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Now, two years on, she looks back at the impact it had and asks what has changed as Brexit brings the possibility of a repeat for EU citizens living in BritainNever miss a trick from The Big Issue with our weekly newsletter. Earlier in her career, Gentleman was the New Delhi correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and the Paris and Moscow correspondent for The Guardian. Get your copy now from your local vendor or Big Issue Shop Career. Amelia Gentleman is a reporter for The Guardian. Amelia Gentleman will be familiar to Free Movement readers as the Guardian journalist who exposed what has become known as the Windrush scandal.

She was awarded the 2018 Paul Foot Award for her coverage of the Windrush scandal. Some people have been flown back from the Caribbean at the government’s expense after years in exile, others have got their jobs back or been rehoused. Almost two years ago I began to investigate why people in their fifties and sixties, who had arrived in the UK as young children from the Commonwealth, were wrongly being classified as illegal immigrants.

Labour has already warned that this could prove to be “Windrush on steroids”. Amelia has won some of the most prestigious awards in British journalism, including the Orwell Prize, the Paul Foot Award and the Cudlipp Award, with several organisations naming her ‘Journalist of the Year’; her book was long-listed for the Baillie Gifford prize in 2019.
Breaking the Windrush scandal: a tip-off, months of persistence against government evasion… and ultimately the Home Secretary’s resignationAmelia Gentleman is a multi-award winning Guardian journalist, and famously uncovered the scandal of West Indian immigrants and their families being threatened with deportation, subsequently writing ‘The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment’. For most Europeans living here, the process of registration should be very simple, but even if just five per cent of those who need to apply have difficulty with their applications, that could amount to more than 150,000 experiencing problems. It seemed shocking and mystifying.To begin with no one was really able to explain why this was happening. In this in-depth interview, she describes the terrible cost of the government’s failures for the lives of the Windrush community, shares anecdotes about the life-and-death nature of reporting in Russia, and discusses how the freedom of being a feature writer allows her to focus on stories for which she has passion and interest.Lessons learnt from a decade in the editor’s chair – and a bold strategy to take the magazine into the futureThe Beeb’s man in Washington on his front row seat at the “endless show” of the Trump presidencyReflecting on a career in some of the very biggest jobs in UK television, then working with the British royal familyTaking Fox News to task on misinformation and their “destructive influence”‘The Prosecutor’ argues for criminal justice reform, including the way courts engage with the mediaThe infamous blogger reveals the secrets of Hollywood’s biggest celebrity websiteThe inside story on being Tony Blair’s right hand manThe creative process behind four decades penning global bestsellers ©2020 The Big Issue Company Ltd, 113-115 Fonthill Road, Finsbury Park, London, N4 3HH. A huge government compensation scheme was launched in March, which could pay out up to £570m to those affected. But the memory of how that department treated the Windrush generation has made many anxious about making their application.The Guardian reporter was among the first to report on the Windrush Scandal. Her account of what happened, how the scandal developed and why the Windrush generation experienced the problems they did should be compulsory reading for all Home Office ministers and civil servants. The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment is out now (Guardian Faber, £18.99) This article was originally published in The Big Issue magazine. Since 2009, she has been in London, writing features for The Guardian, mainly looking at the impact of government policy. In The Windrush Betrayal, Gentleman tells the story of the scandal and exposes deeply disturbing truths about modern Britain. More than 6,000 previously undocumented people have been given papers proving that they are (and always were) living in the UK legally. She then became a feature writer for the paper, and in late 2017 received an initial email tip-off which led to six months’ work charting the Windrush scandal, leading ultimately to the resignation of the Home Secretary. Earlier in her career, Gentleman was the New Delhi correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and the Paris and Moscow correspondent for The Guardian.

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