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Commemorations are underway to mark 75 years since the Empire Windrush landed on British shores.

The ship the Windrush signifies for many the start of mass migration from the Caribbean - where people were encouraged to move to Britain to help rebuild the country post-war, and in return, were given a permanent right to live and work in the UK.

But whilst remembering the contributions made to Britain of that generation, we cannot ignore what's become known as the Windrush scandal - where hundreds of Caribbeans found themselves stateless, denied passports and deported.

Emunah Yishiba Gavriel聽came to Leicester in 1979 from Trinidad via Europe to become a psychiatric nurse.

Like many hundreds of others of her generation, she gradually realised that after a series of home office blunders, she had ceased to exist in the eyes of the state.

She's been telling her story to 麻豆社 Radio Leicester's Jo Hollis.