1000-2010'. Our articles for the British Library's 'Windrush Stories' website will enable us to demonstrate the relevance of our project materials to a range of researchers and educators.

这个为期三年的研究项目旨在首次在一个完全跨国的框架内对所谓的“温德鲁什丑闻”进行学术研究，该框架适当考虑了大西洋两岸各种官方和非官方行为者的机构以及后殖民和英联邦背景下国际关系的作用。在1962年《英联邦移民法》生效之前抵达英国的英联邦加勒比国家的人通常有权凭借英国和殖民地公民身份进入并留在英国。该项目的主要目标是开发一个独特的数字研究资源，对围绕温德鲁什丑闻的国家和外交活动进行深入采访，并得到来自英国档案馆和加勒比政府记录的数字化政府文件的支持。口头和档案研究方法将结合起来，探索国际外交和社区活动的明显不同的领域之间的联系，提供洞察力，一方面，由英联邦代表的公共外交的非常规方法，另一方面，在这种国际支持的方式增强和放大以社区为基础的运动和调查报告。探索这些联系将成为当前项目的中心和首要重点。主要产出将是60个口述历史访谈，这些访谈将以电子方式提供，以及一个关于“温德鲁什一代”的现有口述历史资源的可搜索数据库。30的采访将集中在加勒比各国政府及其在伦敦的代表的反应，对移民从加勒比到英国从20世纪60年代初施加的法律的限制，以及那些散居社区的成员留在英国的权利受到英国政府的挑战的困境。其他30次面谈将侧重于散居国外者社区的成员、那些发现自己受到驱逐威胁或实际上被驱逐的人、他们的支持者以及法律的和政治代表。访谈将探讨国籍法的复杂性和模糊性在多大程度上加剧了加勒比和英国身份和归属的相互竞争的概念的混乱。他们将努力确定散居社区成员在多大程度上意识到自1962年以来议会的一系列法案对其权利和义务的改变，以及在哪些阶段，大量人留在联合王国的权利受到挑战。这项口述历史研究将得到英国和加勒比地区收藏品档案研究的补充。选定的文件将被数字化，并与采访录音和支持性解释材料（包括项目团队制作的一系列播客）一起在项目网站上提供。该团队将与布里克斯顿的黑人文化档案馆合作，寻求确保尽可能广泛的传播，并在BCA为社区活动家举办一场特别研讨会，介绍该项目的调查结果。我们还将举办一个项目“路演”，将访问英国的城市与重要的加勒比侨民社区。我们还将在伦敦为外交和联邦事务部、内政部和加勒比高级专员办事处的工作人员举办单独的研讨会。我们希望我们生产的研究资源被学者和学生生产本科和研究生论文广泛使用，我们的播客将针对那些学院外，一个播客专门针对学生采取OCR历史GCSE模块“移民到英国，1000- 2010”。我们为大英图书馆的“温德鲁什故事”网站撰写的文章将使我们能够向一系列研究人员和教育工作者展示我们项目材料的相关性。