migration

Articles

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  28 novembre 2020, par siawi3
• UK: Celebrities demand airlines stop mass deportation flight to Jamaica
  28 November 2020, by siawi3

  The open letter is addressed to the bosses of multiple airlines including Hi Fly, Titan Airways, and TUI UK and Ireland. In it more than 90 high-profile figures, campaigners, and activists have urged the companies to decline to operate the planned 2 December flight.

• UK: 296 people died due to ‘the ‘militarisation’ of UK and French borders
  28 November 2020, by siawi3

  “Crossing strategies evolve according to the level of securitisation of the border. The more a crossing point is securitised, and thus inaccessible, the higher the risks and the need for border-crossers to have recourse to a ‘third party”, a smuggler.”

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  29 novembre 2020, par siawi3
• Africa: From the Niger to the Nile
  1 December 2020, by siawi3

  These stories enrich our understanding of intracontinental migrations, and give us tools to connect the modern histories of countries rarely thought about in conjunction, such as Mali and Sudan. They also help us rethink the essentializing of African refugees: historically, seeking refuge on the continent has encompassed a variety of experiences, including West African Muslims who chose to emigrate rather than living under European rule.

• Hong Kong dissident: 100,000 could move to Britain next year
  6 December 2020, by siawi3

  UK took the unprecedented step earlier this year of offering residency to any holder of a British National overseas passport in Hong Kong. Up to three million Hongkongers are eligible for this residency, and according to Nathan, as many as 100,000 people could arrive in the first year.

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  15 décembre 2020, par siawi3
• Australia: Archibald prize 2020: Angus McDonald’s portrait of Behrouz Boochani wins people’s choice award
  17 December 2020, by siawi3

  Portrait depicting ‘strong, confident and peaceful’ Kurdish-Iranian writer and refugee, who spent six years in detention, wins public vote

• UK: How a one-man protest in Tunisia led to Brexit
  18 December 2020, by siawi3

  As the protests in Tunisia grew so they were replicated across the rest of North Africa and eventually across the Middle East. The political instability did, however, move north, where the arrival of migrants primarily into Italy and Greece caused a political panic of a kind not seen in Europe this century. The British public saw all this at an important juncture, just as they were being asked to decide whether or not to remain a part of the European Union.

• Why so many Syrian women get divorced when they move to western countries
  21 December 2020, by siawi3

  Many of the refugee women in question have taken advantage of their new lives in western, secular societies to ask for divorce – often from abusive husbands they had to marry as young girls. They had not been forced to marry the men for religious reasons but often because they came from rural backgrounds where patriarchy (and patriarchal interpretations of Islam) were predominant. The personal status laws in most Arab countries also often deprive women of basic rights such as alimony or custody of their children after divorce.

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