In the twenty-first century it has continued to be perpetuated in the way public figures of colour are still told to ‘go home’ on a daily basis on social networks, in endless talk of ‘second-generation immigrants’ (how can you be an immigrant if you were born here?), in the fact that Shamima Begum, one of three schoolgirls who left London to join the Islamic State group in Syria in 2015, could have her British citizenship casually removed by politicians and in the recent Windrush scandal which saw British subjects who had arrived before 1973, in particular those of Caribbean origin, refused
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