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Windrush generation
Extracted from the Wikipedia article British African-Caribbean people.
The "Windrush generation"
'Windrush generation' is used to refer to people from across the former British Empire who migrated to Britain from the British Commonwealth, from 1948, with the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush, until 1 January 1973 when the Immigration Act 1971 was implemented on the same day as the UK's accession to the European Economic Community (EEC).