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Brexit and potential human rights implications
A small majority of UK voters said that the UK should leave the EU in the referendum on 23 June. UKREN’s Alan Anstead looks at some of the main human rights implications of the UK government invoking...
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Brexit: The residence, social and youth rights we must campaign to protect
We set out the three areas where we have to formulate actions and policies to protect the rights of EU migrants and young people. A month ought to have been long enough to assemble thoughts...
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Brexit negotiations: What rights and interests will shape the future form of...
Views on what will replace free movement are still scattered and diffuse. Important economic interests are only beginning to set out their concerns about the future. If we are going to influence what...
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What makes a migrant vulnerable?
We hear a lot about vulnerable migrants. We hear a lot less about what actually makes a migrant vulnerable. Can you only be vulnerable if you’re a woman, or a child, or the survivor of a traumatic...
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Workplace immigration checks and raids: What needs to be done
Many migrants have to live with the experience of a double-jeopardy: vulnerable to exploitation at the hands of unscrupulous employers and also the threat of enforcement action of immigration...
View ArticleLabour conference: Corbyn stakes his hopes on a migration impact fund
Gasps of faux shock greeted the parts of Jeremy Corbyn’s speech that dealt with immigration at his party’s conference last week. It shouldn’t have. In breaking with the anti-immigrant consensus he...
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Government agenda - Roll back the rights of all migrants
The policy pronouncements at the Conservative conference show how far the government is prepared to go to turn migration into a rights-free zone. Both EU and the third country migrants will lose out...
View ArticleWhat can Scotland teach England about attitudes to immigration?
The Scottish government has promised a fight to defend freedom of movement as the UK moves towards Brexit. Why is the issue of immigration viewed so differently by politicians and voters on the north...
View ArticlePost-Brexit immigration policy: let’s keep our powder dry
The rush to write the UK’s immigration policy for the post-Brexit epoch might well be unwise given the fact that so many of the major stakeholders have yet to show their hand The referendum vote in...
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‘One Day Without Us’ - how do we turn a good idea into a brilliant campaign?
Make sure 20 February is in your diary for a UK-wide day of action in solidarity with migrants. Here are some ideas on how we can increase the impact of this action and ensure its success. The...
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