Asylum seekers
Ed Miliband and Britain’s anti-immigrant backlash
The politics behind Ed Miliband’s long-awaited speech on immigration are pretty straightforward. Polling – and Labour activists’ experience on the doorstep – suggest that immigration remains a big concern for large numbers of working-class voters. Unless Labour engages with a conversation going on in ‘every kitchen’, as Ed Miliband puts it, the [...]
By Owen Jones | Eagle Eye, Notebook, Opinion, iPolitics | Friday, 22 June 2012 at 6:42 pm
Asylum seekers: When the questions tell us so much more than the answers
For the last four years I’ve been paying my karmic dues (I would say “contributing to the big society”, but it makes me feel a bit sick in my mouth) by teaching English to a group of asylum seeking women in East London. This is what they want to know.
By Kate Smurthwaite | Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 29 May 2012 at 2:05 am
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