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Published in: democraciaAbierta“Essential” immigrant farmworkers struggle to feed themselves during Coronavirus
Immigrant farm workers have long been essential to the United States. But they have never been recognized, respected...
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Published in: ourEconomyImperialism in a coffee cup
Why is it that just 1p of a £2.50 cup of coffee goes to the farmer who cultivated and harvested the coffee beans?
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Published in: 50.50We're yearning for anti-racist, feminist leadership in the UK
The CEO of a major UK women’s charity previously spoke at a far right party event. We’ve had enough. Our leaders...
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Published in: TransformationLove beyond borders
How will the hardening of immigration policies affect the radical potential of romance?
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaUS immigration policy leaves millions in limbo
As non-citizens or residents, immigrants in US detention centers are not afforded the basic rights and...
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Published in: TransformationThe Migrant Quilt: re-stitching the fabric of community
Memory is the first form of resistance.
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Published in: democraciaAbierta"We Dreamers are like you, and you are like us"
Some 6.5 million undocumented youths and children of immigrants currently living in the United States, the so-called...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe end of DACA: Trump tells immigrant dreamer children to “Prepare for departure”
As the Trump administration prepares to dismantle the 5-year program through which some 790,000 children lived...
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Published in: TransformationWe’ve been down this road before
A powerful new video shows how immigrants have been scapegoated throughout US history (4 minutes).
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Published in: TransformationBuilding community in Berlin’s Sharehaus
Often, things that are seen as a problem in society are not: the house where locals and refugees live and work together.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKProtests in Calais: valuing human complexity in crisis
Thoughts on the UK media's representation of the refugee crisis, from a day of action and protest in Calais on...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK7 myths about immigration
On the face of it, our many misconceptions about immigration form a very depressing picture. Yet more accurate...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe wretched of the sea: an Algerian perspective
The securitisation of immigration control has failed to solve the migrant crisis because it ignores the root cause:...
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Published in: Shine A LightA green and pleasant land? The trauma of the British asylum system
The system of asylum in the UK pushes mental fortitude to its limits.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDiagnosing the daily poison
We must see the tabloid right as a target in the battle for a better society.
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Published in: TransformationExile Nation: The Plastic People
The need for a despised underclass of darker-skinned cheap labor has underpinned American prosperity since slavery....
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Published in: openDemocracyUKImmigration is a human right
Not only should we all have the right to move, but other vital rights are dependent upon it.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy immigration no longer works
By maintaining the moral and social umbilical cord with "home", modern communications technologies are causing major...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe case for treating migrants well is about much more than the economy
The government has been hiding evidence that immigration costs jobs. It doesn't, but those who want to defend...
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Published in: HomeThe other side of the border - Elysium and The Plastic People
While Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium depicts a highly exaggerated science-fiction future, and Charles Shaw’s The Plastic...