All over the world migrant communities and their supporters will be marking this Sunday 18 December as International Migrants Day. With the threat of the wholesale loss of rights coming from draconian immigration legislation and a hard Brexit, we should be using this to build more support for a fighting campaign to resist all the attacks on migrant communities that loom in the period ahead.
The number of people living as international migrants now stands at 244 million according to UN statistics. - a rise of 41% since 2000.
As a proportion of the world’s population of just over 7 billion the number of people mobile across international frontiers now makes up a rather modest 3.3% of everyone on the planet – up from 2.8% back at the start of the millennium.
