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MRN joins the rest of the world in celebrating International Women’s Day 2016.
We particularly mark the participation of women in the world’s migration flows. They participate at all levels, from skilled innovators working on the threshold of new ideas and discoveries; as...
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Exploitation in ‘ethnic enclaves’: Why immigration enforcement is not the answer
Seventy percent of immigration enforcement action directed against businesses takes place in ethnic minority neighbourhoods. This is a recipe for perpetuating racism and exploitation – not defeating...
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Where angels lead, economists have also trod
Christian conscience came up to the mark this weekend when the leader of the Catholic Church and his Orthodox counterpart spoke up the thousands of refugees stranded on Lesvos. Their welcome...
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Ten years on – what are we learning from campaigns for the rights of migrants?
MRN was launched as a networking project in November 2006. As we approach our 10th anniversary what has been learnt about the best ways to win rights for migrants? It is getting on to ten years since...
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Operation Nexus: Is it illegally forcing EU nationals out of the UK?
The insidious expansion of immigration enforcement activities into other areas of public life is becoming an increasing menace to the human and legal rights of many migrant communities. Operation...
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Why are migrants vulnerable to exploitation?
New interest in what we are learning to call modern slavery is leading to increased public awareness that there are groups of people in the world today who get a very raw deal out of the labour...
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The Great EU Welfare Benefits Scam. Real or imagined?
Claims that EU migrants see Britain’s welfare benefits as a ‘pull’ factor have been consistently demolished by study after study. But this hasn’t laid these clearly bogus claims to rest. What’s going...
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London Mayor: What could Sadiq Khan achieve for migration policy in the...
A new website reporting on community action on migration in London has set out some important ideas of what could be achieved for a city in which one-third of its population was born outside the UK....
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EU migrants...coming over here and boosting our rights and economy!
Workers’ rights seem to be one of the invisible benefits of EU free movement. They arrived as a result of the ability of people to cross borders for work. Are they an under-rated or even forgotten...
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In or Out of the EU, it is global labour markets that drive migration in...
In the world we live in today immigration is not a tap you can turn on or off at will. We look at a new book that helps us understand how it fits in with emergence of global labour markets, and won’t...
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Xenophobia and racism has swamped the EU referendum debate – let this be a...
The week opens with the shock of the brutal murder of Jo Cox still pervasive. Think about this during the final days of the referendum campaign. Baroness Sayeeda Warsi’s judgment of the tone of the...
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The referendum vote: What will happen to the rights of migrants?
We respond to the outcome of the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union. The vote to leave the European Union has thrown politics into a massive period of uncertainty.It is clear that...
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EU citizens in the UK – Theresa May’s bargaining chips?
These are troubling times in the UK for EU migrants and anyone else with a migrant heritage. And if Theresa May becomes PM, EU nationals could find themselves being used as bargaining chips in some...
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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...
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