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28/11/12 Calais three years on
By Zubair Gharghasht For refugees, hoping to find a home in Britain, life – of a sort – goes on, just across the Channel… Sangatte, on the northern coast of France overlooking the English Channel, is best known as the location of a refugee camp, closed in 2002 following concerns it was a base for [...] |
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08/11/12 A golden opportunity
By Gary Buswell Among the many positives of the Olympics this summer was the noticeable change of tone around reporting of migrants in the mainstream press. With a diverse array of British medallists inspiring a more open national pride throughout the country, familiar tabloid headlines of new arrivals here to “milk the system” were nowhere [...] |
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08/11/12 What future for the children of irregular migrants
by Nando Sigona More than 120,000 children living in the UK are at risk of isolation and serious crime as a result of their status as ‘irregular migrants’, researchers have found. The children, 65,000 of whom were born in the UK, often struggle to access basic healthcare and education because their families fear they will [...] |
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08/11/12 The long road to teaching
By Beatrice Ngalula Kabutakapua Iranian teacher Ashraf Javdani recalls the struggle of finding a permanent position through the Jobcentre despite extensive teaching experience and university qualifications. Ashraf left Iran for London in 2005, before her country was hit by a series of anti-governmental demonstrations. With little knowledge of English, yet 15 years of experience working as [...] |
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08/11/12 Parliament Week shows that Parliament is open to everyone
By Penny McLean As part of Parliament Week 2012 Simple Acts is launching an online activity “Tell Your MP”, aimed at engaging migrants and refugees with the UK Parliament. Parliament Week (19-25 November 2012) aims to inform, connect and engage people across the UK with Parliamentary democracy. Coordinated by the House of Commons and the House of [...] |
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03/08/12 Barefoot British asylum seeker
By: Farai Munyebvu “It’s no longer a matter of hope or future anymore but survival,” says Rachael Bee, a trustee of Bristol Hospitality Network (BHN), a charity that tries to accommodate tens if not hundreds of desperate homeless failed asylum seekers across the Bristol area on a daily basis. “If it was a [...] |
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31/07/12 Osama Qashoo’s London
By: Ellen Grefberg It’s easy to understand why Palestinian filmmaker Osama Qashoo finds it difficult to trust people – after all, he was on the ill-fated Gaza ‘Freedom Flotilla’ in 2010, he’s been shot six times and imprisoned on 28 occasions since he was a boy and first threw stones at tanks. London has [...] |
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04/07/12 New student visa rules disadvantage migrants
By Tania Farias Anita Morales, a 38-year-old Colombian single mother whose real name has been changed to protect her identity, arrived in London on March 2010 to study English as a second language. At the beginning, her Tier 4 student visa allowed her to work 20 hours per week. Then, she renewed it and [...] |
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29/05/12 British Kosovar Albanian’s celebrate independence
By Remzije Duli More than 240 people from the Kosovar Albanian community in London celebrated the fourth anniversary of the Independence of Kosovo on February 23rd with a fun-packed event organised and run by the British Albanian Kosovar Council (BAKC) and British young people of Kosovar Albanian heritage. The free event brought together family and [...] |
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