Contact author

About Jenny Phillimore

Jenny Phillimore is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Applied Social Studies at the University of Birmingham in the UK

Articles by Jenny Phillimore

This week’s front page editor

Michael Edwards is editor of Transformation.

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Gender and destitution in the UK

Jenny Phillimore 19 March 2012

The real migration scandal in the UK are the people forced to live without any recourse to public funds. Migrant women who leave violent husbands, and women who have been trafficked into the UK to work in the sex industry, face the additional trauma of destitution, says Jenny Phillimore

Donate here→

Follow us

openDemocracy is an independent global media platform covering world affairs, ideas and culture which seeks to challenge power and encourage democratic debate across the world. Read more...