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Published in: openSecurityThe European Kurds rallying to fight IS
With Kurds in Iraq and Syria under attack from the Islamic State, many young Kurds in Europe have been joining...
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Published in: 50.50Immigration detention: a most un-British phenomenon
Strict prohibitions against arbitrary detention are a central element in any system that celebrates liberty. It is...
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Published in: openSecurityThe poverty of European migration policy
Policy on migration in Europe bears more relationship to ideology than evidence. And humanity is sorely lacking.
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Published in: openSecurityA year after Lampedusa: what has changed?
Twelve months ago, Europe’s conscience was pricked by the sight of the bodies of hundreds of migrants shipwrecked at...
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Published in: ourNHSFrom Iraq to Tilbury: migrants, health and borders
We bear powerless witness to mountain massacres, to bombs raining on life-saving hospitals. But does our compassion...
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Published in: ourNHSStop distracting us with the 'health tourism' sideshow
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt's plans to charge non-EU migrants 150% of the cost of NHS treatment are a sideshow that...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaArab migrants face a new Sykes-Picot in Calais
The latest raid on camps in Calais is an example of Europe continuing to strengthen border controls and crack down...
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Published in: openSecurityLibya: the migrant trap
The discovery by the Italian navy of 30 bodies in a fishing boat at the weekend highlights the deadly trail of...
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Published in: 50.50'Don't even talk to them': Tunisia's forgotten refugees
When international organisations declare a crisis over and refugee camps are closed, what happens to those who...
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Published in: HomeScrap heap, scrap yard
Most of us share hard work, family and the hope of an easier future. Most of us want love, companionship and to be...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe rogue general and the migrant ‘massacre’ on the Mediterranean
Pressure on Europe as asylum-seekers in Libya risk everything to reach safety in Italy while the EU looks the other way.
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Published in: openSecurityTip of the iceberg: European migration policy in Greece and the Euro-elections
Many people will be affected by the results of the Euro-elections in Greece and across the continent—including those...
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Published in: openSecurityNot polished enough! Have Swedes had enough of the far right?
In an increasingly unequal Sweden, the far right has been able to capitalise on growing insecurity for its...
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Published in: openSecuritySyrian refugees in Turkey: defusing the powder-keg
In sharp contrast to wider Europe, Turkey has taken in many refugees from the Syrian civil war—but its hospitality...
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Published in: openSecurityNo limits to brutality: deaths at the Greece-Turkey borders
People who fetch up at the borders between Greece and Turkey are treated as if they were less than human, in...
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Published in: openSecurityRacism: troubling truths
Fighting racism in Europe is not easy when Europe has two hands tied behind its back—debilitated by neo-liberal...
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Published in: 50.50Government in the dock: destitution and asylum in the UK
In a landmark legal case, Refugee Action is taking the British government to court next week to challenge policies...
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Published in: 50.50UK: life in limbo for Sudanese democracy activists
Britain remains blind to the reasons why threatened minorities and activists are forced to flee hostile regimes,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAddress of Beelzebub: Robert Burns in defence of migrants
As political rhetoric against migrants reaches a new height, it's Robert Burns' birthday. We're re-publishing a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Between exit and voice: refugees' stories from Lampedusa to Hamburg
European politics currently serves to reinforce the ‘Fortress’, leaving refugees vulnerable and futureless, battling...