Welcome to our new website. It’s a symbol of our continuing growth and development, and of our determination to carry on with our mission of ensuring that migrants have a louder voice in the media. That’s why the first call in one of the website’s new features, Call to Action, is an appeal for readers…
Migrant Voice stands in solidarity with the group of women at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Detention Centre who began a strike on 21 February. Last week we expressed that this was shocking because of the existence of inhumane conditions that have driven them to this extreme action, and because similar complaints were raised years ago by…
The latest ONS immigration stats show a fall in EU net migration with an upsurge in EU nationals leaving the UK – the highest in a decade. We are not surprised at the numbers of EU nationals who have decided to leave. The reason people have left and more will be leaving is due to…
We welcome the Scottish Government’s discussion paper that outlines an immigration policy tailored for Scotland. It is a policy that benefits both the host population and migrants, and is based on attitudes and principles that would benefit the UK as a whole. Most important of all, it shifts the current mean-spirited controversy about migration numbers…
The tragic experience of one refugee - Aram Sabah Xalid - trying to get from France to the UK was sufficiently sensational to make media headlines. It came after three refugees were killed on the roads outside Calais port in December, a month after a 15-year-old refugee was run over by a truck. Dramatic deaths make news and are shocking. But so…
A group of Conservative MPs are reportedly lobbying Prime Minister Theresa May to take international students out of the net migration figures. They are right. About 230,000 foreign students start courses in Britain every year. They form a big chunk of the estimated 588,000 migrants a year who enter Britain. So they have become a key…
2017 has been a whirlwind of a year; full of change, challenge, and potential opportunity. 2018 looks set to be no different. The world’s migrants have had to contend with a difficult year – widespread support across Europe for political parties preaching hatred and hostility, harmful refugee policies like the US travel ban or the…
On International Migrants Day, December 18, Migrant Voice is calling on British media to listen to migrant voices. On this day, we celebrate the contribution of migrants globally and in the UK; but to celebrate migrants, you must first hear our stories. Thirteen per cent of the UK’s population is foreign born, forming almost 16…
It’s a common criticism of politics that there is a style of debate whereby reports on key issues are produced, covered on the news for a day, and then sink without trace. The criticism rings true of the response to Louise Casey CB’s controversial report into integration. Since its release a year ago, almost nothing…
This week, a Syrian boy arrived in Hammersmith and Fulham - the first refugee to be brought to the borough from the camps in Greece. The Home Office identified him as extremely vulnerable fourteen months ago. They agreed he was eligible to come to the UK under their very limited refugee protection scheme. Two months later a…
