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Published in: 50.50Religion, gender and migration: beyond 'obedience vs agency’It is time that debates surrounding religion and migration in the UK move beyond the almost monolithic focus on...
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Published in: 50.50Migration: breaking the deadlock
As the Global Forum on Migration and Development prepares to meet in Geneva, Don Flynn reports on the attempt to...
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Published in: 50.50Unheard and unseen in Britain
Time and time again I hear from refugee women that they want to work and contribute to British society. A dignified...
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Published in: 50.50Family Migration – don't fall into the Danish trap
An ongoing UK Government consultation on immigration policy makes an exemplar of the Danish system. But is Denmark's...
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Published in: 50.50Breaking the cycle: step by step in Smethwick
The Somali refugee community in Smethwick is less than ten years old. Muni Abdikarim and Ahmed Sirad spoke to Jenny...
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Published in: 50.50Trafficking: a human rights abuse, not an immigration offence
The British government's new anti-trafficking strategy is high on rhetoric about immigration crime and border...
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Published in: 50.50From civil war to the cult of cool
The policy of dispersing migrants in Britain has led to large numbers of Somali refugees in Smethwick, a town...
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Published in: 50.50A wound that shames our present
In proposing to remove the most basic safeguards for migrant domestic workers, Jenny Moss asks whether the UK...
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Published in: 50.50The mass crime of rape: ending impunity
A group of us gasped when one tiny mother of five, who looked no older than my 20-year old daughter, lamented, “When...
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Published in: HomeBreaking the conspiracy of silence
"I was 12 years old.....my anguish ended when my family left Okinawa after this man had paid me $5 during our last...
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Published in: HomeXenophobia and the Civilizing Mission
Europe’s civilizing mission is humanitarian - its duty to intervene to spread the good word, protecting the...
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Published in: Shine A LightFast track to despair
In the UK, people lose their liberty simply for claiming asylum. On the 60th anniversary of the Refugee Convention,...
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Published in: HomeHow the left is losing the war on traffickingBased on her fieldwork research on Filipinas in the sex industries in Japan, the author examines the traps and...
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Published in: 50.50Having our cake and eating it: British Muslim women
The arguments about family law rights in Britain's Muslim communities are bound up with racism and sexism. Those who...
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Published in: HomeMulticulturalism, Britishness, and Muslims
The idea of multiculturalism has been subjected to greater criticism in recent years, especially on the grounds that...
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Published in: 50.50Donor-driven Islam ?
Collaboration between western academia and Pakistani women at home and in the diaspora has established a body of...
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Published in: Shine A Light“We weren’t born asylum seekers”
For women seeking asylum in the UK the tales of persecution, flight and exile, of children and families left behind,...
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Published in: 50.50The migrants who care
The social care sector in the UK relies on migrants to look after older people. There is an urgent need to balance...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTelling the story of how women become asylum seekersLet the women who come to Britain for asylum from rape and mayhem in their own countries, be heard. The theatre...
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Published in: 50.50Killing a Mockingbird: Letter to my unborn daughter
There is something about education that confers dignity and breaks chains. It is the reason, dear daughter, why I...
