People move. Human history is stories of migration.
We move for love, for work or study, or because we cannot stay.
But for decades, politicians in the UK and across the Global North have been building systems that make life impossible for those who move, and frequently punish them for even trying. Hostile media feed xenophobic myths and narratives about “us” and “them”.
As the horrors of the climate crisis become realities, these narratives are being ramped up – and worryingly, sometimes picked up by those who we might hope to see as allies.
Migration is not a threat, nor a problem to be solved – it is a reality.
The UK’s ‘hostile environment’ policies make life difficult and dangerous for people who move to the UK. Migrants from the Global South are particularly vulnerable in an immigration system that treats migrants as ‘temporary’ for years, even decades – denied basic rights and left vulnerable to exploit…