{"id":811,"date":"2018-06-21T12:27:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T11:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/?p=811"},"modified":"2018-12-05T10:28:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T10:28:32","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-be-british","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/2018\/06\/21\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-british\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO AND PODCAST: What does it mean to be British?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d_RReDNx0kw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The 22 June marks 70 years since the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks. The \u2018sons of the Empire\u2019 came not as immigrants, but as British subjects exercising a form of \u201cfreedom of movement\u201d within the borders of the British territories.<\/p>\n<p>But as we fast forward to today,\u00a0three generations later, the Windrush scandal which recently led to the resignation of Home Secretary Amber Rudd, is a stark reminder of this contested history of settlement, integration and exclusion throwing into question what Britishness really means.<\/p>\n<p>In our second episode of Unfiltered, Dr Nando Sigona, Reader in International Migration and Forced Displacement, and April- Louise Pennant, Doctoral Researcher, discuss\u00a0what lessons\u00a0the windrush arrival and scandal can teach us about British identity.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Podcast and further information<\/h3>\n<p>Interested in finding out more? Listen to the full conversation on Soundcloud:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/social-policy\/sigona-nando.aspx\">More about Nando Sigona at the University of Birmingham<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/schools\/education\/postgraduate-research\/profiles\/april-louise-pennant.aspx\">More about April-Louise Pennant at the University of Birmingham<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/\">Back to Social Sciences Birmingham<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 22 June marks 70 years since the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury docks. The \u2018sons of the Empire\u2019 came not as immigrants, but as British subjects exercising a form of \u201cfreedom of movement\u201d within the borders of the British territories. But as we fast forward to today,\u00a0three generations later, the Windrush scandal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/2018\/06\/21\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-british\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VIDEO AND PODCAST: What does it mean to be British?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[189,188,191,81,190,135],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-british","tag-coffee","tag-discussion","tag-identity","tag-scandal","tag-windrush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/socialsciencesbirmingham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}