Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Yasmin Gunaratnam is a Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths and is an editor of Feminist Review. Her book Death and the Migrant was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2013. She is a co-author of Go Home? The Politics of Immigration Controversies (2017, Manchester University Press).
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMy home, your home – the volunteers welcoming migrants into their homes and communitiesA global trend of criminalising those who help migrants is underway – but less spectacular acts of defiance are also...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK‘Go Home?’ – five years onOn bordering, the referendum and Windrush: "It might be a dangerous moment but it is a moment when the old tricks of...
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Published in: TransformationIntersectional pain: what I’ve learned from hospices and feminism of colourMight pain and oppression be like love—a simple thunderbolt at times, and in other circumstances complex and slow...
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Published in: 50.50Sick and tired: Sri Lankan domestic workers fight back against violenceAs protesters demand justice for domestic workers after a brutal assault, isn't it time we all became sick and tired...
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Published in: Shine A LightAllegations of assault by guards at a UK detention centreMigrants detained out of sight in government lock-ups are uniquely vulnerable. Six miles from Oxford, at Campsfield...
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Published in: TransformationStephen Sutton and the politics of the deathbed smileIn the political economy of modern dying, Stephen's Sutton's death from cancer - wrapped up in cheery charity...