What 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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Regional Visas: Could they be a game-changer for the immigration debate?
A recently-launched London Chamber of Commerce report called for a ‘London Visa’ for migrants seeking jobs in the capital. But what about the rest of the country? Could visas adjusted to meet the...
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Immigration statistics: Still coming, and still making lives and homes in the UK
If the UK is supposed to be becoming a more hostile environment for migrants, the latest figures from the Home Office show there is stiff resistance to the trend. It is essential that this continues....
View ArticleCasey Review: Is this really about ‘opportunity and integration’?
Is the Casey Review a positive and progressive step along the road to social cohesion in the UK? Or is it just another 'pop' at Britain's Muslim communities and a missed opportunity? UKREN's Alan...
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International Migrants Day 2016: Time to rally in support of the rights of...
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...
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Season's Greetings and Farewell from our Director!
MRN Director Don Flynn is stepping down after a decade at the helm. Here he wishes all our friends and supporters the compliments of the season and says farewell. Dear FriendsSeason’s Greetings at...
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The challenges facing migrants' rights campaigners in 2017
MRN's new Director, Fizza Qureshi, welcomes the New Year and the major challenges it brings. The picture may look bleak, but that's no reason for pessimism. It's a spur to building alliances and...
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MRN 10th Anniversary: We promise renewed campaigning for the rights of all...
MRN’s celebration of the tenth anniversary of its work took place last Thursday at the Richmix Centre in Bethnal Green – the heart of one of the oldest immigrant neighbourhoods in Britain....
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Walls and borders
Are walls and tighter border controls the answer to the big questions on immigration? Do they achieve what their advocates set out to do? Or should the world aim to return to a time when less...
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Can we build an effective resistance to the hatred and division of today?
20 February marks the first national boycott and day of action by migrants, their friends and supporters in answer to the toxic anti-migrant rhetoric that has infected British political debate of...
View ArticleOn the route to your rights: what have we learned so far?
What difficulties are migrants to the UK likely to face? In particular what makes them vulnerable to homelessness, destitution and exploitation in the workplace? Gracie Bradley looks back at Phase One...
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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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