Tag: migration
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The Nationality and Borders Bill is a threat to human life
OPINION A moral and ethical debate has been stirred across the UK in the wake of the Nationality and Borders Bill that passed the House of Commons in December 2021 and is currently in the Committee Stage in the House of Lords. The bill drastically redesigns the UK’s asylum system by implementing catastrophic barriers for […]
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Dictator with feet of clay: what we learnt from Lukashenko’s BBC interview
ANALYSIS “We’ll massacre all the scum that you have been financing” – fighting words from Europe`s last dictator, Alexander Lukashenko. During his interview with BBC’s Moscow correspondent, Steve Rosenberg, Lukashenko expressed his contempt for what he calls Western-sponsored NGOs in Belarus. Lukashenko can hardly hold back his anger against the questions posed by Rosenberg on […]
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The political games threatening human life at the Poland-Belarus border
CN: death ANALYSIS The ‘migration crisis’ between Poland and Belarus may have hit the mainstream global news cycle in early November, but the origins of the contest reach much farther back. The crux of the issue is not about migration specifically, but is in fact a broader political disagreement between the EU and Belarus’ Lukashenka. […]
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Orbán’s crusader rhetoric and EU migration policy: a spurious discord
CN: this article contains discussion of xenophobia and Islamophobia As Afghanistan reeled from the dramatic takeover by the Taliban and thousands of people made desperate attempts to flee to safety, Europe’s enfant terrible Victor Orbán was already making it clear they wouldn’t find it in his backyard. Following a joint session in Budapest on 8 […]
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Ceuta and Melilla: externalised border control, systematic violence
CN: this article contains discussion of xenophobia and violence OPINION Between 17 and 19 May 2021, some 10 000 migrants crossed the border into Spain’s North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Morocco had relaxed its border controls in Ceuta in retaliation against Spain’s decision to allow Brahim Gali, a leader of the Polisario Front – a militant organisation opposed […]
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