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Katy Long

@mobilitymuse

Storytelling: words and sounds. #Immigration and #Refugees. Newsletter at https://teapawt.net/t.co/Zu2SQAXhTv

 San Francisco... (via London)
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Joined March 2011
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It’s HUMAN rights not FAMILY rights. I have to manage digestion of the new UK immigration proposals to one shock per hour - this one is especially absurd & cruel. It’s also very relevant to my current work around the problematic construction of family in social & migration policy
Jennifer Blair (@SqueakinglyJen) profile pictureJennifer Blair@SqueakinglyJen7 Mar 2023
Replying to @SqueakinglyJen
Holy cow. A person is excluded from British citizenship if they have ever met the unlawful entry provisions ever but also so are their British born children if EITHER parent ever entered illegally - again I’d say the application to children is pretty clear unlawful discrimination
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This is what a culture war looks like. Where are those freedom of speech advocates when you need them?
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Image from Gary Younge (@garyyounge)
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Just crossed Darién Gap w/500 migrants from across world. Saw best & worst of humanity but mostly humanity. 23yo diabetic died—no insulin. Wife,toddler & rest had to bury him in mud & go on. Dehumanizing policies distract from failure to meet challenge of our time: Refugee planet
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BBC reporting on DPRK (North Korea) overlaid on queen funeral procession
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Katy Long retweeted
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Ben Rhodes
@brhodes28 Jun 2022
Think of how extremist the Republican Parry has to be to defend Trump despite the fact that he literally wanted to lead a violent coup. Just totally new territory in American history since Civil War.
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You can directly ring the airline responsible for the Rwanda deportation flight (Privilege style) and tell them what you think. As of a minute ago they're still picking up the phone.+34971408985
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Hey Iberojet - is it only some refugees that matter? @iberojetair_es, @privilege757 and @TitanAirways: it’s time to rule out being part of the UK government’s dodgy cash for refugees deal. #RefugeesWelcome #Rwanda #PrivilegeStyle #TitanAirways #Iberojet
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Syrians. It's 15 Syrians who have been served with a removal notice that they'll be sent away to Rwanda on 14 June. We cannot stand for this barbarism. Syrians refugees, ALL refugees are welcome here.
Zoe Gardner (@ZoeJardiniere) profile pictureZoe Gardner@ZoeJardiniere31 May 2022
Replying to @ZoeJardiniere
Johnson probably believes that if he can get one poor asylum seeker who is seeking protection from atrocities at our shores onto a plane to Rwanda, he can survive a confidence vote. It's the most despicable explanation I can think of and so it's probably the right one.
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Replying to @mobilitymuse @JenniferAllsopp
Eritreans I spoke to in Ug said they were pushed/had fled across the border with Israel's payoff money ($2500) then had to decide whether to spend this on travel to somewhere else (often Libya), or hope it didn't run out before they found work in Uganda's straining economy.
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The UK government isn't the first to send its refugees to Rwanda. Israel tried it 5 years ago - in this @BBCRadio4 documentary @mobilitymuse spoke to Israeli MP @Michal_Rozin to find out what happened. Worth a listen: it's just 2 mins from 18'30 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0010p…
100 Years of Exile - How do refugee crises end? - BBC Sounds

100 Years of Exile - How do refugee crises end? - BBC Sounds

Katy Long concludes her history of 100 years of refugee politics.

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Read all about the outcome of Israeli offshoring efforts to Rwanda here. This is just more desperate cruelty from Patel that will only be celebrated by international gangs of smugglers & traffickers. It will not make refugees disappear. #r4today law.ox.ac.uk/research-subjec…
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Ditto Michael Gove crying in parliament about how it isn’t fair that his party is accused of being hostile to refugees today when he voted for this shit in the #NationalityAndBordersBill
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Image from Zoe Gardner (@ZoeJardiniere)
Zoe Gardner (@ZoeJardiniere) profile pictureZoe Gardner@ZoeJardiniere14 Mar 2022
Certain commentators who literally published whole papers about how refugees coming to the UK should be sent to camps on Ascension Island a couple of weeks ago need to quiet their mouths talking about Ukrainians today. That's all.
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One of the most extraordinary videos I’ve ever seen. The first woman is holding up a sign that says ‘two words’.
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It is hard to overstate the human pain contained in this chart. Chilling.
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Since I wrote a whole damn book on the subject, I thought I’d share some informed observations on here about wealthy Russians avoiding sanctions or disappearing behind second and third citizenships 🧵
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While we're on terrible disasters... let's not forget Afghanistan where 95% of the population do not have enough to eat and described as “the worst humanitarian crisis on earth” dec.org.uk/appeal/afghanista…
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A damning read, and every word absolutely spot on. In full here: ft.com/content/2d3fca5f-7dd1…
The UK’s shameful Ukrainian refugee policy

The UK’s shameful Ukrainian refugee policy

The Home Office’s stance is defined by complexity and confusion

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Yesterday in #PMQs @BorisJohnson claims that the UK has done more than anyone else in Europe to support refugees & that the measures to support Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion are very generous, both statements are very far from the truth. 1/ #Refugees #Ukraine
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Poland has revolutionized migration policy. We have received 500,000 refugees and do not have a single refugee camp. Most of them are taken in by Polish families. Almost all my friends in Warsaw have someone from Ukraine at home tonight. – at Warsaw, Poland
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This is incredible. Undocumented people in Ireland are going to be given the opportunity to become Irish citizens, "improv[ing] the lives of thousands who were contributing to society but had to live in the legal shadows." 🙌👏 bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-…

Ireland gives undocumented migrants path to citizenship

Irish Justice Minister Helen McEntee says it is a "once-in-a-generation" scheme.

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