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Tag Archives: migrants
Aug 11 2016
How reliant is Britain on EU migrant workers?
Comments Off on How reliant is Britain on EU migrant workers?By Catherine Harris Brexit – the UK vote to leave the European Union – has caused uncertainty in a number of areas. One of which is the impact that potentially reduced immigration will have on the British economy, particularly in … Continue reading
Posted by: August 11, 2016
Tagged with: Brexit, immigration, migrants, NHS, UK economy
Mar 28 2016
The political ‘migration crisis’ and the military-humanitarian response
1 CommentBy Pierluigi Musarò ‘We need more than a humanitarian response […] We need political leadership and action,’ Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said on 8 March 2016. Referring to the fact that ‘Europe is now seeing … Continue reading
Posted by: March 28, 2016
Tagged with: border control, humanitarian emergency, humanitarian space, humanitarianism, immigration, migrant crisis, migrants, refugee crisis, refugees
Feb 5 2016
Modern slavery? The UK visa system and the exploitation of migrant domestic workers
Comments Off on Modern slavery? The UK visa system and the exploitation of migrant domestic workersBy Virginia Mantouvalou It might be hard to believe that a domestic worker – or anyone – is currently forced to sleep on a bathroom floor or is locked up in a house. Yet such experiences are very real for … Continue reading
Posted by: February 5, 2016
Tagged with: immigration, migrants, UK
Aug 28 2015
Fortress Europe: Cause or Consequence of Europe’s ‘Migrant Crisis’?
3 CommentsBy Catherine Briddick Europe, it seems, is facing a ‘migration crisis’. This crisis is ‘testing’ for, amongst others, the British public, because, as our Prime Minister David Cameron explained in an interview with ITV News: you have got a swarm … Continue reading
Posted by: August 28, 2015
Tagged with: asylum, human rights, humanitarian visas, international law, Mediterranean migrant crisis, migrant crisis, migrants, refugee law, refugees, Syrian refugees, trafficking
Jun 15 2015
The Politics of the Humanitarian Crisis in Europe
4 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi One of the greatest moral achievements of the ancient world has been the enshrinement of a solidarity principle for the fellow human in distress, which finds perhaps its highest formulation in the evangelical parable of the “good … Continue reading
Posted by: June 15, 2015
Tagged with: EU, humanitarianism, migrants
Aug 19 2014
In Greece, They Shoot Immigrants, Don’t They?
1 CommentBy Maria Kyriakidou It was April of 2013, when Greece and the international press were shocked by the news that about thirty migrant workers were shot by the supervisors of the strawberry fields where they had been working in Manolada, … Continue reading
Posted by: August 19, 2014
Tagged with: Golden Dawn, Greece, human rights, immigration, Manolada, migrants, strawberries, Zeus Xenios