MigrantVoice on Refuge

Sunder Katwala , Paul Kingsnorth , Shamser Sinha and Maria Yanovskaya. Four pieces on migration.

When it comes to the salami slicing around which foreigners are deserving and which not, the moral high ground is a treacherous terrain. What is needed is less rhetoric and far more politics.

What turns a bystander into a playwright? And how do you know if you are just preaching to the converted? Only the best will do when you are working with those seeking asylum.

The unsettling effect of immigrants and refugees is a signal of their pivotal global role 

The imminent UK ratification of a European convention which describes women in the sex trade as the victims of trafficking is to be welcomed, not least because it will lead to more prosecutions. Isn't it time that the government criminalised the buyers of these services?

The introduction of an EU Returns Directive demonstrates an official capacity to privilege state interests over those of the individual

We are all implicated in the tragedies that result from shifts in access to healthcare for refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.

Migrants' belief in the American dream has fuelled the nation for years. It shouldn't stop now

Immigration controls trap the excluding society as well as block migrants. Open up to breathe free

The UK's Iraqi asylum seekers are now being forced to return to all areas of Iraq. Are the lives of refugees being used for political gain?

Britain prides itself on a tradition of providing refuge for those fleeing persecution. But asylum policy has undergone many changes through the ages. Here we outline some of the key events in history.

Asylum has a pedigree stretching back to the Greek empire, but many liberal states are still struggling with a central question: how do you reconcile the rights of people, which are universal, and citizens, which are particular?

South Africa's young democracy must meet the test of the wave of anti-foreigner violence

An era of worldwide "people flow" demands radical new thinking on migration

The work of Chinese immigrants in the rich west puts them in a trap with many locked doors