The UK will never come to terms with the modern day reality of migration if our only approach to it is to impose ever tighter restrictions. We are increasingly a nation shaped by migration in all its forms, and part of our future nation building has to involve embracing this reality in a positive
What drives Britain’s increasing reliance on migrant workers? Public policies have often incentivised – and in some cases left little choice for – individual employers to respond to shortages through the employment of migrant workers, say Martin Ruhs and Bridget Anderson
For over three years now, we have relied on Gaddafi and his state apparatus to keep asylum seekers and other migrants away from our European doors.
Based on her fieldwork research on Filipinas in the sex industries in Japan, the author examines the traps and contradictions government regulators encounter in their attempt to control trafficking
New forms of shared strategy and campaigning are taking on the worst effects of fiercely competitive neoliberal service economies. Globalization from above can be fought and resisted effectively by processes of globalization from below
The debate on migrant integration and English language acquisition resurfaced during Prime Minister’s Questions last Wednesday. Cameron agreed with one of his MPs that migrant parents should be responsible for ensuring that their children know English. The implication, that migrants could be blame
Are borders ethically arbitrary? What, apart from sheer political pragmatism, justifies one community from keeping another from exercising the right of free movement? A proper consideration of the difference between voluntary migration and economic migration suggests cosmopolitan alternatives to a
The Global Forum on Migration and Development is an example of global civil society activism, and was seen by many as the holy grail of a progressive approach to immigration. Is it really the way forward?
For women seeking asylum in the UK the tales of persecution, flight and exile, of children and families left behind, and months and often years lost in the bureaucratic cruelties of the asylum system continue
The social care sector in the UK relies on migrants to look after older people. There is an urgent need to balance the rights and entitlements of two vulnerable groups - the right of migrants to decent employment conditions, and the right of older people to good care services
In the rush to tighten borders, the government is engaged in a disservice not only to the British public today, but to future generations of British workers
Let the women who come to Britain for asylum from rape and mayhem in their own countries, be heard. The theatre brings their stories to life.
