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Migrateful participants holding a yellow banner during a London Cookery Class.

What Refugee Integration Strategies Work in the UK?

Behind all-encompassing labels like ‘refugee’ and ‘asylum seeker’ are real people, each with their individual stories and circumstances. Their reasons for seeking stay in the UK are diverse, dependent on an array of personal, environmental and historical factors. Some are fleeing war-torn zones or countries plagued by natural disasters, while…
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January 28, 2021
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Are the Home Office’s Immigration Policies Racist?

British Border Anxieties: The Hostile Environment, Brexit, and the Windrush Scandal Written by Julie Reintjes A new critical report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has found that the UK Home Office has broken equality legislation with its hostile environment policy.  The hostile environment is a set of…
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December 3, 2020
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Migrant rough sleepers being deported by government

It’s been revealed by Home Secretary Priti Patel that she plans to crack down on deporting migrant rough sleepers once the UK officially leaves the EU.Patel plans to grant the Home Office special powers to deport any EU national in the UK classed as homeless if it is found they…
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November 24, 2020
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Migration, Meals, and Food Poverty in the UK

Written by Julie ReintjesDespite the fact that the UK is one of the wealthier countries in the world, many people living here cannot afford to buy food. According to studies by the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation and the World Bank, in 2018 over 2 million people in the UK…
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November 12, 2020
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Me and Grandpa

What the Covid pandemic can teach us about the future of a kinder nation

My Grandpa died last week, age 85. I loved him dearly and on hearing the news I felt a deep grief. Yet it’s much easier to feel at peace with his death knowing it was natural and he had lived a long, happy life. By contrast, when I read about…
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June 11, 2020
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September 17, 2017

The privilege of home | Jess Thompson | OPENx 2017 Shortlist

In her poignant talk Jess explores the privilege of home and introduces us to people who have been forced to leave theirs with little hope of ever returning. With stories…
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September 17, 2017

Planes and Prejudice: cultural fault lines in the Meadows

Overcoming ethnic tensions in one of the UK's lowest-income council estates As part of the Year Here Fellowship, our team was asked to carry out a two-month consultancy project in the Meadows…
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September 17, 2017

The Beyond English Club

I want to live in a society where the likes of Jolanta, Claudia, Leonor, Ahmad and Noor can feel fully integrated members of our community. This is what inspired me to start the Beyond English Club…
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September 17, 2017

Falling From The Sky

I recently finished a six month placement at the Bromley-by-Bow community centre, located in Tower Hamlets, one of the poorest and most ethnically diverse boroughs in London. 43% of residents…
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Bombs, bare-bums and xenophobia
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September 17, 2017

Bombs, Bare-bums and Xenophobia

On holiday last July, we four Brits got changed behind some bushes beside a busy lake on the outskirts of Montpelier. To the groups delight, Tom mid-change tripped and fell…
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September 16, 2017

The privilege of home

I first experienced the intensity of leaving home aged eighteen heading off to spend three months in Senegal - an overwhelming sensation of anxiety, impossible to distinguish from excitement. To…
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