A Look At Migration Through The Book Small Island

The book I read was Small Island by Andrea Levy. superior of the orange prize 2004, levy uses various first mortal narratives to portray the Jamaican social movementment to Great Britain during and particularly after World War two. The book starts with Hortense arriving in England to meet and fit with her newlywed husband Gilbert. At the house of Queenie Bligh, Hortense’s dreams of sumptuosity in England come crashing down as the harsh truth of the war shaken country becomes apparent. Levy then punttracks and tells the inbuilt story leading up to the when Hortense arrives from her childhood. Also included is the back story of Joseph Gilbert and his days in the RAF. This is particularly enkindle to analyse because we can explore when Gilbert first travel to Great Britain as a volunteer, and also when he and Hortense move to live there post war.
World war two marked a significant growth period for dreary immigration to Britain. Colonials arrived Jamaica and the rest of the Caribbean, and also from west Africa. They came predominantly to inspection and repair as wartime workers and volunteers, working as merchant seamen and servicemen in the army, naval forces and air force. In particular Black societies formed on the London, Liverpool and Cardiff docksides.



Post war, even more migrants from the Caribbean, in particular Jamaica arrived in Great Britain (Rose, 2001). Although there was already a black carriage in England prior to 1948, a marked point in their immigration history was June 1948 when the greatest number of immigrants arriving at virtuoso time came on the Empire Windrush. The ship arrived at the Tilbury docks with a total of 492 black passengers, (BCC, 2009 ). These passengers and the following arrival settled in Brixton that has now become a predominantly black district, and following this initial influx there were far more Caribbean migrants through and through the 1950’s and 1960’s, (Rose, 2001). The picture bellow shows some of these migrants still on the Empire Windrush.
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