Tag: refugees

What Is the Hostile Environment?

British children sleeping on night buses or in storage units, torture survivors required to pay upfront for medical treatment, these are just some of the consequences of Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’. In this explainer video; Migrants Rights Specialist Rockhaya Sylla unpacks some of the origins and repercussions of this harmful set of policies.
A Progressive Immigration Policy?
If we get a left-wing Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn, they will have an immigration system, and what that will look like matters - for migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. Maya Goodfellow discusses how we might get there.
Refugees in Indonesia and Iraq Condemn Western Indifference
Coverage of the 'refugee crisis' tends to focus on the West, particularly on Europe, but none of the seven countries worldwide to host over half a million refugees are in the EU or North America. Instead, most refugees live on the periphery, confined to squalid, brutal detention centres and stripped of even the scant protection afforded to asylum-seekers on European shores.
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
Can America’s Sanctuary City Model Work in the UK? A North London Borough is About to Find Out
Inspired by the sanctuary cities that refuse to enforce Trump’s racist immigration laws in the US, residents in north London are lobbying their council to defy and oppose Theresa May’s hostile environment policies and make their borough safe for migrants.
How Power Hungry Politicians and the Far-right Are Turning Italy Against Refugees
For years, the liberal left has thought of Italy as a humane country where refugees are welcomed. But following a series of attacks on African migrants, this appears to have suddenly changed. Dig a little deeper however, and it quickly becomes clear that far-right violence didn't rise out of nowhere, it was inspired by a toxic politics of race in Italy that has been worsening since the economic crash of 2008. Hsiao-Hung Pai reports from Sicily.
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.
Solidarity With the Yarl’s Wood Hunger Strikers

Women in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre have now been on hunger strike for nearly two weeks. Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott expresses her solidarity with their fight for adequate healthcare provision, for improved legal access and an end to indefinite detention.
It’s Not Australia Day, It’s Invasion Day – and Its Violent Legacy Lives On
No matter what anyone says, Australia Day isn’t about celebrating 'diversity' or 'multiculturalism' - it’s about whitewashing state violence against oppressed peoples past and present, writes Latoya Rule.
Ghettoes of Europe: The Private Landlords Making Billions From Refugee Shelters in Berlin
Refugees live in roofless, partitioned rooms without privacy or basic facilities, in isolation on the edge of the city. Despite high rates of depression and suicide, the authorities keep cramming more people in, benefiting only the private companies and individuals who run these mass shelters for profit.
Falling Between the Gaps: Two-Tiered Humanitarian Aid System Leaves Non-Refugees Desperate
The response to the drought in Ethiopia’s Somali region is under severe strain due to the vagaries of domestic and international humanitarian aid processes that favour refugee drama over the nuances of internally displaced persons.
Mapping Dystopia: The Hidden Shame of Fortress Europe
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.
Boats, Borders, Brutality: Australia’s Refugee Policy
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.
What Can We Learn from the Existence and Eviction of the Calais Jungle?
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.  
5 Things That Won’t Happen If Britain Leaves the EU
The EU referendum has been characterised by misinformation and opportunism. What would Brexit really mean for the 'refugee crisis', the UK economy and the future of the EU?
The Cold Genocide of the Refugees
Sunday Long Read: Is Europe's treatment of refugees beginning to take on a genocidal form?
Why Is the British Government Using Its Aid Budget to Keep People in Poverty?
The UK government pitches its international aid deals as win-win, but increasingly aid is being used to advance British interests at the expense of the world's poor and displaced, writes Diane Abbott.
Britain’s Involvement in Yemen: A Silent Role in a Forgotten War
Revelations that the British military has been directly involved in drone strikes in Yemen underscores the fact that one year on from the start of the conflict, Britain continues to be complicit in the largely-ignored war in the country.