Waterloo station statue to highlight discrimination
London – Jamaican artist Basil Watson will design a new national monument to the “Windrush” generation of Caribbean migrants who moved to Britain following World War II, the UK government announced yesterday.
The decision to erect the memorial follows a scandal which first emerged in 2017 and caused much soul-searching about racism in Britain.
Thousands of Britons of Caribbean origin, who arrived legally between 1948 and early 1970s, were wrongly detained or deported under the Conservative government’s hardline immigration policies. Ministers have since apologised and launched a compensation scheme.
The monument will be unveiled next year at London’s Waterloo station. –