Key learning points

1. Context refers to historical, social, literary and biographical information.
2. Context should not be presented as isolated facts.
3. Context should be relevant to the analysis and woven in the response.
4. Context should develop your ideas and give an insight into the writer’s purpose and intention.

Keywords

• First generation migrant - A person who was born in one country, but moves to live and establish their life in another country.

• Second generation migrant - People who have grown up in a country that at least one of their parents was not born in.

• Windrush scandal - When many citizens who had migrated to Britain between 1948 and 1973 were facing deportation under a discriminatory immigration system.

• Weave - In relation to context, when you embed it into paragraphs rather than including it as a series of isolated facts.

Common misconception