Windrushとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Windrush

1. A river in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, England, a tributary of the Thames.
2. A village and civil parish in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, named after the river (OS grid ref SP1913).
3. The first wave of immigration of British African-Caribbean people in the 1940s and 1950s.
   • 2022 June 23, Floella Benjamin, What Are You Doing Here?: My Autobiography, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:

     It could also help counteract the widespread ignorance about why there are Caribbean people living in Britain in the first place, highlighting the fact that we were invited to come, and the contribution we've made to the nation, not just since Windrush but from the time the Atlantic slave trade began over four hundred years ago.

4. The Windrush scandal; the wrongful deportation of British citizens from the UK in the 2010s, especially of Caribbean immigrants belonging to the Windrush generation.
5. The Windrush line on the London Overground.

派生語

• Windrusher
• Windrush generation

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