migration

Articles

• Migration in the UK: CYNICISM & CRUELTY DRESSED UP AS LAW
  14 July 2021, by siawi3

  The problem is the way the immigration debate is framed. Migrants, especially poor ones, whether asylum seekers or economic migrants, often face the charge of being “scroungers” or “queue jumpers”. Many on the right have been only too happy to push such claims. Many on the left, and especially the Labour party, are too frightened of challenging them, fearful of losing electoral support. At the same time, too many on the left view those expressing anxieties about immigration as bigoted or racist.

• Beaten, begging and in hiding: Life for the Afghans the UK left behind
  26 December 2021, by siawi3

  In August, thousands of people who worked for the UK in Afghanistan were left to the Taliban’s mercy. openDemocracy spoke to four still stuck in Kabul

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  28 octobre 2020, par siawi3
• The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship
  5 December 2021, by siawi3

  The Mediterranean Sea, the contributors to this volume claim, has earned its right to be qualified as black in the wake of successive migrants’ and refugees’ crossing, some of which have been particularly tragic.

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  12 mai 2021, par siawi3
• Russie : « Tout recommencer Ă  l’Ă©tranger » ou « rester silencieux » : la nouvelle vie de ces journalistes russes exilĂ©s en Lettonie
  8 juillet 2022, par siawi3

  Menacés par une répression de plus en plus sévère, plusieurs centaines de reporters ont fui la Russie pour rejoindre Riga, la capitale lettone. Un exil nécessaire à la survie du journalisme indépendant russe.

• UK asylum translators are so anti-LGBT+ that even Home Office staff are worried
  20 November 2020, by siawi3

  Official report reveals that interpreters let their anti-LGBT+ views affect their work, harming asylum fairness.

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  15 décembre 2020, par siawi3
• France : Un imam expulsĂ© pour des propos contraires aux « valeurs de la France »
  29 juillet 2022, par siawi3

  Ce « prĂ©dicateur tient depuis des annĂ©es un discours haineux Ă  l’encontre des valeurs de la France, contraire Ă  nos principes de laĂŻcitĂ© et d’Ă©galitĂ© entre les femmes et les hommes ».

• USA: Biden administration detained a record 2.3 million migrants at the US-Mexico border in 2022
  25 October 2022, by siawi3

  Although Biden claims to oppose Title 42 actions against asylum seekers, the administration is aggressively complying with court orders to keep it in place as part of political accommodation with far-right Republicans.

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