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Published in: 50.50Mazí Mas, “with us”Women have played a seminal role in keeping food cultures all over the world alive. Nikandre Kopcke discusses her...
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Published in: Shine A LightRefugee women in the UK: fighting back from behind barsThe experience of female asylum seekers is distinct to their gender, particularly when survivors of rape and...
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Published in: 50.50Deported from Japan: until death do us partFebruary will see the final judgment in the case of Abubakar Awudu Suraj, a Ghanian national who died whilst being...
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Published in: 50.50UK: Will proposed legislation mean deporting trafficking victims ?As young girls, Saima and Linda were trafficked from Zimbabwe to London. It took them ten years to escape from...
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Published in: Shine A LightEnding the stark choice: domestic violence or destitution in the UK
The introduction of the Destitution Domestic Violence concession in 2012 giving some migrant victims access to...
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Published in: 50.50Who are the ‘illegals’?The UK Immigration Bill has no clear targets: it gives ordinary individuals the power to decide. Will we use an...
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Published in: 50.50She Left Me the Gun: on story-telling and re-telling
Emma Brockes’ exploration of her mother’s life in South Africa, and what made her leave, is also a study in writing...
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Published in: 50.50Slavenka Drakulić: violence, memory, and the nationWriter and journalist Slavenka Drakulić reflects on the use of sexual violence in war, the psyche in conflict, and...
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Published in: 50.50Creating a safe haven in the intersection of state racism and structural patriarchy
The UK Feminista’s summer school heard how female asylum seekers fight back against the intersecting injustices they face.
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Published in: 50.50Poverty: a human rights abuse in the UK
Internationally poverty has been recognised as a violation of human dignity and, when a consequence of government...
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Published in: 50.50"What happened to me here....that's what broke my spirit"
Women's experiences of the UK asylum system.
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Published in: 50.50Anti-immigrant sentiment: time to talk about gender?The way in which gender figures in the picture of anti-immigrant sentiment is rarely discussed, yet anti-immigrant...
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Published in: 50.50Women of Senegal: agents of peaceThe physical and moral suffering undergone by the valiant people of Casamance is incalculable and, as usual, it is...
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Published in: 50.50Hope of a migrant'Domestic work is the beginning of all labour; it is central to our lives and is at the heart of our economy and...
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Published in: 50.50Double standards: dispersal and pregnant asylum seekers in BritainThe NHS prides itself on its high standard of maternity care, yet by transporting pregnant asylum seekers between...
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Published in: 50.50Migrants and the State: an exclusive national family?
Agnes Woolley examines the implications of the UK Government’s new rules on family migration and argues that if...
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Published in: 50.50The mind of the traffickers
Consumer campaigns, self-help methodology and those who risk their lives to defend others cannot match the power of...
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Published in: 50.50When nowhere is safe
No woman, no matter what her immigration status, should have to choose between violence in her country and violence...
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Published in: 50.50Human Luggage: lives of neo-bondage and servitude
New immigration rules in the UK enforce the power of abusive employers over migrant domestic workers. It is a lack...
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Published in: 50.50Seeking asylum, ending destitution
If "destitutes" across the UK can stand up and act together we can make a difference: we are ready to meet the...
