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The worst journey in the Americas

The worst journey in the Americas

June 28, 2017

A review of The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail by Óscar Martínez Living in Nicaragua, I regularly meet people who have migrated or want to migrate to neighbouring countries. I’ve also met people who take their chances going to Spain without a visa (including one who claimed to be […]

Category: Migration, Latin America, Book reviews | Tags: Honduras, Nicaragua, drugs, Mexico, migration, Guatemala, El Salvador

Photo: Steve Helber/Associated Press

No separate queue for Cubans

January 17, 2017

‘We’re leaving,’ my Cuban friend N. told me in November. ‘We’re building a raft.’ I was shocked, partly because he planned to leave, partly because of the way he planned to do it. I consulted another friend, who’d spent several months in a coastguard team, hauling people out of the water when their rafts fell […]

Category: Migration, Latin America | Tags: Cuba, US intervention, migration | 2 Responses

Tackling discrimination in housing

Tackling discrimination in housing

September 27, 2016

Given the increase in race-related hate crime before and since June’s referendum, housing organisations need to be even more alert to possible discrimination in housing than they were before. CIH has already warned about the likely effects in the private rented sector of the new ‘right to rent’ document checks that began in England in […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: private rented sector, migration, race

The New Odyssey: The Story of Europe's Refugee Crisis by Patrick Kingsley

The refugee crisis brought to life

May 6, 2016

Patrick Kingsley is the Guardian’s migration correspondent, who as well as telling the story of recent migration to Europe in the newspaper has now produced an enthralling book, The New Odyssey, which is also bang up to date. Anyone who wants to know why people leave Syria, or Eritrea, or risk the crossing of the […]

Category: Migration, Book reviews | Tags: migration policy, migration, refugees

Overland from Cuba to Texas

Overland from Cuba to Texas

January 25, 2016

Thawing relations between the United States and Cuba have brought an upsurge in Cubans trying to leave the island. They’re worried that they may lose their favourable US immigration status, becoming no more welcome than any other Latino who fancies life in the US. Since 1995, the ‘wet foot, dry foot’ policy has deterred people […]

Category: Migration, Latin America | Tags: Cuba, US intervention, migration

Because Britain is able to turn away refugees at Calais, many people can claim asylum only by entering illegally. Photograph: Etienne Laurent/EPA

Housing associations can help keep refugees off the streets

November 1, 2015

Up to 90% of Syrian and other asylum seekers who make it to Britain face homelessness. Social landlords can offer advice, support – and homes. When the plight of Syrian refugees made September’s headlines, housing organisations rushed to offer rehousing across Britain. But can they contribute to the government’s resettlement scheme and, if not, how […]

Category: Housing, Migration | Tags: migration, asylum, refugees, destitution

Children crossing

Children crossing

July 11, 2014

There’s nothing new about children travelling alone through Central America and Mexico to get to the United States. The journey and its dangers were portrayed five years ago in the film Sin Nombre. One character, Sayra, a teenage girl from Honduras, ends up crossing the Rio Grande alone. She is looking out for Casper, a […]

Category: Migration, Latin America | Tags: Honduras, US intervention, Mexico, migration

Mothers of the disappeared

November 5, 2012

Three weeks ago a remarkable caravan of vehicles arrived at the Mexican town of Reynosa, just across the border from Hidalgo, Texas. It left the northern border of Nicaragua on 12 October, carrying the relatives of migrants who made the journey north to cross illegally into the United States, but vanished along the way. The […]

Category: Latin America | Tags: Mexico, migration

Charity cuts: who started them?

March 9, 2011

Eric Pickles’ announcement on 1st March  that councils will be in trouble if their cuts target the voluntary sector started a debate about whether councils are guilty or not.  This is presumably what the Secretary of State wanted when he accused local authorities of being ‘high-minded’, not listening to the sector and failing to give […]

Category: Housing | Tags: migration, outsourcing

Book review: ‘Sleepwalking to segregation’? – Challenging myths about race and migration by Nissa Finney and Ludi Simpson

Book review: ‘Sleepwalking to segregation’? – Challenging myths about race and migration by Nissa Finney and Ludi Simpson

February 26, 2009

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.

Category: Migration, Book reviews | Tags: community cohesion, migration, integration, race

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