The new immigration bill, ending free movement within the EU, may be intended create a ‘high-skill’ economy, but comes at a high cost for the British society. Embed from Getty Images On Monday 18th of May, the House of Commons accepted the proposed new immigration bill by 351 votes to 252. Such a development is …
Posts Tagged: migration
27 Feb 2019 In Blog By Admin JAN Trust
We need to focus on low-paid work if we are to succeed in closing the pay gap
Embed from Getty Images Striking cleaners from the union United Voices of the World stage a picket protest outside the Ministry of Justice Headquarters in London in August 2018. Initiatives to close the gender pay gap have so far focused heavily on highly-paid employment, such as getting more women CEOs and women into boardrooms. This …
05 Dec 2018 In Blog By Admin JAN Trust
Windrush: the inevitable result of hostile and racist immigration policy
The Windrush generation is formed of the people who arrived in the UK from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1971 at the invitation of the British government. Since 2014, 50,000 of these people have faced risk of deportation if they did not previously formalise their residency status or if they were unable to show the …
25 May 2018 In Blog By Admin JAN Trust
The Windrush scandal is proof that institutional racism still prevails
On the 25th anniversary of the Stephen Lawrence murder, the Windrush scandal shows that institutional racism across UK organisation is still prevalent, in text book form. The murder of Stephen Lawrence has changed the legal landscape of the UK forever. Most notably, with the outcome of the MacPherson report bringing to the attention of the …
21 Sep 2015 In Blog By Admin JAN Trust
“No one puts their children in a boat….”
In the recent weeks the world’s newspapers have been dominated by the refugee crisis. But nothing was quite as heartbreaking as the photo which showed the lifeless body of three year-old Aylan Kurdi, a Syrian child who fled the civil war with his family, washed up on a Turkish beach. Apparently, the debated decision to …
01 May 2014 In Blog By Admin JAN Trust
Women torture victims detained in the UK
Attitudes towards asylum seekers and refugees have long been hardening across the UK and Europe more widely. In a climate of financial insecurity and social unrest, anti-immigration parties have been gaining popular support which has stiffened the resolve of mainstream politicians to tough talk on immigration. Yet, lost behind alarmist posters telling voters 26 million foreigners want …