ABSTRACT The arrival of the Empire Windrush in 1948 has been cemented as a mythical central symbol for immigration in histories of modern Britain. This article traces the growth and impact of the ‘Windrush-as-origins’ myth through study of its depiction in British newspapers. It demonstrates the contradictions raised and seemingly ignored by such portrayals of migration, as well as the issues caused by the manufactured centrality of this constructed origin story for those who do not neatly fit into a simplistic narrative of the ‘irresistible rise of multi-racial Britain’ since World War II.

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“1997 年没人听说过 Windrush”：英国报纸中“Windrush 叙事”的兴起

摘要 帝国 Windrush 于 1948 年的到来已成为现代英国历史上一个神话般的移民中心象征。本文通过研究其在英国报纸上的描述，追溯了“风潮起源”神话的发展和影响。它展示了这种对移民的描绘所引发和似乎被忽视的矛盾，以及由这个构建的起源故事的人为中心引起的问题，这些问题对于那些不完全符合“多种族英国不可抗拒的崛起”的简单叙述的人来说'自二战以来。