No woman, no matter what her immigration status, should have to choose between violence in her country and violence in Britain, says Anna Musgrave
The ILO Domestic Workers Convention was unthinkable just a few years ago. It represents the culmination of years of effort by domestic workers, advocates, and officials to shine a spotlight on a long-ignored but significant sector of the workforce, says Nisha Varia
New immigration rules in the UK enforce the power of abusive employers over migrant domestic workers. It is a lack of respect for human dignity that will tear apart the fabric of our society, not migration, says Jenny Moss
A poem by Warsan Shire. Part of a series of poems by African feminist writers for 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence.
The UN Refugee Agency must not be the facilitator of a permissive attitude towards continued corruption and the absence of democracy in Rwanda. By calling on refugees who fled before 1998 to return home to the threat of persecution it risks legitimising Kagame’s autocratic regime.
If "destitutes" across the UK can stand up and act together we can make a difference: we are ready to meet the authorities at the negotiating table, says Nancy Bonongwe.
The threat that immigration poses to so-called western democratic values is increasingly the subject of neo-orientalist public discussion: it willingly refers to the (often Muslim) migrant as a savage, uncivilized, terrorist ‘other’; an ‘anti-citizen’. If we are to arrive at a model of citizensh
In 2010 and 2011 migrants behaved like activist citizens throughout Italy, initiating a new cycle of struggles in the crisis of neoliberalism. Their contestation of an exclusionary, racialized and competitive model of society could become a goal shared by migrants and nationals alike.
The UK government has created a new profit source for security giant G4S and its partners: managing housing for asylum seekers. John Grayson reports on a reckless experiment whose result is human misery.
An immigration lawyer reveals the alarming degree to which migrants are subjected to monitoring and control outside the detention centre.
Issues facing LGBTI refugees are receiving unprecedented attention in Britain yet many still face a ‘double jeopardy’ of racism and homophobia. We need to make the most of the current support for LGBTI rights in order to ensure long-lasting change.
