Posts tagged immigration
In the last week 6,400 immigrants were arrested and detained in Greece.
Yesterday hundreds of Roma families are rounded up and evicted in France.
It’s a bad time to be an outsider in Europe.
*correction from a migrant in Europe: its a bad time to be a poor outsider in Europe… at least in Britain there’s a shiny loophole for those with deep pockets. …ah class war.
in case it isn’t clear, i’m using humour to make my point.
just an fyi, Economist, just because a city has a large international population, doesn’t mean they appreciate it. …London is the motivational heart of Britain’s sweeping immigration reform.
There’s nothing brilliant about gentrification, discrimination in employment, or the massive wage/wealth gap that still cripples London Britain, astounding the entire world on how a country SO BROKE can still function.
Tomorrow’s cover today: in praise of the world’s most international city. If only the rest of Britain properly appreciated it.
Dear World,
No.Just stop.It’s enough.
You are being an asshole for the pure enjoyment of being an asshole. I’ve got enough on my plate with this crippling poverty and pressure to finish my PhD. We’re STUDENTS for fuck’s sake.
Best,
L.
*sorry for the potty mouth.
UKBA has announced changes to the immigration rules for over-stayers that come into effect from 1st October 2012. Previously if you over-stayed in the UK you were permitted to make a new extension application in the UK, even though your immigration permission had expired. However, under the new immigration rules, if your immigration permission has expired more than 28 days ago, if you apply for an extension from the UK, your application will be refused. This means that if you have over-stayed in the UK for more than 28 days you need to go home to make a new application. If you have over-stayed in the UK by more than 90 days you cannot make a new application from the UK or from overseas which means you would be subject to a 12 month ban from returning to the UK.
If you make an extension application in the UK while your immigration permission is still valid and your application is rejected you will be classed as an over-stayer from the date that you are notified that your application has been rejected, not from the date that your immigration permission expired. The date you are considered to have been notified is the second day after the date on the letter from UKBA.
‘more open borders, not less’
oooooo multimedia format 2 min lecture (drool)
Top three myths about Immigration debunked
This is Theresa May. Learn her face; learn her name. She is heading this government’s ‘war’ on UK migration; well, let’s be fair - England’s war on migration.
On Sunday, May confirmed that Britons will not be allowed to bring in non-EU spouses who earn less than £18,500/year. That’s a link about why its ‘nasty’. This is a piece by UK-born (Pakistani by culture) comedian Shazia Mirza about why May’s plan won’t make a difference in the government’s pre-existing ‘brokeness’. And this is an piece on why and how immigration in the UK has become SO political.
The ‘thing’ is twofold:
1) Many people discount the experience of being an immigrant in the UK today. Try living under this thumb. I’ve always been at the stick end of public policy (because I’m female), but this is truly the -excuse me- shit end. Living every day knowing the date on my visa is no longer valid, and seeing news like this EVERY MONTH. Well, I know it will sound like a ‘middle class problem’ because obviously I can still afford to undertake my PhD here (see current debt total). However, its really a tough world to exist in when whether I open my mouth or show my face, I will be discriminated against. Tough world to write a PhD thesis in Politics, at least. And I’ve got it better than most…
2) THIS IS CLASS WAR! Most people in Britain KNOW that non-EU migration is not the problem, but what reason do most Britons have to stick out there neck and say, “This is wrong.” If you’re not from a migrant family, you’re not really affected. Considering the relative costs of political participation … well, there’s not much hope for us migrants, is there?
(i will work today)
Highly recommend this (albeit limited) quiz from the Guardian called ‘Where should you emigrate?’ The husband and I came out with Argentina, which is good because it is one of our choices - so the quiz must be a little spot-on.
As Europe’s crisis deepens, thousands are moving abroad in search of better economic conditions and a better life. Answer these seven simple questions, and our migratometer will tell you where you should think about relocating
GPOY - me at (almost indefinitely) the happiest moment of my life: when my husband was able to obtain a visa and join me in Manchester. ‘Who could ask for anything more?’
After over a year of being apart, my husband returns to Britain (legally) tomorrow evening. I’ve been trying to control my squees with countless dinners and dates with the colleagues (hence no tumbling), but I SIMPLY CANNOT CONTAIN MYSELF ANY LONGER!!!!
