Will President Joe Biden’s new border measures be enough to change voters’ minds?
AP reports: "Polls have found immigration and border security to be a top issue this election year and one that has been seized on by former President Donald Trump and his campaign."
Six travailleurs sans-papiers découverts dans un restaurant buffet à volonté à Albi. Corvéables à merci et victimes d'exploitation 7 jours sur 7 pour un salaire de misère, ils sont traités comme des délinquants par la préfecture du Tarn, qui a essayé d'expulser l'une d'eux. Le resto est toujours ouverts. L'employeur a osé rappeler ses anciens employés pour les faire trimer une dernière fois https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/06/03/a-albi-soupcon-de-traite-d-etres-humains-dans-un-restaurant_6237079_3224.html
Meanwhile in social care the exploitation of migrant workers continues, with some experiencing debt bondage & treatment that is looking like 'modern slavery'.
The underfunding & understaffing of social care have come together to produce a toxic environment for workers which the state seems to have little (real) interest in addressing.
The good news is that nursing vacancies have fallen to a new low in England... the not so good news is this reflects the success of foreign recruitment (new nurses from abroad has risen five-fold in the five years to 2023).
While we can now (at least) fill the vacancies, this does not reflect (yet) any surge in training our own nurses, but continues our reliance on poaching staff from other health systems (which is not a great strategy, really).
"The Biden administration is planning to refer some migrants in Latin America for resettlement in Greece and Italy as part of another effort to discourage people in the region from traveling to the U.S.-Mexico border, two people familiar with the government's plans told CBS News."
The network reports: "To blunt a potential spike in migration, President Biden is also preparing to issue an executive action as soon as next week that would bar most asylum claims when illegal crossings soar."
The number of chefs coming into the UK on skilled worker visas has been rising quickly.... the bad news for the hospitality sector is once the new threshold for wage levels for visa applicants kicks in, the average wage of chefs means they will earn too little to get a visa...
Perhaps more interestingly if we compare chefs with software developers, we might suggest that the UK's strategy of more IT training seems to have worked... even if we seem unable to train chefs?
#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.
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.
"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."
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
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...