Don Flynn is the director of Migrants’ Rights Network, which links the work of over two thousand organisations working with migrants in the UK. He writes regular commentaries on immigration policy on the MRN’s website and has contributed chapters to several edited books, including Global Surveillance and Policing – edited by Elia Zureik and Mark B. Salter, and Security and insecurity: community, citizenship, and the ‘war on terror’, edited by Pat Noxolo and Jef Huysmans.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Rebuilding trust in Europe will mean a new and more populist way of doing politicsThe truth is that ‘trust me’ didn’t work and the much-vaunted expertise of the ‘third way’ politicians have...
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Published in: Shine A LightNeedless heartbreak: new UK rules on family migrationToday's report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Migration exposes deep injustice in new restrictions on...
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Published in: Shine A LightA ‘Coalition of the Rational’ on immigration? What would we do to make that happen?
At a fringe meeting of Labour’s Party Conference last week, the shadow minister for immigration Chris Bryant MP said...
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Published in: Shine A LightDetention is the essence of immigration control
At any one time more than 2000 people are deprived of their liberty because a UK immigration official considers they...
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Published in: Shine A Light'Something there is that doesn't love a border'
The American poet Robert Frost said it about walls and the way the forces of nature do their best to pull them down....
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Published in: Shine A Light“Mickey Mouse border controls slammed!” Calm down, relax, don't worry
Around one in every 2000 people entering the UK between June 2010 and November 2011 got in on just a visual check of...