People on the Move



People on the Move brings you research-based articles and migrant testimony seeking to shift the focus of public debate on migration away from borders, security and control, to developing migration policies that are fairer and more equitable.

See also MigrantVoice on refuge and People Flow.

 

Friday 10th February

Confronting prejudice with charm: migrants in the UK

Nazek Ramadan, 10 February 2012
"We know it’s not easy to confront the tabloid press. We know we’ve taken on a huge challenge; we may make it; we may not. But as migrants, we must deal with it". This is why 100,000 copies of a free newspaper written by migrants will be distributed across the UK next week, says the paper's editor Nazek Ramadan
Tuesday 24th January

Unfair, unsafe and undignified: the treatment of women seeking asylum in the UK

Christel Querton, 24 January 2012
In breach of the government's pledge to make the asylum system sensitive to the needs of women, officials are asking women to disclose information about sex work and abuse in the earshot of queuing strangers, and in front of their own children. This lack of privacy can have disastrous consequences, says Christel Querton
Monday 16th January

The politics of belonging in Britain

Jenny Allsopp, 16 January 2012
'There is no opposite to belonging’: Nira Yuval-Davis in conversation with Jenny Allsopp on religion, migration and the politics of belonging. So is it time to open up the debate and ask what it means to belong 'in' - rather than 'to' - contemporary Britain?
Thursday 12th January

Why migrant mothers die in childbirth in the UK

Ramya Ramaswami, 12 January 2012
Maternal mortality among black African women in the UK is up to seven times higher than it is among white women. Doctors’ surgeries are misunderstanding their obligations to migrant patients, says Dr Ramya Ramaswami
Thursday 22nd December

Migration in Britain: the truth behind the headlines

Ruth Grove-White, 22 December 2011
By restricting entry, settlement and family reunification in the UK now, the UK risks putting off those that it will be seeking to attract in the future, as well as making the process of migration more precarious for all, says Ruth Grove White
Monday 12th December

Bail for immigrants: a presumption of liberty?

Bridget Walker, 12 December 2011
Immigrants in Britain may be detained indefinitely in removal detention centres. Some are held for months, others for years. Bridget Walker welcomes the government's bail guidance for judges, but asks whether it will make any difference
Thursday 1st December

Why can’t we have that? ‘Global civil disobedience’ and the European living laboratory

Luis Cabrera, 1 December 2011
In a response to Daniele Archibugi and Patti Tamara Lenard, the author argues that unauthorized immigrants should be seen as offering a powerful normative challenge to the vast disparities in life chances that are the norm in the current global system. Rather than advocating the open borders approach rejected by both Archibugi and Lenard, however, he argues for more gradual transformations involving deeper, democratically accountable integration between states.
Monday 28th November

Religion, gender and migration: beyond 'obedience vs agency’

Chloé Lewis, 28 November 2011
It is time that debates surrounding religion and migration in the UK move beyond the almost monolithic focus on Islam, recognising the multiple and fluid ways in which religion shapes, and is in turned shaped by, experiences of migration, says Chloé Lewis
Wednesday 23rd November

The tactical cosmopolitanism of migrants

Loren Landau and Iriann Freemantle, 23 November 2011
How do foreign migrants in South Africa's urban estuaries deal with the hostility they regularly encounter? The answer lies in 'tactical cosmopolitanism', say Loren Landau and Iriann Freemantle
Monday 14th November

Migration: breaking the deadlock

Don Flynn, 14 November 2011
As the Global Forum on Migration and Development prepares to meet in Geneva, Don Flynn reports on the attempt to break the deadlock between civil society and governments over rights vs security in migration policy
Thursday 10th November

Unheard and unseen in Britain

Natasha Walter, 10 November 2011
Time and time again I hear from refugee women that they want to work and contribute to British society. A dignified asylum system would be a positive asset; we cannot create an inclusive and cohesive society while we create this subset of excluded, marginalised and desperate individuals, says Natasha Walter
Sunday 30th October

Unmasking the myths of anti-multiculturalism

Ger Mennens, 30 October 2011
If society depicts immigration and immigrants as worthless and useless for the economy, these enemy images will lead to a hostile attitude towards all newcomers. The breach between locals and immigrants will become deeper and this soon undermines the social cohesion of any society.
Wednesday 19th October

Searching for accountability in EU migration-management practices

Polly Pallister-Wilkins, 19 October 2011
The uprisings in North Africa, the subsequent increase in migrants crossing the Mediterranean and the cataclysmic predictions about an end to the Schengen acquis has highlighted a hitherto under-investigated policy practice of the EU: migration-management. Polly Pallister-Wilkins scrutinizes current practices in search of accountability.
Tuesday 18th October

Possible 'peak population’: a world without borders?

Danny Dorling, 18 October 2011
Forecasts of apocalyptic population growth could be wrong. Danny Dorling argues that there is a possibility that we are headed for 'peak population' and that those of us advocating for a world without borders have reasons to be optimistic
Friday 14th October

The lonely death of Jimmy Mubenga

Jerome Phelps, 14 October 2011
The man shouting for help was a deportee, a figure hopelessly removed from the mundane normality of international flight. An unbridgeable gulf separated him from the passengers sitting in front of him and across the aisle. Jimmy Mubenga's role was to be a non-person, to disappear from the UK and be forgotten
Tuesday 4th October

Labour's immigration muddle, and a conference of confusion

Sunder Katwala, 4 October 2011
The Labour Party doesn't know what to do or say about immigration. Last week's conference was a case in point, as two leading thinkers offered radical proposals for tightening immigration that even they admitted are unworkable.
Monday 26th September

Family Migration – don't fall into the Danish trap

Anne Stoltenberg, 26 September 2011
An ongoing UK Government consultation on immigration policy makes an exemplar of the Danish system. But is Denmark's immigration policy really something to aspire to?

How to protect 'invisible' people

Amal de Chickera, 26 September 2011
Around 12 million people in the world are stateless, and many find themselves locked up for long periods of time under immigration regulations that don’t apply to them. States need to be reminded of their obligations under international human rights law and stop the arbitrary detention of stateless persons, says Amal de Chickera
Thursday 15th September

Beating the Black Country blues

Jenny Morgan, 15 September 2011
On the council estates of post-industrial Dudley, in the British West Midlands, where far-right anti-migration candidates have had some electoral support, local people and migrants are feeling their way to common ground
Friday 9th September

Border control: the unanswered calls

Nina Perkowski, 9 September 2011
We are systematically discouraging the development of a humanitarian regime at sea, accepting death rather than uncontrolled immigration. Saving 'boat people' comes at a cost few are willing to take, says Nina Perkowski
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