In the amorality of capitalism, the alternatives for an emigrant are virtually reduced to cynicism or melancholy.
Gendered approaches to migration often emphasise the experiences of female migrants, at times privileging their assumed vulnerability, as a necessary counter to the ‘privileged’ status of men within contexts of migration and beyond. To whom is this approach beneficial?
Twenty eight years exactly since the first resolution on Roma was passed by the European Parliament, the EU is finally publishing its Framework Strategy on Roma. But is there any progress to report?
45 years on, the International War Crimes Tribunal set up by Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre is being used to address abuses of migrants’ rights in Europe. It is time to inject solidarity and accountability into the European migration regime, Jennifer Allsopp reports from Stockholm on Tribun
Roma communities are facing a hostile environment in numerous European states. The European Commission needs to strike a fine balance between promoting change and allowing states to tackle this situation themselves.
Migration control increasingly resembles crime control, what’s worse is that migrants are not afforded the same long-fought for procedural safeguards as suspected criminal offenders. Ultimately, history tells us that this is a matter of concern for us all, foreigner and citizen alike
The UNHCR admits that that refugees fleeing Rwanda after 1998 still may have a well-founded fear of persecution, so what lies behind its decision to invoke the Cessation Clause?
The social cohesion and inclusion debate does not even begin to touch the lives of those invisible migrants who toil all hours of the day working out ways of pleasing their employers / traffickers / husbands. It is the existence of this population, more than any other, which exposes the myth of de
Young migrants to London are keen to start their lives in the metropolis, but find that they are blocked by the toxic migration debate that is producing policies that are ungenerous and unimaginative.
The selective logics of inclusion operating throughout the project, and the news that private interests will be the prime beneficiaries of the 2012 Games, means that the ultimate paradox of the Games might be the hope invested in them, says Lea Sitkin
A Yorkshire campaign deploys rigorous research to expose and resist the astonishing corporate takeover of Britain’s 'asylum seeker markets'
There is no dedicated system or procedure in the UK for identifying stateless people and resolving their plight, so it not by chance that one of the words most regularly associated with the stateless is ‘hidden’. It's time the government stepped in, says Chris Nash
