International Migrants Day is here again! On 18 December, people around the world celebrate all that's good about migration. We asked our members to do the same, whether in short blogs, letters or photos. Thank you to everyone who contributed - the outpouring of positive messages has been amazing! You can see all the photo…
There’s an important election coming up. And no, we’re not talking about the one on 12 December. Next May, London residents will go back to the polls to vote for the city’s next mayor. Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party is the current mayor – he was elected in 2016. At Migrant Voice, we’ve been…
On Tuesday 19 November, we published a report on the EU Settlement Scheme, which all EEA nationals and their families in the UK must apply to if they wish to continue living here after Brexit. The report, ‘Unsettling’, is based on responses to a survey that we conducted online in summer 2019, open to anyone eligible…
Feven was 16 when she first arrived in the UK as a refugee. “It was hard,” she says. “I felt alone, away from my family, all the long way from my country. You have to cross country, country, country, I was crying.” She had travelled from Eritrea and arrived in the UK in 1993 with…
As a Polish-origin teenager in the United States, Camille Gajewski-Richards often dreamed of escaping back to an idealised ‘old world’ brimming with urbane, colourful characters like artist Sonia Delaunay, a world her own parents had fled in the 1980s. “The Europe I envisioned was an antidote to the drab realities of the Soviet Bloc and American…
In early October, Stephen Timms MP received a letter from Immigration Minister Seema Kennedy regarding the tens of thousands of international students wrongly accused of cheating on an English test by the Home Office in 2014. Migrant Voice has been campaigning alongside the students on this issue for two years, and pressure from the 'My…
The Public Accounts Committee - the committee of MPs responsible for overseeing the Government's expenditure - has today published a report into the Government's reaction to allegations that some international students were cheating on an English language test in 2014. Around 34,000 students were accused of cheating and another 22,000 told their tests were questionable.…
It was Eid last week. It’s an Islamic festival and the full name is Eid ul-Adha (the festival of sacrifice). I had a really great time but I was also depressed as I live in the UK undocumented through no fault of my own and I’m suffering the consequences of it. When my family gathers…
Alena Bulatetskaya and Huixin Hu are two brilliant young musicians at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, in Glasgow. Alena moved to Scotland from Rostov-on-Don, a city in southern Russia, while Huixin Hu came to Glasgow from China. In their time together at the Royal Conservatoire they have formed a bond - through music and through…
Four beds are squeezed into a tiny room with dirty grey walls. There is hardly any space in the room. There’s also a shower and a toilet here, separated by a curtain. Sunlight illuminates the room through the bars. This tiny room in a detention center in Russia was the first home for new-born Nabotov…
