After the Second World War, the United Kingdom invited thousands of British-Caribbeans to help rebuild the battered country. Named after one of the first ships to carry them, the Windrush Generation and their families would live and work in the U.K. without issue for decades. Then in 2012, many of them found themselves losing rights and access to healthcare—and even being deported.

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