Trade Unions Need to Embrace Freedom of Movement, Not Scapegoat Migrant Workers
After years of being told that class is dead, the condition of workers has finally returned to the pages of newspapers and the mouths of TV commentators. But today there is only one legitimate concern...
View Article“Target/Tackle”: A Hostile Environment for the Homeless
At the beginning of March a Corporate Watch report revealed how 3 of the UK’s biggest homelessness charities are collaborating with Home Office immigration enforcement teams on the detention and...
View ArticleWhat the Casey Review Got Wrong (and Right) About Migrant Women’s Social...
With the snap General Election announcement a month ago, demonisation of migrant and refugee communities has become even more vitriolic in tone. It reminded me of the language surrounding the...
View ArticleCorbyn Is Wrong to Indulge Migration Myths – Free Movement Must Be Defended
When Jeremy Corbyn said over the weekend that leaving the EU would mean an end to the “the wholesale importation of underpaid workers from central Europe in order to destroy conditions, particularly in...
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G4S is Using Art by Detainees and Prisoners to Boost Its Public Image
A drawing on the wall shows a dilapidated room. Giant eyes and ears block the exit, and a skull sits in the corner, beside a threadbare punchbag. Outside the artist has depicted a yard, a building...
View ArticleLabour and Migration: No More Racing to the Bottom
In the 2015 leadership contest, Jeremy Corbyn stood on a platform that promised honest politics. ‘What will Labour do about immigration?’ was a regular question in the scores of hustings that were held...
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Surround Yarl’s Wood: We Must Keep On Demanding an End to Immigration Detention
Two hundred activists surrounded Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre (IRC) in Bedfordshire for the 12th time on Saturday 18 November, braving the cold and mud to demand all of Britain’s detention...
View ArticleEugenics Is Not a Fringe Issue – It Influences UK Immigration Policy
The London Conference on Intelligence, an annual gathering of pseudo-academics interested in eugenics, is tempting to pass off as a fringe event. Its attendees range from Richard Lynn, who has...
View ArticleNo 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...
View ArticleYarl’s Wood Hunger Strike: 120 Detainees Refuse Food in Protest Against Home...
Around 120 people in Yarl’s Wood detention centre have gone on hunger strike to protest against ‘offensive’ Home Office practices, including indefinite detention. Detainees at the Serco-run immigration...
View ArticleSolidarity 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...
View ArticleMigration 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...
View ArticleOn 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...
View Article5 Reasons Global Free Movement Isn’t Such a Bad Idea
Arguing for fewer immigration controls has become an invitation for abuse and ridicule. We’re told the idea of softer borders is ‘crazy’ or ‘absurd’. But history will judge those who defend borders in...
View ArticleCan America’s Sanctuary City Model Work in the UK? A North London Borough is...
In autumn 2016, a group of residents in north London won a protracted battle against a local authority to have ten vulnerable Syrian families resettled in their borough. The fight was particularly...
View ArticleDomestic Violence or Deportation? The Migrant Women Forced to Choose
A search for ‘domestic violence ILR’ on immigrationboards.com, a popular online forum where migrants share advice and support, returns hundreds of results. Isolated women who have no access to proper...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleA Short Guide to Deportation Charter Flights
In the UK, there are two types of deportation. The majority – around 90% – take place on the back row of a commercial airliner, where a deportee may occasionally be seen, flanked by two guards,...
View ArticleThese Five Victories in the Fight for Migrants’ Rights Show We Can Win
Campaign group Against Borders for Children (ABC) claimed a sudden and startling victory this month, with the government reportedly backtracking on its demand that schools collect data on pupils’...
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Doctors Send Spoof ‘Go Home’ Van Around Westminster to Protest the Hostile...
A spoof ‘go home’ van drove through Westminster on Wednesday morning, to protest the impact of the hostile environment in healthcare. Imitating the visuals of the brutal 2013 ad vans that said people...
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