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| Thursday 11 February 2010 |
Valerie Hartwich
Building a fortress around British academia
A new report shows just how devastating, irrational and unfair are the UK’s restrictions on international students.
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| Monday 26 October 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
‘Rescue’: a new PC term for repatriation
As the sex-trafficking scare is exposed as a tissue of lies, Nathalie Rothschild spells out the need for full freedom of movement for migrants.
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| Monday 26 October 2009 |
Guy Rundle
The calm before the immigration storm?
The lack of hysteria at a new influx of refugee boats to Australia has disappointed pro- and anti-refugee groups alike.
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| Thursday 1 October 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Not all migrants are scruffy, dirty victims
Yes, the residents of the Calais ‘jungle’ have been treated badly, but the no borders case requires a defence of everyone’s right to move.
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| Friday 18 September 2009 |
Patrick Hayes
Stop this rumble in ‘the jungle’
The French should demolish the migrant slum in Calais — but only after Europe’s inhumane immigration policies have been bulldozed.
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| Wednesday 26 August 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
We’re all traffickers now
We should challenge the idea that everything from smoking a spliff to employing an African cleaner is potential complicity in a ‘slave trade’.
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| Wednesday 1 July 2009 |
Jessica Mudditt
In Calais, solidarity with the sans papiers
PHOTO ESSAY: Jessica Mudditt reports on a protest for open borders at the wasteland migrant shanties in France.
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| Tuesday 16 June 2009 |
Patrick Hayes
Keep border police out of universities
Patrick Hayes talks to the students occupying the director's office at SOAS in protest against the arrest of nine university cleaners.
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| Wednesday 3 June 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
At last, a boycott worth supporting
The UK University and College Union’s refusal to snoop on foreign students in Britain should be welcomed.
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| Wednesday 6 May 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Why we should smash this intellectual forcefield
Jacqui Smith’s desire to protect Britons from extremist foreigners is patronising, impractical and illiberal.
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| Monday 27 April 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
More evidence that trafficking is a myth
A major Irish investigation has failed to find proof of people-smuggling, puncturing the ‘new slavery’ scare.
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| Tuesday 14 April 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Don’t close the door to Asian students
Demonising Pakistani students because a handful have been arrested as terror suspects is mad, bad and dangerous.
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| Wednesday 8 April 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
‘Polish plumber’: you’ll miss him when he’s gone
News of migrants leaving recession-hit Britain has caused panic, even amongst those who didn’t welcome them when they first arrived.
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| Tuesday 10 March 2009 |
Nathalie Rothschild
The hidden dangers of the migrant amnesty
Boris Johnson’s proposal of an ‘earned amnesty’ for illegal immigrants sounds progressive. Until you read the small print.
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| Monday 23 February 2009 |
Manick Govinda
Britain’s red light to overseas artists
Manick Govinda attacks government restrictions on the unfettered movement of artists into Britain.
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| Monday 9 February 2009 |
Tara McCormack
The new slave trade?
The term ‘trafficking’ depoliticises the debate about immigration and makes everyone into a pathetic victim.
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| Wednesday 17 December 2008 |
Nathalie Rothschild
The wrong diagnosis
The ‘doctor-turned-terrorist’ has convinced many that it’s too easy for foreigners to join the NHS. In fact, it’s too hard.
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| Thursday 27 November 2008 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Prostituting women’s solidarity
The UK government’s call to British women to help combat ‘sex trafficking’ amounts to a crackdown on immigration.
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| Friday 14 November 2008 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Immigrants? Let them in
In discussing migrants alongside goods and services, Jason Riley allows the needs of the market to trump the case for unfettered freedom.
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| Wednesday 29 October 2008 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Putting a forcefield around Britain
Jacqui Smith’s plan to keep out of Britain anyone who is not ‘conducive to the public good’ is both illiberal and impractical.
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