#Disconnection#CellPhones#Migrants#AsylumSeekers: "This article investigates online connection and disconnection practices among migrants and asylum seekers. It draws from an ethnography of three Sicilian reception centres that hosted migrants and asylum seekers between September and November 2020. We show how migrants, driven by different migratory motivations, enact different mobile connection and disconnection practices. We argue that these are characterised by the different affective meanings that migrants and asylum seekers attach to mobile connection and disconnection and by the different value they place on the public and private dimensions of their lives. By offering a multifaceted portrait of the mobile connection and disconnection practices of different categories of migrants, this article also contributes to: (1) media and migration studies, by showing that there are substantial differences in online connection practices and smartphone use between asylum seekers and migrants and (2) to disconnection studies, by highlighting the nuances that exist within disconnection practices among non-privileged social groups, such as migrants and asylum seekers. We show that they cannot afford to practise typically Western, urban and elitist forms of disconnection; however, they too are able to practise specific forms of disconnection, paradoxically afforded by staying connected. The article aims to contextualise and situate disconnection studies within different social, political, cultural and geographic contexts." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448241249371
This book offers an exploration of #work-life balance, focusing on #parents, #academics, the self-employed, and #migrants. It examines self-care, #childcare, and informal care dynamics.
"For all the attention on the border, the root causes of migration and the most promising solutions to the U.S.’s broken immigration system are often overlooked."
Northern Ireland is now a sanctuary for migrants in fear of the Tories' Rwanda deportation policy.
The High Court of Northern Ireland has struck down key elements of UK Illegal Migration Act, as incompatible with the Windsor Agreement between the EU & UK.
It also ruled that other aspects remain incompatible with the ECHR.
So, those migrants who might have skipped over the border to the RoI, now can remain in NI from where it would seem they now cannot be deported.
Elle a osé le dire: "Je ne fais pas de lien, comme le fait le Rassemblement National, entre l’immigration et la délinquance", déclare Valérie Hayer sur Europe 1 et Cnews ce dimanche. Pas besoin, Macron et Darmanin le font déjà depuis un moment pour justifier leur sinistre loi immigration, le ministre de l'Intérieur avait fait ce lien (faux évidemment) dans une interview au Figaro)...
Thousands of migrant care workers have been threatened with deportation, despite doing nothing wrong, after the Home Office took enforcement action against their employers.
In 94% of cases, the reason for the cancellation was that the company that hired them had its right to sponsor workers revoked.
Ludicrous, when we're desperate for care workers in the UK.
Migrants and asylum seekers reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers as they wait between two border walls to apply for asylum in San Diego. Hundreds of people remain waiting between the two walls, many for days
Migrants walk in water as they attempt to board a smuggler’s boat to cross the Channel from the beach in Gravelines. UK ministers this week acknowledged for the first time that they are detaining asylum seekers to be removed to Rwanda, prompting demonstrations outside Home Office buildings
l’ #UE a transformé la Tunisie en piège à #migrants !
L’ #Europe a exporté sa crise en Tunisie et que ses #politiques n’ont jamais été un modèle de respect des droits de l’Homme ou de sa dignité. « Ces gens sont capables de tout faire, l’important est qu’aucun #migrant ne leur parvienne, ils ont réussi à exporter le phénomène, ils ont fait ce qu’ils veulent en Tunisie (…)
The newest of my Decay Theory articles just went live on Atlas Obscura! In it, we explore the struggling town of Gary, Indiana to determine how a once-thriving city winds up with over 7,000 abandoned buildings. It's an important story, not just for Gary residents, but for many American towns facing similar issues.
@AbandonedAmerica It reminds me of places like Schenectady NY, which has been rejuvenated by immigrants. A few thousand of the #migrants that Texas and Florida are demonizing could really make a difference to a dying city
David Noriega investigates the deaths and disappearances of Moroccan migrants as they attempt to cross the #Spanish border at #Melilla and examines how outsourced #European#immigration policies may ultimately be responsible for these tragedies.
An asylum seeker walks past tents beside the International Protection Office (IPO), where hundreds of migrants in search of accommodation have been sleeping on the streets for several months with more arriving every day, Dublin, Ireland. Ireland's government has said it plans to introduce emergency legislation to resume sending migrants back to Britain REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne
Who in their right mind would now conclude any agreement with the London Govt?
Despite an agreement (from 2020) that the UK would accept returned asylum seekers, (now facilitated by legislation designating the UK a 'safe country') Ireland wants to repatriate some, only Rishi Sunak is refusing.
Quite apart from the morality & (in)humanity of the Tories migrant policies (which is bad enough), now he's also further trashing our reputation for keeping to agreements.
One(!) voluntary failed asylum seeker departed for Rwanda yesterday ... as Yvette Cooper observes
The 'Tories are so desperate to get any flight off to Rwanda before the local elections that they have now just paid someone to go...
British taxpayers aren’t just forking out £3,000 for a volunteer to board a plane, they are also paying Rwanda to provide him with free board & lodgings for the next five years... [and] is likely to be costing on average £2mn per person.”
Italy bans planes that search for migrant boats from using airports (www.independent.co.uk)
Charity Sea Watch said the ordinance was aimed at preventing the world from seeing what was happening...