Let’s celebrate Mo Farah
Perhaps like other readers of Migration Pulse, I was under the impression that Mo Farah, who won the 10,000m Gold Medal on Saturday evening, was a former refugee. Looking into his background, I find he isn’t – but it doesn’t matter.
Could housing organisations give more support to migrant groups?
Migrant community groups are often ‘below the radar’ of local council housing departments or housing associations. Why is this so and could they do more?
Migration – who will take the lead at local level?
As we know, the government’s policy about what happens in cities and neighbourhoods is based on its principles of ‘localism’ and encouraging the ‘Big Society’. On the other hand, its policies on migration are essentially national ones – cutting net migration and introducing a whole raft of detailed changes in the different kinds of migration […]
Book review: ‘Sleepwalking to segregation’? – Challenging myths about race and migration by Nissa Finney and Ludi Simpson
Sleepwalking to Segregation? challenges many of the myths about migration and ethnic groups in Britain. Here are some of the myths – and the real evidence – about issues that often come up in discussion about housing and communities, as considered in the book.
On the margins
John Perry and Azim El Hassan As we near the third anniversary of the London bombings, it’s a good moment to reflect on whether housing organisations have done enough to engage with Muslim communities. We are all aware that there has been a backlash against Muslims, made worse every time there is a new incident […]
John Perry lives in Masaya, Nicaragua where he works on