Before Windrush: Britain’s long relationship with the Caribbean
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The Push Factor That Motivated People to Come to Britain
When did people from the Caribbean start arriving in Britain? What was motivating them to go? Was it a pull factor that they'd been taught, as you say, that Britain was this incredible place? Or was it a push factor that the situation in the Caribbean had been left economically ruined? We actually start seeing people going from the Caribbean to Britain quite early, even as early as the 1700s.
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