Migrant Voice: special publication launched
Migrant Voice: special publication launched
A one-off Migrant Voice newspaper delivered to selected MPs and other opinion-makers is now available here.
The 32-page newspaper features migrants involved in sport, cafes, poetry, volunteering, business, theatre, health, tattooing, traditional clothing, music and other aspects of life in Britain.
It also tackles pressing issues such as exorbitant visa fees, detention, racism experienced by care workers, undocumented workers, modern slavery, weekend schools for minority groups, and a new attempt to tackle “one of the biggest scandals in British legal history”.
The paper is part of Migrant Voice’s 15th anniversary activities. An editorial commentary by Migrant Voice director Nazek Ramadan slams the “increasingly negative debate” about migration in those 15 years, “inaccurate media reports, wild claims by politicians, increasingly followed by a perfect storm of bad practices and policies…” and points to migrants' enormous contribution to British life.
- Click here for a digital version of the newspaper. Individual articles can be found in various sections of this website.
The individual articles are:
- Another 15 years of hostility — or will Labour change the tune?
- Speaking for ourselves: a letter from the director
- One of the biggest injustices in British legal history
- Visa fees: ‘Cash cows and political footballs’
- The excessive price of being a migrant
- The campaigner who likes to cook
- Mind your own business - and help the country
- How a Ukrainian refugee built a Dream Cafe in London
- Migrant tattooists make their mark
- ‘With music there’s no language barrier’
- ‘Surely that’s is not how my life was meant to be’
- Reframing the debate: Beyond the politics of illegality and deservingness
- Flower-power brings Brummie smiles
- Undocumented workers trapped in limbo
- Migration ‘likely to be a hot topic for years’
- A bigger picture
- Lack of support for freed victims of modern slavery
- Care Workers call for action against racism
- Gap year misery for refugees
- Poetry on the move
- It’s back to school at the weekend
- The joys of volunteering
- Music to British ears
- 21-year wait for for a chance to start over
- Getting in on the act
- Working hard and still dreaming
- Helping build Britain, brick by brick
- Heritage on the catwalk
- Volleyball — more than a sport
- A level playing field for everyone
- Imolele keeps running into new people, and a new life
- Snytsina’s journey from sport through acting to activism
Photo credit for main paper cover photo: Lauren Hurley, No 10 Downing Street