The way ‘we’ have conceptualised (im)migration is entirely inaccurate and unjust/unequal/unfair. I’m here to say, if you are a non-EU citizen and you want to (im)migrate to an EU nation, you must have money, especially if you want to stay for more than 5 years (Theresa May). My husband and I exhausted the books on visa options that would grant us a life with an annual income over £11,000 (my student aid), but Britain simply will not have it. After being apart for over a year, succumbing to exhaustion and poor mental and physical health, we caved and lobbied my family for £8,000 a year until January 2015. £19,000 a year teeters on the edge of the poverty line, but at a certain point in life you realise it IS better to be poor and miserable together than poor and miserable apart.
So this is me, first hand - a Politics PhD (in progo) w a CV that warrants merited funding (w/out actually receiving any because of my fee status as an overseas student) - saying if you want to expatriate from the United States and move to Europe (short OR long-term), you better come from money. …and that there is something inherently flawed about our system of (im)migration.
nb: don’t expect ANY posts from me next week. i won’t make you wonder where I’ll be, but it won’t be near tumblr.
New Batch Scheme from UKBA being released 6 April.
Expected:
(Source: thesubversivesound)
Say your not bigoted enough Fox [News] will help you with your bigotry…
… It was just some stories about, uh …
Immigrants, they’re very worried about the immigrants;
And Gays, they’re very worried about gays,
and paedophiles.
I think that immigrants - don’t worry too much about immigrants because that’s just a person that used to be somewhere else. That’s just a person that’s moved from one place to another place. That’s not that frightening…
“OH, HAVE YOU ALWAYS BEEN THERE?!”
“No, no I used to be there.”
Where will you go next?!
You’re not static; you’re an unstable object moving around on a rock in infinite space. Where will you go next?
How will we tax it correctly?
Russell Brand on Fox News and The Daily Mail’s shared fear of immigrants, gays and paedophiles.
Amnesty International Secret Policeman’s Ball 2012.
Link will only work in Britain.
My husband just submitted his visa application for a spouse of a Tier 4 student.
In today’s global world, citizenship is still entirely nationalistic. I’ve said numerous times how ridiculous I believe it is that capital is allowed to flow freely between states, but labour is not.
My husband is a highly skilled migrant with 8 years of experience in his field. He’s been a qualified candidate for more than a few applied positions in Britain. Last week a job he was qualified and nominated for was canceled after the EU preferential hiring scheme review was conducted. He is a skilled labourer; but because he is not an EU labourer, his candidacy is often dismissed because of his (non-EU) nationality.
The spouse of a Tier 4 student is prohibited from working or volunteering. As a Tier 4 student I am restricted to work/volunteer 20 hours a week, and the EU preferential hiring scheme check is conducted, except in University teaching. …and anyone in academia these days know how hard teaching contracts are to win for more than 6 months.
In spite of all this, if his application is successful, we will be together again. My husband and I have been married almost 2 years, and in one week, we will have lived apart for a year. Its impossible to convey in words how difficult it is to continue undertaking a PhD in politics, seeing the world today, while living without your newly-wed spouse, especially when you’re married to my spouse *eyebrow lift*.
This video is kind of how I imagine it will go if his application is successful, and we meet at Manchester airport in, what we hope will be only, a few months.
To the UKBA: please.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac Asimov (via fromthenovel)
yup. husband and i were just talking about this; our knowledge prohibits us from really ‘going back happily’ ever again, but at the same time, we are sooooooo discriminated against in Europe. …guess the husband will just have to learn spanish. …and i’ll just have to learn technical/academic spanish.
(Source: karterpike)
no human being is illegal.
The Society of Professional Journalists voted this week to support the recommendation that newsrooms abandon the terms “illegal immigrant” and “illegal alien.”
“Drop the I-word,” a campaign headed by ColorLines goes beyond the newsroom, and focuses on eradicating “the dehumanizing slur “illegals” from everyday use and public discourse.” The campaign is led by immigrants and diverse communities and recognizes the inherent human dignity in every individual.
For updates, news and calls to action from the Drop the I-Word Campaign, click here.
Interesting … We’ve gotten responses from both directions about using these phrases in the past. What do you all think?
Alabama-born man fell in love in Islamabad during excursion to travel where Americans don’t travel, immigrated, converted, and settled in Pakistan only to be abducted on likely-wrongful accusations of espionage.
A beautiful and sad story about the love of a man and a woman, their family, warring nations, and one wife’s fight to free her husband, who changed his whole life to be with her.
… know what I mean?
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