Excellent explainer of Shabana Mahmood's proposed changes to refugee and asylum policy

Cruelty isn’t a solution - and it’s not a distraction we should fall for.

The real issues we face - fixing the NHS, building affordable housing, reducing wealth inequality - are not solved by making life harder for people seeking safety.

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Timely issue of @fmreview.bsky.social ahead of #COP30 on ‘Climate change: choices for displaced people’
www.fmreview.org/climate-choi...

Zohran Mamdani thanks immigrants 'so often forgotten by the politics' YouTube video by Associated Press

New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani thanks immigrants and says 'we will fight for you because we are you ' . So good
youtube.com/watch?v=zP96...

Radical with Amol Rajan - Climate Migration: Confronting the Reality of Global Warming (Gaia Vince) - BBC Sounds Gaia Vince makes the positive case for immigration despite public concern over the issue.

Great to hear a positive case for migration on the BBC. @wanderinggaia.bsky.social on Radical with Amon Rajan saying global heating will cause more migration, albeit mostly within countries, and we can benefit from it.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Elected, Marina Lademacher, Queen's Park

🎉 A NEW GREEN COUNCILLOR IN BRIGHTON & HOVE

Marina Lademacher has been elected as the new Green councillor for Queen's Park!

@greenparty.org.uk

Looking at the piles I think it might be a Green win here but the figures are not out. #LDreporter #Brighton

Today - 03/06/2025 - BBC Sounds News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

Such a moving interview on #r4today with Laila Soueif on hunger strike in attempt to get the UK to do more to push Egypt to release her son British writer and activist Alaa abd el-Fattah .
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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@sianberry.bsky.social please support Borders Bill Amendment NC1 so that we know every person who dies seeking our protection and can learn from it
#Knowtheirnames

Does human rights law really stop the UK controlling migration? No – and Keir Starmer knows that | Jamie Burton It would be wrong for Labour to collude in the attack on the European convention. It’s fuelled by myths and false narratives, says human rights barrister Jamie Burton

Why Labour should be seizing the narrative on human rights and not attacking the ECHR
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...?

FMR 76 'Climate change: choices for displaced people' - Forced Migration Review

We’ve extended the deadline for our call for article proposals for our theme of #ClimateChange: choices for displaced people!

Submit your article proposals via the online form by 14th May 2025, 23:00 GMT.

See: www.fmreview.org/climate-change-cfa/

#Displacement #Refugees #Migration #AcademicSky

Great opportunity for activists, community organisers, politicians, lawyers and scholars to reflect on the #sanctuarymovement and the challenges it faces in south-east England
#sanctuarysolidarities
easternarc.ac.uk/news/sanctua...

1 The article’s based on a govt briefing - they’re clearly thinking about it
2 Labour have been obsessed with offshoring of various sorts for 20+ years
3 Other European govts are considering this too & Italy has already tried
4 I don’t agree we need to wait till it’s a reality before opposing it

Stunning story of how an Atlantic journalist was inadvertently added to a Signal group that shared top secret US plans to attack the Houthis

Utterly shameful - a sickening betrayal of some of the poorest people. And counterproductive too - as if global security isn’t also dependent on efforts to tackle the climate crisis, global poverty, inequality, and humanitarian needs.

The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe Williams The truth is paralysing. But after JD Vance met the far-right leader Alice Weidel in Germany, it is time to be clear about what we are seeing, writes Zoe Williams

The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it?
Zoe Williams names it for us

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Apply for: Director | NFP Consulting Director c£55,000 - £60,000 Full time Hybrid and flexible working - it is envisage that for this post you would need to be in the office at least 50% of the time Voices in Exile works with ...

Great job going in Brighton: Director of @voicesinexile.bsky.social , the leading charity supporting refugees and asylum seekers in the city.
nfpconsulting.co.uk/executive/jo...

A reminder of my take on the Green party’s manifesto on immigration & asylum.

It was full of good, workable & effective ideas that simply never get a hearing in mainstream media
(Sorry I had to do a super awkward edit cos @bsky.app limits vids to under 1minute still 😤😤)

Group of Labour MPs urge No 10 to be tougher on migration to fend off Reform Exclusive: Pressure group set up by MPs from seats where Reform came second amid concern about party’s rise

When will Govt learn you can’t out-Reform Reform - you end up simply legitimising their toxic narrative. To see off populists, Labour needs to invest in public services & local communities, making a real difference to people’s lives - levy a wealth tax & use it to improve people’s lives *now*

So much for supporting our troops.

@merielbeattie.bsky.social
Welcome Meriel! Great to see you on here

what a warm and moving farewell to Mishal Husain on #r4today . Such a brilliant presenter, she will be much missed

Brussels blesses Poland's plan to temporarily suspend asylum right The new guidelines put forward by Brussels reflect the right-wing shift that is rapidly reshaping the bloc's migration and asylum policy. #EuropeNews

There is something especially dark, cynical and shameless about today's Commission Communication on the 'weaponisation' of migration. A troubling endorsement of European states' violations of international and EU law, which doubly punishes people in need of safety.

www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

The 🇪🇺 Commission embraces the framing of migration at the Eastern borders as a ”weapon” and speaks of ”hybrid threats” & ”hybrid attacks”.
It says that ”Member States may need to adopt measures that could entail serious interferences with fundamental rights, such as the right to asylum…”

Los Angeles fires a first shot of resistance to Trump’s plan for mass deportations of migrants 👏👏👏 #sanctuarycity

So many people have been coming on here over the past few days . Exciting . Maybe it can work as an alternative to that other place

Francis FitzGibbon · Diary: Why I Resigned The plan to ‘off-shore’ asylum seekers to Rwanda was the last straw. In May 2023, I resigned as a (part-time)...

This piece by an immigration judge explaining why he resigned is well worth a read. He felt the role was "
irrevocably tainted by the politics of asylum"
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Please throw a beak full of water on to a forest fire by donating to this amazing organisation that supports young refugees in the UK
chuffed.org/project/the-...

Great to see a positive outcome from scoping work I did a while ago for the IRC

How teachers are helping refugee children to heal through art The IRC’s Healing Classrooms programme trains schools and educators on how to offer refugee and asylum-seeking children a safe place to learn and thrive after experiencing conflict and crisis. Teach...

How teachers help refugee children heal through art - Brighton’s EMAS uses methods & resources International Rescue has developed with refugees around the world #healingclassrooms