In the last two decades, the UK has deported thousands of people to Jamaica, many of whom left that country as children and grew up in the UK. Luke de Noronha talks to Alice Bloch about his moving and urgent study of four such young men. How have racism and inequality shaped their lives? What hope remains? And why does language matter when we talk about ‘foreign criminals’? A conversation about borders and exclusion, citizenship and listening. For readers of Paul Gilroy, Gary Younge, Amelia Gentleman, Les Back and Reni Eddo-Lodge.

Hosts: Alice Bloch and Samira Shackle
Producer: Alice Bloch
Music: Danosongs

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Further reading:
 
‘Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of Deportation to Jamaica (2020) Luke de Noronha

‘The Windrush Betrayal’ (2019) Amelia Gentleman

‘Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race’ (2017) Reni Eddo-Lodge

‘Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands’ (2017) Stuart Hall, with Bill Schwarz

‘Rethinking Racial Capitalism’ (2018) Gargi Bhattacharyya

‘Us and Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Control’ (2013) Bridget Anderson

‘There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack’ (1987), Paul Gilroy

‘Teaching Racial Tolerance’ (1972) Research Report, New Humanist Magazine