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Yarl’s Wood Hunger Strike: 120 Detainees Refuse Food in Protest Against Home Office

Charlotte England

Demands include an end to indefinite detention and charter flights, an amnesty for people who have been in the country for more than ten years and for those who arrived as children, decent food, better access to healthcare, and that LGBT asylum-seekers are believed and treated with respect.

On the sixth of February 2014, the Guardia Civil fired rubber bullets at African migrants trying to swim into the Spanish-controlled Moroccan city of Ceuta. At least 14 deaths were recorded. Four years later campaigners marched against the callous disregard for life at Europe’s borders. A Film by Gosia Juszczak & Darío Unai Cristóbal Pulido

Eugenics Is Not a Fringe Issue – It Influences UK Immigration Policy

Beth Davies-Kumadiro

It recently came to light that Toby Young was an attendee at a eugenics conference secretly held at UCL last year. But far from being a fringe issue, eugenics has worrying links to UK immigration policy, writes Beth Davies-Kumadiro.

Surround Yarl’s Wood: We Must Keep On Demanding an End to Immigration Detention

Charlotte England

We went to the 12th surround Yarl's Wood demonstration outside the immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire. But despite a recent abuse scandal, an increase in detention deaths, and a charter flight the day before, the turnout was small and the mood different to past protests.

Labour and Migration: No More Racing to the Bottom

Maya Goodfellow

While Labour is now adamantly anti-austerity, it's time to shift the framing of migration in an equally dramatic way, writes Maya Goodfellow.

G4S is Using Art by Detainees and Prisoners to Boost Its Public Image

Joe Lo

A private security firm that runs some of the worst immigration removal centres and prisons in the country has partnered with an arts charity to put on an exhibition of work by inmates and detainees.

Corbyn Is Wrong to Indulge Migration Myths – Free Movement Must Be Defended

Caroline Lucas

Giving up on freedom of movement is a huge backwards step, and being a nice guy shouldn't excuse Jeremy Corbyn for pandering to baseless myths on migration, argues Green co-leader Caroline Lucas.

What the Casey Review Got Wrong (and Right) About Migrant Women’s Social Exclusion

Charlotte Watson

The Casey Review into migrants' 'integration' into British society highlighted some real problems, but it placed undue blame on Muslim communities, and missed the bigger barriers that migrants face in the UK.

Long Read: “Target/Tackle”: A Hostile Environment for the Homeless

North East London Migrant Action

Three of the UK’s biggest homelessness charities are collaborating with Home Office immigration enforcement teams on the detention and deportation of European rough sleepers.

Trade Unions Need to Embrace Freedom of Movement, Not Scapegoat Migrant Workers

Malone

The condition of workers is back on the agenda, but there is only one legitimate concern that we are allowed to have: migration. Low pay and bad housing are too often blamed on migrants, not bosses or landlords. How should trade unions respond?

3 Ways Hamburg is Innovating in Response to the Migrant ‘Crisis’

Caitlin Vito

While political responses to immigration tend towards building walls and border controls, the city of Hamburg is leading the way in providing innovative and pragmatic responses to the influx of refugees and asylum seekers to European countries.

No Patient is Illegal: Fighting Borders in the NHS

Erin Dexter

This week, migrant activists protested changes to UK law, which will see healthcare workers co-opted as agents in the continuing assault on the rights and lives of UK migrants. Yesterday, a group of protesters dressed as patients in hospital gowns, doctors in scrubs, and border guards blocked the path of those heading into work at the Department […]

Homelessness charities are sharing information with the Home Office and local councils are operating 'joint visits' with immigration enforcement teams in a collaborative effort to deport more European rough sleepers, a report has found. Here's what you need to know about this new racist attack on vulnerable migrants and the fight back against it.

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Yarl’s Wood Hunger Strike: 120 Detainees Refuse Food in Protest Against Home Office

Charlotte England

No More Deaths at Sea

Surround Yarl’s Wood: We Must Keep On Demanding an End to Immigration Detention

Charlotte England

Labour and Migration: No More Racing to the Bottom

Maya Goodfellow

G4S is Using Art by Detainees and Prisoners to Boost Its Public Image

Joe Lo

Corbyn Is Wrong to Indulge Migration Myths – Free Movement Must Be Defended

Caroline Lucas

What the Casey Review Got Wrong (and Right) About Migrant Women’s Social Exclusion

Charlotte Watson

Long Read: “Target/Tackle”: A Hostile Environment for the Homeless

North East London Migrant Action

Trade Unions Need to Embrace Freedom of Movement, Not Scapegoat Migrant Workers

Malone

3 Ways Hamburg is Innovating in Response to the Migrant ‘Crisis’

Caitlin Vito

No Patient is Illegal: Fighting Borders in the NHS

Erin Dexter

Long Read: Two Months Under the Executive Order: Whiteness, the Muslim Ban, and Me

A Revoked Migrant

Homelessness Charities and Local Councils are Helping Immigration Teams Deport EU Rough Sleepers

Luke Sheldon

Long Read: ‘Who is the government protecting from what?’: Borders and Backlashes in Australia’s Long Sixties

Jon Piccini

Charter Flight to Jamaica Threatens Mass Removal of Migrants

Eleanor Penny

Why ‘Socialist’ Arguments Against Free Movement Don’t Add Up

Gwyneth Lonergan

Boats, Borders, Brutality: Australia’s Refugee Policy

Scott Wark

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Tag: immigration

Yarl’s Wood Hunger Strike: 120 Detainees Refuse Food in Protest Against Home Office

Charlotte England

No More Deaths at Sea

Eugenics Is Not a Fringe Issue – It Influences UK Immigration Policy

Beth Davies-Kumadiro

Surround Yarl’s Wood: We Must Keep On Demanding an End to Immigration Detention

Charlotte England

Labour and Migration: No More Racing to the Bottom

Maya Goodfellow

G4S is Using Art by Detainees and Prisoners to Boost Its Public Image

Joe Lo

Corbyn Is Wrong to Indulge Migration Myths – Free Movement Must Be Defended

Caroline Lucas

What the Casey Review Got Wrong (and Right) About Migrant Women’s Social Exclusion

Charlotte Watson

Long Read: “Target/Tackle”: A Hostile Environment for the Homeless

North East London Migrant Action

Trade Unions Need to Embrace Freedom of Movement, Not Scapegoat Migrant Workers

Malone

3 Ways Hamburg is Innovating in Response to the Migrant ‘Crisis’

Caitlin Vito

No Patient is Illegal: Fighting Borders in the NHS

Erin Dexter

Long Read: Two Months Under the Executive Order: Whiteness, the Muslim Ban, and Me

A Revoked Migrant

Homelessness Charities and Local Councils are Helping Immigration Teams Deport EU Rough Sleepers

Luke Sheldon

Long Read: ‘Who is the government protecting from what?’: Borders and Backlashes in Australia’s Long Sixties

Jon Piccini

Charter Flight to Jamaica Threatens Mass Removal of Migrants

Eleanor Penny

Why ‘Socialist’ Arguments Against Free Movement Don’t Add Up

Gwyneth Lonergan

Boats, Borders, Brutality: Australia’s Refugee Policy

Scott Wark

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