Windrush Generation: Statue to be displayed in London being designed - CBBC Newsround

Around 500,000 people moved to the UK between 1948 and 1971 from Caribbean countries.

Some of them arrived on a ship called the Empire Windrush in 1948 and in 1971, were told they could stay permanently.

However, the government didn't keep a full record of everyone who had arrived and some of didn't apply for official paperwork like a UK passport.

Thousands of people were children at the time, who had travelled on their parents' passports.

After a change in immigration law in 2012, many of them were told they lived in the UK illegally and they faced being forced to leave the UK.

Without any official record or paperwork, many were unable to prove they had the right to live and work in the UK.

Some people were taken to immigration detention centres and some lost their jobs and homes.

Later the government had to apologise and give compensation to those who had been affected.

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