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Open borders campaign

Monday 26 September 2011
Ken McLaughlin
Struck off for wanting a better life
Social workers are supposed to encourage people to improve their lot. So why has a Nigerian man been banned for doing that?

Monday 12 April 2010
Brendan O’Neill
Turning migrants into status symbols
The ‘I Love Migrants’ campaign confirms that being ‘pro-migrant’ is now a form of cultural snobbery.

Tuesday 23 March 2010
Brendan O’Neill
Turning immigration into a tool of social engineering
ELECTION ESSAY: The elite now expresses its snobbery and authoritarianism by being ‘pro-immigration’ rather than anti-immigration.

Wednesday 17 March 2010
Manick Govinda
New Labour’s Iron Curtain for artists
Ludicrously strict visa rules for artists and academics from overseas are strangling cultural life in the UK.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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