Little is acknowledged about the background of kinship care within the tumultuous life journeys that brought the swath of Caribbean migrants to the shores of Britain. Kinship care - when children cannot who live with their parents are raised by family and friends. Caribbean migrants responded to the call from the ’Mother Country’, to help rebuild Britain after the second World War.
Many of the thousands who arrived took up work in transport, manufacturing, and the NHS, much of which still holds true today.
This of course was punctuated with the fact that the welcome signs read:
NO BLACKS……NO DOGS……NO IRISH.
A stark reminder of the challenges that were to be overcome, a dog can be recognised, the Irish can adapt and blend, but for blacks there was no hiding place.
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