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#refugees

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Bongolian

Myroslava Tanska-Vikulova & Tim Mak: The 280,000 Ukrainians at risk of U.S. deportation: Like with the stock markets, Ukrainian refugees have been living under massive uncertainty. A decision could come as soon as this month, with the threat of deportations this spring.

#Ukraine #refugees #deportation #tRump #ICE
counteroffensive.news/p/the-28

The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak · The 280,000 Ukrainians at risk of U.S. deportationBy Myroslava Tanska-Vikulova
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ABC Feeds

US and Pakistan threaten Afghan migrants with deportation

Afghans in the US and Pakistan are facing the prospect of being sent back to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan amid crackdowns on those who have sought protection in the countries.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-12/us-

ABC News · US and Pakistan threaten Afghan migrants with deportationBy ABC News
#UnrestConflictandWar#WorldPolitics#Refugees
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US and Pakistan threaten Afghan migrants with deportation

Afghans in the US and Pakistan are facing the prospect of being sent back to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan amid crackdowns on those who have sought protection in the countries.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-12/us-

ABC News · US and Pakistan threaten Afghan migrants with deportationBy ABC News
#UnrestConflictandWar#WorldPolitics#Refugees
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WorldPopProject

Using satellite imagery and advanced spatial modelling we are collaborating with #UNHCR to innovate mapping of displaced populations and unlocking the power of registration data.

By WorldPop data scientist Edith Darin and others.

#refugees #geodata #mapping

medium.com/unhcr-innovation-se

UNHCR Innovation Service · Smarter refugee surveys for a more effective humanitarian responseBy UNHCR Innovation Service
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Amnesty in Salisbury & South Wiltshire

Refugee report

Monthly report on this politically toxic topic

April 2025

The Government’s Border Security Asylum and Immigration Bill has now completed its report stage and will next go to the Lords.  While this is going on, an update on the numbers shows that the number of small boat arrivals this year so far has exceeded 6000, the highest yet.  Meanwhile the backlog of pending asylum cases has increased to 41,000 in December.

The PM has drawn together 40 nations for his Organised Immigration Crime summit last week.  A press release went without much comment, containing the usual statements about agreeing to enhance border security and dismantle the criminal networks.  One item which did emerge was an agreement with Serbia to exchange intelligence about what is now known as the Western Balkans route into Europe.

Following this event, some 136 organisations under the umbrella of Together with Refugees wrote to the Government, unhappy about the language used by the Prime Minister, which they described as “demonising.”  The PM had claimed: “There is little that strikes working people as more unfair than watching illegal migration drive down their wages, their terms and their conditions through illegal work in their community.”

New research from the European University has suggested that attitudes in Europe to irregular migration are more nuanced and varied than previously supposed.  This was from a survey which covered 20,000 people across Austria, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the UK designed to understand their preferences on policies regarding access to healthcare, social welfare and labour protections, as well as the obtainment of regular legal status or “regularisation” for irregular migrants. The results challenge the idea that public attitudes toward irregular migrants’ rights are simply “for” or “against”.  Instead, they found that variations in policy design matter – and when policies include both migration controls and protections for migrants, public support often increases.

Unusually, there is some emphasis this month about campaigning.  Refugee Week (third week in June) is this year under the theme of Community as a Superpower with its customary emphasis on small actions. The group might consider an action (s) which might include:

Following our action against denying asylum seekers the right to work pushing for a change in the law. Refugee Action have a petition to sign here and, for more information, you can Read the coalition’s report here. We could arrange our own petition using the Lift the Ban coalition’s resources.

  • Pressing for Salisbury to be a City of Sanctuary (Winchester and Swindon are)
  • A letter writing workshop for supporting asylum seekers (maybe using the Salisbury Ecohub)
  • A vigil for small boat arrivals (as we did a few years ago)
  • Safe Passage want us to write to our MPs about government  policy and the new bill

(They have a standard email, but this could be enhanced).

Also Refugee Action are offering speakers for local groups – they admit they would mostly be online, but they can make visits.

Finally, a recommended read is Labour’s Immigration Policy by Daniel Trilling (who many will remember gave a talk to us some years ago) in the London Review of Books for March.

Andrew Hemming

The ConversationEuropeans have more flexible views on how to respond to irregular migrants than policymakers think – new researchThere is a public preference for some policies that include a pathway to legal status.
#asylum#HomeOffice#immigration
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kriykat

Mass Migration & the Echoes of Late Rome
consortiumnews.com/2025/04/10/
In its greed for power, domination, resources and wealth, the West, says John Wight, is headed for the same fate as Rome all those centuries ago. By John Wight Special to Consortium News The ancient world can teach us much,…
#Politics #AncientWorld #Commentary #Europe #Immigration #IncomeInequality #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #Barbarians #BorderControl #JohnWight #PresidentDonaldTrump #Refugees #RomanEmpire

Consortium News · Mass Migration & the Echoes of Late RomeIn its greed for power, domination, resources and wealth, the West, says John Wight, is headed for the same fate as Rome all those centuries ago. By John Wight Special to Consortium News The ancient world can teach us much, if we only let it. One of its key lessons is that mass migration is
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KUOW (bot)

U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead said he's seeking a timeline for the Trump administration to "turn back on" the system of refugee admissions for those already approved to travel to the U.S. before President Trump's order suspending the program.
kuow.org/stories/what-will-it-
#KUOW #News #ImmigrationInTheNorthwest #Immigration #Refugees #LawAndCourts #TrumpAndTheNorthwest #LawAndCourts

www.kuow.org · What will it take to restart refugee admissions to the US? Seattle judge presses DOJ for detailsU.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead said he's seeking a timeline for the Trump administration to "turn back on" the system of refugee admissions for those already approved to travel to the U.S. before President Trump's order suspending the program.
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Roberto von Archimboldi

I think that there is a reason that the world's media ignores Refugees in Libya. It is the same reason most of you do too. It is encapsulated in this paragraph of theirs:

'Even when evidence is abundant, when video shows torture in real time, when you know the captors’ phone numbers, when you have the full names of the victims, the global system refuses to act. Why? Because the victims are African. Because the victims are Black. Because the victims are disposable.'

refugeesinlibya.org/post/they-

#Libya, #NoBorders, #Refugees, #FreeMovement, #Migration, #BlackLivesMatter

Refugees in Libya · THEY BEAT HIM DAILY, NO ONE HAS MOVED, HIS LIFE COST $10,000 IN CASH: Tesfay Hagos AlemayehuThere are men whose names will never touch headlines not because they are unworthy, but because the world has chosen a hierarchy of whose pain is worth hearing, whose screams can be dismissed, whose body may be bartered. Tesfay Hagos Alemayehu is such a man. He was born on the 15th of March, 1994, in Hagere Selam, a town in the northern highlands of Ethiopia, Tesfay grew up as one of many→a son of soil, of war, of withered promises. But today, he is something else: a man stripped of dignity and
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