“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

About Stuart Crosthwaite

Stuart is a migrant-rights campaigner, writer and organiser in Sheffield after having been a migrant worker. He is currently Secretary of the South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG) and has worked extensively with migrant communities in the area.

Articles by Stuart Crosthwaite

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Francesc Badia i Dalmases is Editor and Director of democraciaAbierta.

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Marked out for attack: living in the UK 'asylum market'

Stuart Crosthwaite 26 January 2016

Private companies took public money to house asylum seekers behind distinctive red doors and make them wear bright shiny wristbands.

‘The company you need to target is G4S’. Opponents form strategic alliance

Stuart Crosthwaite 22 October 2012

Critics of the world's biggest security company are banding together. A report from the Stop G4S Convergence campaign.

'The UK Border Agency is playing a game to scare us'

Stuart Crosthwaite 16 August 2011

If you’ve sought asylum in a distant country, who are the last people you’d want to meet? Representatives of the government that persecuted you. Yet this is exactly what happened to Sudanese refugees, at the hands of the UK asylum system