As Brexit negotiations go on, the UK is facing an immigration scandal with the Windrush generation. These are people who moved to Britain from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1971. Many of the kids arrived on there parents’ passports and after decades, are facing issues of being denied services, losing their jobs and even being deported. Host Dan Loney looks at this situation and why Prime Minister Theresa May was forced to apologize with Thom Brooks, Dean of Durham Law School at Durham University, Terri Givens, Provost and Professor of Political Science at Menlo College in California, and Randall Hansen, Interim Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.
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The UK Windrush Immigration Scandal
with Thom Brooks, Terri Givens, and Randall Hansen
May 23, 2018
• 25 min listen
Updated: May 24, 2018
with Thom Brooks, Terri Givens, and Randall Hansen
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