Migrant Voice is looking for a Communications Officer to implement Migrant Voice’s communications strategy to support our aims to bring migrants’ authentic voices into the media and migration debates and strengthen the communications capacity of the organisation and its members in London, Birmingham and Glasgow. As part of this work, the post holder will further…
In the latest of our occasional commentaries on the coverage of migration in the media, Daniel Nelson looks at the BBC's Big British Asian Summer. Please put your hands together in appreciation of some recent positive programmes about migrants. Yes, the media likes to highlight negative stories. Yes, as Migrant Voice research has shown, too…
Migrant Voice's briefing to MP's ahead of the 4 September parliamentary debate on international students whose visas were cancelled due to allegations of cheating. What we want • To draw parliament’s attention to the Home Office's decision to expel – thus ruining the lives of - tens of thousands of international students from Britain on…
From 29 August – 21 September, 2018 we are exhibiting a selection of photos from our 'Changing Lenses, London stories of integration’ project at the Guardian, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9GU. This work is the culmination of our ‘Changing Lenses, London stories of integration’ project which brought communities together to explore integration…
Betty Encinales is a Colombian migrant who sees the glass half-full rather than half-empty. Look around, she advises: migrants are a genuine part of the London community, working in every kind of job. “Can you imagine London without migrants for one day?” she muses, knowing that the answer is No. She sets an example…
Born in Rome, raised in Sudan, worked in UAE, and now living in the UK, Naglaa Ahmed says, “I have a lot of advice for new immigrants”. First, she says, you have to know the country you are living in. Know the rules, the laws and the people. Second, know the resources available to you.…
A Westminster Hall debate on the international students affected by the English Language test scandal will now take place on Tuesday 4 September. We are delighted with this development following the earlier promise of up to Eight MPs to press for a parliamentary debate in support of Migrant Voice’s campaign to clear the name of…
Mark was arrested at home in London and detained in 2015. During his two-and-a-half-month incarceration he was questioned about why he came to Britain from East Africa, and was examined by a Home Office doctor. The wound on his back was confirmed as a stab wound. He was moved between three immigration removal centres: Brook…
Windrush! It’s a powerful name, isn’t it? Rushing wind. A force of nature. It’s fitting for the Caribbeans who arrived in Tilbury in June 1948 on the Empire Windrush full of hope and inimitable Caribbean energy. The 70th anniversary should be a time for celebration. It remains to be seen what effect the recent scandal…
Xiaoxia Yin was born in China, moving between Shenzhen and Hong Kong while her parents worked there, enrolled in a US college, took an internship in Hong Kong and last summer worked at Migrant Voice in London. Now she's in Japan for a term. “Though I feel I am always myself with the same…
