It will be interesting to see exactly which customs the Vatican is going to allow from the past rich five centuries of Anglican worship, life and thought.
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MigrantVoice on RefugeIn a special feature to mark Refugee Week 2008, openDemocracy ran a short project to bring unheard voices, new ideas and testimony of the lived experiences of refugees in Britain into the public debate. MigrantVoice incorporated a multiauthored blog, podcasts, and a substantial article debate including contributions from Saskia Sassen and Philippe Legrain, and edited by Rosemary Bechler. Partnerships with Sheffield's City of Sanctuary and the Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum (MRCF) based in west London added valuable new topics and voices to the discussion. You can access the blog, read the article series, and listen to the podcast for World Refugee Day here. Ayesha Saran, reflecting on her
experience at the recent party conferences, asks whether the Conservatives
could detoxify immigration politics.
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.
A special podcast from Sheffield's City of Sanctuary, marking Refugee Week. Listen now
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
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