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IMOBastani: Theresa May Must Resign

Windrush Brits are being detained and deported and it is a disgrace. When will Theresa May have the dignity to resign? For more articles, videos and podcasts as part of our migration focus head to novaramedia.com/focus/migration

5 Reasons Global Free Movement Isn’t Such a Bad Idea

Aisha Dodwell

Arguing for fewer immigration controls has become an invitation for abuse and ridicule. Here are five reasons global free movement and open borders isn't actually such a bad idea.

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Novara FM: On Migration and the State: Lea Ypi

On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Lea Ypi, professor in political theory at the LSE to discuss ways of thinking about migration, what it tells us about the state and the possibility of an emancipatory cosmopolitanism.

Migration Focus: Migration Focus

Each year, thousands of people die trying to reach Europe. In Britain, Theresa May is revoking migrants' right to free healthcare, detaining people indefinitely and trying to quietly deport a generation of Windrush migrants who have lived in the country for decades. It’s clear that migration needs to be a priority for the left. Stay tuned this week as Novara Media looks at the topic in depth.

The Italian Election Shows the Left’s Most Difficult Task Is Winning the Argument on Migration

Paul Mason

Gone are the days when the European left can hope to gain from forming alliances around the political centre, but quelling the rise of authoritarian populism means winning the argument on migration, argues Paul Mason.

Novara Docs: The Cargo Women of Melilla

Embedded in the Moroccan coast, the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla represent Europe’s southernmost border. There is no formal customs agreement between these two autonomous cities and Morocco, giving rise to a system where goods are smuggled across the border as personal luggage to avoid customs charges and taxes. The burden of this work […]

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.

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.

5 Reasons Climate Change is a Feminist Issue

Clare Hymer and Maddy Hodgson

From the murder of indigenous women fighting resource extraction to carbon footprint reduction initiatives that focus largely on the domestic sphere, climate change is a crisis that is fundamentally gendered. Here are five reasons climate change is a feminist issue.

Interview: Interview with Asad Rehman

As part of Novara Media's Climate Justice focus week Dalia Gebrial interviewed executive director of War on Want Asad Rehman. They discussed COP23, migration, the Labour manifesto and more.

Migration and the Labour Party: Conference’s Unanswered Questions

Dalia Gebrial

Despite an energised Labour conference, one unresolved issue stands out: should the Labour party defend and extend freedom of movement post-Brexit?

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.

Long Read: Mapping Dystopia: The Hidden Shame of Fortress Europe

Marienna Pope-Weidemann

With warnings that as many as one million migrants are already on the way to to Libya and Europe from countries across Africa, Europe's refugee crisis seems set to get even worse. As one of the wealthiest countries in the world, Britain has the wherewithal to really help. But, more interested in shirking than sharing responsibility, it might just be the worst of them all.

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.

Long Read: Ahmad and the Theatre: Life in the Refugee Squats of Athens

Federico Annibale

Federico Annibale talks to migrant in Athens, where squats provide an alternative to the sometimes harsh and humiliating conditions in refugee camps.

Novara FM: Reclaiming Feminism: Sex, Work & Womanhood

Eleanor Penny & Ash Sarkar are joined by Lola Okolosie and Juno Mac to discuss the failings of liberal feminism, and how to build a more radical movement that centres the lives of marginalised women.

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.

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