“If all the Europeans leave, who work so hard and they pay taxes, how are they going to manage to keep the benefit system in the first place?”
We are witnessing cumulative processes of politicization – struggles and organization involving migrant workers and activists setting out to build awareness locally, and link up globally.
A witness account of a small sample of the ongoing police racism that is playing out all over Calais every day, since the eviction of the ‘Jungle’. Two hours. Seventeen people of colour detained. Nine arrested.
In the second part of the series on key inter-related aspects of the upheaval facing European countries and their citizens: how should the EU tackle the issue of internal migration?
Brexit could prompt hundreds of thousands of British retirees to return from continental Europe, placing additional strain on the UK’s health and social welfare systems.
We need to accept that for millions of refugees persecution is the principal reason for flight today as it was before, during and after the Holocaust.
Refugees are using other, often more dangerous, routes, contributing to the increase in migrant deaths that we have seen in 2016.
We historians at the University of Warwick are very concerned about the racism that is becoming increasingly commonplace over Britain, especially in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.
Often, things that are seen as a problem in society are not: the house where locals and refugees live and work together.
How best can we Europeans re-establish at least a semblance of moral and economic justice in the future conduct of EU migration policy?
Even where populists don’t win power through the ballot box, they gain it through shaping policy and public debate.
