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Migration, Immigration and Emigration

Louise Shore: Emigrating

During the post war period there were a lot of immigrants from Jamaica: “Between 1948 and 1970 nearly half a million people …

Louise Shore: Race and Gender

Shore had grown up in Jamaica, surrounded by black people. There are no mentions of racism in any form, physical, verbal or …

Pauline Wiltshire: Race and Immigration

“There is good and bad in most people, black or white” (Wiltshire, 1985: 6). Throughout Pauline’s writing, she comments on how coming to England was challenging in terms of adjusting to British culture; her being …

Joe Ayre (b.1910): Migration

To reach the point where you wish to completely start over in life is a sad thought. To have reached this point …