'Performative cruelty': the hostile architecture of the UK government's migrant barge
Jul 27, 2023 08:19 am UTC| Insights & Views
The arrival of the Bibby Stockholm barge at Portland Port, in Dorset, on July 18 2023, marks a new low in the UK governments hostile immigration environment. The vessel is set to accommodate over 500 asylum seekers. This,...
It could cost the taxpayer £169,000 to deport each migrant to Rwanda – and possibly even more
Jul 04, 2023 07:43 am UTC| Insights & Views
The Home Office has revealed how much it believes it will cost to send migrants arriving in the UK to Rwanda a staggering 169,000 per person. This estimate is even more surprising when you consider that one of the aims of...
3 myths about immigration in America
Jul 03, 2023 02:47 am UTC| Insights & Views
The U.S. is and long has been a pluralistic society that contains large immigrant communities. Yet migration is an actively debated but poorly understood topic, and much of the conventional thinking and political...
Net migration: how an unreachable target came to shape Britain
May 29, 2023 05:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Life Politics
New data shows that the UK has hit a record high net migration number of 606,000. Through it has been central to 13 years of policy and rhetoric, net migration is, in fact, a pretty odd metric that tells us very little...
May 05, 2023 12:31 pm UTC| Life
Luca* had not been working long as an online food courier when we met him on a cold winters day in a square in the city centre. This was where many food couriers waited for orders to drop into their mobile phones. The...
COVID-19 has hardened Canadian views on immigration
Oct 05, 2020 13:29 pm UTC| Health
With an aging and slow-growing population, Canada depends on immigration for economic and demographic growth. But the COVID-19 pandemic has effectively closed our borders and virtually halted the entry of...
When politicians turn immigration into a 'crisis,' they hurt their own people
Jan 23, 2020 11:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
A massive influx of immigrants on the southern border led to record numbers of people entering the country without legal permission, record numbers of migrant deaths and the criminalization of humanitarian workers and...
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