Diaspora & Migration

After Iraq: Trust Damaged, the Diaspora Demands More

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The second half of 2003 brings the Caribbean community in Britain through the summer of a war it opposed and into a political autumn shaped by the Hutton Inquiry, the Kelly affair, and the continued erosion of trust in the Blair government. Immigration enforcement tightens. In Jamaica, PJ Patterson secures electoral success and Caribbean integration advances, but crime and debt remain urgent concerns.

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A Million March Against War: Caribbean Britain Speaks Out

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The first half of 2003 is defined by the Iraq War: the mass mobilisation against it on 15 February, when up to two million people marched in London in the largest demonstration in British history, and then the war itself, which begins on 20 March despite that opposition. For the Caribbean community, whose post-colonial tradition generates deep scepticism of Western military intervention, the decision to go to war is a profound betrayal by a Labour government it has consistently supported.

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Manchester’s Games, Patterson’s Fourth Term: A Community’s Autumn

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The XVII Commonwealth Games, hosted by Manchester in July and August 2002, bring together the Caribbean athletic world and the diaspora communities of the host nation in a celebration of sporting excellence. Jamaica’s athletes perform with distinction. PJ Patterson wins his fourth consecutive general election in October 2002. And as the year ends, the prospect of a British-American war against Iraq casts a long shadow over a community already alarmed by post-September 11 security legislation.

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