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Need to see a doctor? Want to take the tube to work? Look ‘a bit foreign’? You’d Better Bring Your Passport! 6 Aug 2013 | 02:03 am
One of my New Year's resolutions—and there were only a handful—was to focus on positive things at work. I decided to stop feeding the negative discourse on immigration as it made me depressed and unp...
UK Home Office: Investor in People 11 Jun 2013 | 01:30 am
All those who have to deal with UK immigration authorities, under whatever name they operate now, know how to cope with the Kafkaesque features of the system designed to deter. The asylum support syst...
Coming to a cinema near you – Tina Gharavi’s BAFTA nominated film, I Am Nasrine 10 Jun 2013 | 01:48 pm
Tina was one of our 2013 Migrant and Refugee Women of the Year. She is also a BAFTA nominated filmmaker for her moving film about a young Iranian sister and brother who are forced to seek sanctuary in...
The Speaker’s Corner: Romania’s BFF 10 Jun 2013 | 01:29 pm
In the last few months it has been almost impossible to avoid xenophobic headlines surrounding the lifting of restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian citizens’ (that is, EU citizens’) right to work in ...
Life in the UK: Romanians in London through immersive theatre? 1 May 2013 | 11:11 pm
Cover photo by Dan Perjovski ‘Romanians are vampires sucking up the jobs of the British’ – Paul I have written here before about the Romanian community in London, and in particular about a group of R...
Celebrating Migrant and Refugee Women 9 Mar 2013 | 03:13 am
Five extraordinary women were honoured tonight on International Women’s Day, at The 2013 Migrant and Refugee Woman of the Year Awards Ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London as part of the Women...
2013 Young Women of the Year – Cynthia Masiyiwa 9 Mar 2013 | 02:55 am
Cynthia Masiyiwa came to the UK aged 15 from Zimbabwe to escape political violence. She settled in South London with her sister where she had a tough time as the only black student in her year at scho...
2013 Joint Woman of the Year – Constance Nzeneu 9 Mar 2013 | 02:50 am
Constance Nzeneu fled to the UK in 2005 from the threat of a forced marriage in Cameroon where she had trained as a lawyer. After she applied for protection, she was dispersed to Cardiff whilst her as...
2013 Joint Woman of the Year – Remzije Sherifi 9 Mar 2013 | 02:45 am
Remzije Sherifi trained as an electrical engineer, but radio was her passion and she was one of the first female radio journalists in Kosova. She lost her job in 1992 as a result of the political pers...
2013 Young Woman of the Year Honorary Award – Emina Hadziosmanovi 4 Mar 2013 | 05:40 pm
Emina Hadziosmanovic was a young child when she fled to the UK in 1992 to escape the siege of her home town Sarajevo. She and her family started a new life in Birmingham, and although Emina was settli...
