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Migration
Migration
These Five Victories in the Fight for Migrants’ Rights Show We Can Win
Charlotte England
After Windrush: Britain and Migration
On #NovaraFM, James Butler, Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar look at the politics of the recent Windrush crisis, the history of migration policy in the UK, and ask: what could a left-wing migration policy look like?
What Is the Hostile Environment?
British children sleeping on night buses or in storage units, torture survivors required to pay upfront for medical treatment, these are just some of the consequences of Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’. In this explainer video; Migrants Rights Specialist Rockhaya Sylla unpacks some of the origins and repercussions of this harmful set of policies.
Outsourcing Incarceration: Privitisation in Britain’s Immigration Detention Estate
Rudy Schulkind
A Short Guide to Deportation Charter Flights
Phil Miller
Britain’s Plan to Build a Prison in Nigeria is Wrong and Must Be Stopped
Natalie Fiennes
A Progressive Immigration Policy?
If we get a left-wing Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn, they will have an immigration system, and what that will look like matters – for migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. Maya Goodfellow discusses how we might get there.
Refugees in Indonesia and Iraq Condemn Western Indifference
Matt Broomfield
Theresa May Must Resign
Windrush Brits are being detained and deported and it is a disgrace. When will Theresa May have the dignity to resign? For more articles, videos and podcasts as part of our migration focus head to novaramedia.com/focus/migration
Domestic Violence or Deportation? The Migrant Women Forced to Choose
Niamh McIntyre
We Don’t Need Borders
We think of borders as the most natural thing in the world. In reality, they are an unnecessary evil, and fighting them has to be a top priority. Here’s why borders have no place in a just world.
Can America’s Sanctuary City Model Work in the UK? A North London Borough is About to Find Out
Charlotte England
Interview With Diane Abbott
Can we look forward to a fairer immigration system under Labour? A few weeks ago Ash Sarkar sat down with Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott to talk about migration, asylum, deportation and more.
5 Reasons Global Free Movement Isn’t Such a Bad Idea
Aisha Dodwell
How Power Hungry Politicians and the Far-right Are Turning Italy Against Refugees
Hsiao-Hung Pai
On Migration and the State: Lea Ypi
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Lea Ypi, professor in political theory at the LSE to discuss ways of thinking about migration, what it tells us about the state and the possibility of an emancipatory cosmopolitanism.
Migration Focus
Each year, thousands of people die trying to reach Europe. In Britain, Theresa May is revoking migrants’ right to free healthcare, detaining people indefinitely and trying to quietly deport a generation of Windrush migrants who have lived in the country for decades. It’s clear that migration needs to be a priority for the left. Stay tuned this week as Novara Media looks at the topic in depth.
Solidarity With the Yarl’s Wood Hunger Strikers
Women in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre have now been on hunger strike for nearly two weeks. Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott expresses her solidarity with their fight for adequate healthcare provision, for improved legal access and an end to indefinite detention.
No More Deaths at Sea
On the sixth of February 2014, the Guardia Civil fired rubber bullets at African migrants trying to swim into the Spanish-controlled Moroccan city of Ceuta. At least 14 deaths were recorded. Four years later campaigners marched against the callous disregard for life at Europe’s borders. A Film by Gosia Juszczak & Darío Unai Cristóbal Pulido
The Cargo Women of Melilla
Embedded in the Moroccan coast, the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla represent Europe’s southernmost border. There is no formal customs agreement between these two autonomous cities and Morocco, giving rise to a system where goods are smuggled across the border as personal luggage to avoid customs charges and taxes. The burden of this work […]
Ghettoes of Europe: The Private Landlords Making Billions From Refugee Shelters in Berlin
Hsiao-Hung Pai
The Bitter Fruit of Andalucia
Visible from space, the vast concentration of plastic greenhouses in Almeria supply more than half of Europe’s fruit and vegetables. An economic boom in this previously poor region of Andalucia has come at the expense of the African migrants who work in these greenhouses, under slave-like conditions. Approximately 200 workers live there during peak season. […]
At Your Service? Migrant Women Workers in the UK Hospitality Sector
Ewa Jasiewicz
Surviving Hostile Environments: Migrant Families With No Recourse to Public Funds
North East London Migrant Action
Good Refugees vs Bad Migrants
Hector Uniacke
Interview: Aderonke Apata
Aderonke Apata on her experience in Yarl’s Wood detention centre.