From the Windrush Generation to the ‘Air Jamaica generation’: local authority support for families with no recourse to public funds

Over the past year, immigration has been a continued focus of policy debates in the global north, with governments in Hungary and Italy elected on openly anti-immigration and ‘welfare chauvinist’ platforms. On the other side of the Atlantic the US federal government family separations policy has also been a source of fierce dispute. In the UK, the potential implications of Brexit for EU migrants in the UK and the treatment of the children of the ‘Windrush Generation’ under the hostile (or ‘compliant’) environment has caused particular controversy and the precipitated the resignation of the Home Secretary.

Citation

Jolly, A. (2019) From the Windrush Generation to the ‘Air Jamaica generation’: local authority support for families with no recourse to public funds, in Heins, E., Rees, J. and Needham, C. (eds.) Social policy review 31: Analysis and debate in social policy, 2019, pp. 129-150. Bristol: Policy Press.

Type

Chapter in book

Language

en

Series/Report no.

Social Policy Review 31

ISBN

9781447343981

Collections

Institute for Community Research and Development