Tag: borders

3 Reasons to Retract Your Child’s Nationality Data From the School Census
Over the weekend, a number of adverts appeared at bus stops and on tube lines across London calling for a boycott of the school census. Here are three reasons to retract your child’s nationality data from the census by 18 May.
“Target/Tackle”: A Hostile Environment for the Homeless
Three of the UK’s biggest homelessness charities are collaborating with Home Office immigration enforcement teams on the detention and deportation of European rough sleepers.
Killing Us Softly: A Short History of Biopower in the NHS
This week's long read exposes the phony narrative of an NHS for all, instead revealing an institution that has, from its conception, existed to serve the needs of capital.
‘Who is the government protecting from what?’: Borders and Backlashes in Australia’s Long Sixties
As nationalist politicians line up to praise Australia's border policing, Jon Piccini examines the history of its migration policy - and the resistance it engendered - during the 'long sixties' of 1966-72.
Boats, Borders, Brutality: Australia’s Refugee Policy
Last week’s Muslim ban provoked outrage across the globe. But with the mandatory detention of asylum seekers in offshore camps and forced ‘boat turnbacks’, Australia’s border regime is arguably even worse than Trump’s.
Surviving Hostile Environments: Migrant Families With No Recourse to Public Funds
North East London Migrant Action reports on the barriers that many migrants face when attempting to access to public services and financial support.
Open Letter: The Government’s Education Policies are Attacking BME and Migrant Students
The home secretary has pledged to reduce the number of non-EU international students enrolled at British universities from 300,000 to 170,000, representing a further attack on migrant and BME students.
What Can We Learn from the Existence and Eviction of the Calais Jungle?
The closure of Europe’s largest unregulated refugee camp generated images of desolation and desperation, bolstering a popular narrative of the Jungle as only a problem, and the eviction a solution. But actually longterm volunteers say the camp offered residents a type of support and a sense of community that state asylum systems could learn from.  
4 Reasons to Resist the New Immigration Duty in the School Census
Schools are now being used to investigate 'education tourism' as part of the government's campaign to create a hostile environment for migrants. Against Borders for Children believes we can work together to resist the plans.
The Choices Are Awful, But We Have To Vote To Stay In The EU
Eleanor Penny explains why Britain needs to remain in the EU despite it's structural racism and lack of democracy.
Freedom of Movement and Benefit Tourism: Paying Attention to the Background
Behind the folk devil figure of the ‘benefit tourist’ - which has become so prominent in the Brexit debate - is the politics of freedom of movement and the realities of those who are forced to be mobile to reproduce their lives.