Explanation: On 22nd June 1948, the Empire Windrush landed at Tilbury, Great Britain, fetching with her 417 Jamaican immigrants from the West Indies, the foremost of many in the grand incursion of Commonwealth migrants to the mother country. Certainly, Britain has witnessed immigrants move towards her coast before however, this expedition indicated the commencement of a greatly outsized inflow of coloured immigrants than she and her indigenous citizens had ever experienced. As per the Communiqué of Heads of Government, Berlin Conference on Progressive Governance, June 2000:
At a time of great population movements we must have clear policies for immigration and asylum. We are committed to fostering social inclusion and respect for ethnic,…show more content… In the 1960s and ‘70s, the professed cultural gap among these factions and the receiving society was considered to be great – regardless of a shared language and past association – and their incidence in Britain was exceedingly noticeable in a devastating white society. Migration from European countries, on the contrary, was seen to be not as much of demanding, irrespective of the educational, employment and demographic qualities of these…show more content… This binary positioning of the social order in finer and substandard sections was frequently uttered through the idea of a traditionally de-contextualised consistent society into which the immigrants were expected to assimilate. The appearance of multiculturalism in Britain transpired concurrently with these vague postcolonial renovations as the non-white immigration from the Commonwealth was going ahead. Panikos Panayi, in his article “Multicultural Britain: a very brief history”,