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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 […]

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

A Revoked Migrant

An account of one Iranian-American's experiences in the 2 months since the Trump administration's Muslim Ban was brought into effect. This essay has been anonymised to protect the author's visa status.

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

Luke Sheldon

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.

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

Jon Piccini

As nationalist politicians line up to praise Australia's border policing, Jon Piccini examines the history of its migration policy - and the resistance it engendered - during the 'long sixties' of 1966-72.

Charter Flight to Jamaica Threatens Mass Removal of Migrants

Eleanor Penny

On Wednesday March 8th, a charter flight is due to uproot migrants from their lives in the UK, and fly them to a country that some will never have seen as adults.

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

Gwyneth Lonergan

What actual effect does tightening immigration controls have on the labour market?

Boats, Borders, Brutality: Australia’s Refugee Policy

Scott Wark

Last week’s Muslim ban provoked outrage across the globe. But with the mandatory detention of asylum seekers in offshore camps and forced ‘boat turnbacks’, Australia’s border regime is arguably even worse than Trump’s.

5 Ways May is as Bad as Trump

Steve Rushton

The eyes of the world are on Trump, but are we missing the parallels between his administration and Theresa May's government? From immigration to sexism to climate change, here are 5 ways that May is as bad as Trump.

IMOBastani: Racist Besties: Theresa May and Donald Trump

Theresa May won’t criticise Donald Trump or the Muslim ban. Thats because she agrees with much of his politics.

Long Read: Surviving Hostile Environments: Migrant Families With No Recourse to Public Funds

North East London Migrant Action

North East London Migrant Action reports on the barriers that many migrants face when attempting to access to public services and financial support.

Debating Immigration: A Labour Strategy for Ukip Votes

Gareth Fearn

Rather than pandering to racist narratives in attempting to win back votes from Ukip, the Labour party needs a defiantly pro-immigration debating strategy.

Darren Johnson / iDJ Photography / Flickr.

Long Read: Immigration Detention & Deportation: A View From Jamaica

Luke de Noronha

Indefinite detention and sudden deportation are staples of policing UK borders. Luke de Noronha talks to Jamaican deportees who have been through this system, to find out more about life at the sharp end of UK immigration law.

Sikh Farmers in the Agro Pontino

Federico Annibale

For many migrant Sikh farmers in the southern Italian region of the Agro Pontino, working life means exploitation, degrading conditions, and a lack of job security.

Long Read: What Can We Learn from the Existence and Eviction of the Calais Jungle?

Brush&Bow

The closure of Europe’s largest unregulated refugee camp generated images of desolation and desperation, bolstering a popular narrative of the Jungle as only a problem, and the eviction a solution. But actually longterm volunteers say the camp offered residents a type of support and a sense of community that state asylum systems could learn from.

Long Read: Mining for Red Gold

Campagne in Lotta

Workers in Italy's tomato industry are organising against exploitation that local government has continually failed to tackle.

4 Reasons to Resist the New Immigration Duty in the School Census

Against Borders for Children

Schools are now being used to investigate 'education tourism' as part of the government's campaign to create a hostile environment for migrants. Against Borders for Children believes we can work together to resist the plans.

Novara Docs: Back on the Line: Remembering Grunwick 40 Years On

40 years later, workers, writers and politicians remember the historic 2 year strike led primarily by South-Asian film processing workers at the Grunwick Lab in Dollis Hill, North-west London. How did Grunwick pave the way for further suppression of trade unions and independent worker organisation?

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