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Published in: openDemocracyUKAddress of Beelzebub: Robert Burns in defence of migrants
As political rhetoric against migrants reaches a new height, it's Robert Burns' birthday. We're re-publishing a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Between exit and voice: refugees' stories from Lampedusa to Hamburg
European politics currently serves to reinforce the ‘Fortress’, leaving refugees vulnerable and futureless, battling...
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Published in: openSecurityUndocumented migrants: time to change the European discourse
Most undocumented migrants in Europe are not products of irregular entry and humanitarian crises such as that at...
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Published in: ourNHSShould you have to 'earn' your right to use the NHS?
More NHS migrant charging proposals, although migrants pay more than average tax already, set a divisive new trend.
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Published in: ourNHSHealth is a right, not a reward for being born in the right place
Forget the inaccurate, hate-filled xenophobia - here's why we should treat migrants without extra charge.
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Published in: openSecuritySyria's refugees: international effort needed
An Amnesty International report has highlighted the huge gap between the Syrian refugee crisis and the global...
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Published in: ourNHSThe NHS and dog whistle politics
The new Immigration Bill introduces hefty charges for migrants to use the NHS. It is a costly, wrong-headed insult...
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Published in: openSecurityMount Zion: the city within
Rather than submit to the noxious dynamics of Spain’s colossal underground economy, the migrant workers of Mount...
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Published in: openSecurityA crisis of presence: the war on Greek cities
The closure of official channels of debate and establishment of migrant detention camps in Athens, has been the...
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Published in: TransformationMarginal bodies: queer migrants on transformation
What does it mean to be undocumented in the USA? Drawing from her own experiences of the asylum system, mónica...
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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: 50.50Stateless in the UK: amid the chaos, a groundbreaking step forward
New immigration rules in the UK designed to help stateless people come into force at a time when legal aid has been...
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Published in: HomeThe trouble with Fortress Europe
To prevent illegal immigration, the EU has built a set of far-reaching border control and enforcement policies. But...
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Published in: HomeLegitimating immigration regimes in the European Union
The threat that immigration poses to so-called western democratic values is increasingly the subject of...
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Published in: HomeMigrants as activist citizens in Italy
In 2010 and 2011 migrants behaved like activist citizens throughout Italy, initiating a new cycle of struggles in...
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Published in: HomeBritish-Muslim family law and citizenship
Muslims in Britain marry, divorce, bring up their children and deal with death by resorting to a variety of norms...
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Published in: oDRBeyond the gastarbeiter: the other side of post-Soviet migration
The collapse of the Soviet Union left desperate human situations in its wake: prices shot up, wages weren’t paid and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Roma rights dilemma of the French left
On the Roma issue, the French left must choose: whether to align itself with the forces of progress to combat...
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Published in: 50.50Death at the global frontier
More than 16,000 people have died at the borders of Europe since 1993, but who is responsible? Leanne Weber explores...
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Published in: 50.50Tribunal 12: migrants’ rights abuses in Europe
45 years on, the International War Crimes Tribunal set up by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre is being used to...