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Published in: TransformationThe Migrant Quilt: re-stitching the fabric of communityMemory 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 beforeA 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 SharehausOften, 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 crisisThoughts 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 immigrationOn 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 perspectiveThe 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 systemThe system of asylum in the UK pushes mental fortitude to its limits.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKDiagnosing the daily poisonWe 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 PeopleThe 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 rightNot 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 worksBy 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 economyThe 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 PeopleWhile Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium depicts a highly exaggerated science-fiction future, and Charles Shaw’s The Plastic...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKFarage is right - it's not just the economy, stupid!The immigration debate is about more than jobs and taxes; it is about the small everyday changes that people feel...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRomanian and Bulgarian migrants - it’s not immigration but xenophobia we should be discussingBehind the smokescreen of inaccurate economic figures and scare stories, the political decisions being taken by the...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe spread of social blindness: migrants & the immigration Bill
The government's immigration Bill is dehumanising, divisive, callous and unwarranted. We all have a duty to oppose it.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSlavery and the African empire - an unfamiliar historyFor centuries, much of Europe was integrated into a vast African empire. Yet we refuse to fully understand our...
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Published in: Shine A LightHow do the British really feel about immigration?Illuminating the huge gap between perceptions and reality. A report on research by Ipsos Mori for Unbound Philanthropy.
