'Refugees are often put in life or death situations where they have no choice but to be resilient' Gulwali Passarlay @GulwaliP at
@IRiS_Birmingham seminar today #TheLightlessSky
Such a readable, compelling and moving book, really looking forward to hosting @GulwaliP@IRiS_Birmingham @CoSS_Birmingham @UoBSocialPolicy this afternoon at 3.30 - room 1150 Muirhead Tower @news_ub
IRiS announces new director: Professor Nando Sigona takes the lead of the Institute from founding director Professor Jenny Phillimore https://t.co/01gkGRir1q
So. Looks like we’re probably getting an “Australian style points based system”, as the UK’s new immigration system then. What, exactly, that will actually look like is still pretty vague, but to get a handle on the basic concepts, read this: https://t.co/YKszxqu2hh
"In London diversity is a fact of life and not even #Brexit can change it", Marie and Paddy tell @UKEurochildren
Join us for the launch of #IntheshadowofBrexit portrait series on Thursday at 5pm at Europe House in London
https://t.co/qsC04GjDPo
Great to have @asirt1 joining our panel for the launch of #UndocumentedMigration on 11 December @unibirmingham.
Look forward to hearing about the impact of #hostileenvironment on people with no or precarious legal status
to register: https://t.co/xJjZTDC7n9
#birmingham
The piece itself encapsulates our society's schizophrenic response to #undocumentedmigration, to put crudely, the only good migrant is the dead one. The rest are preys for us to hunt.
And this is in @guardian, can you imagine the rest?
Hunt?
What a word to use for a story like this, it says a thousand words on whoever came up with it
Hunt for migrants after boat spotted at Kent coast village
https://t.co/vtMNlsbZRD
When I see this list I can't stop thinking to the thousands of African migrants who died in the Mediterranean left without a name and whose families have been left wondering about their fate #grays#Vietnamese
https://t.co/mWqT9UUfAt
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