With France marking six months of ‘yellow vest’ rallies and civil unrest, a new movement is making itself heard. The Gilets Noirs, the largest collective of undocumented migrants in France, have been conducting a series of high profile actions, most notbaly the recent protests at Charles De Gaulle airport calling for an end to deportation flights. In this article, Luke Butterly reports on the movement.
Aria Alamalhodaei interviews Anna Feigenbaum about airborne politics, the use of tear gas as border control, and what resistance to nonlethal weapons looks like.
In this compact, printable history, Felice Batlan traces the development of US immigration restrictions from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century.
At the heart of Glasgow's unfolding humanitarian crisis for asylum seekers is a system that rewards profit at the cost of humanity, argues Rosa Dee.
If the abolition of ICE is to be more than symbolic, it must include the abolition of local police departments.
Comparisons between Trump's border regime and the Nazi genocide often obscure more than they reveal about white supremacy, past and present.
Óscar Martínez considers why Central American migrants will not stop seeking a way into the trap of the United States.
The refugees, migrants, sans-papiers, and people in solidarity occupying Paris-8 University to demand documents and housing for all denounce the manipulations of the French state.
In addition to the newfound sympathy for the Windrush generation, we should remember that ‘illegal immigrants’ are our kin, especially if we are to challenge the racism at the heart of the ‘hostile environment’.
U.S. immigration policy during the Trump presidency and in the years beyond could be outrageous and appalling, but it’s not new.
In contrast to the refugees Australia imprisons offshore, the white South African farmers that the Australian government want to fast-track for humanitarian or other visa programmes are some of the most privileged people on the planet.
While Erdoğan's tyranny is tolerated by "the West," "democracy" is no longer even an empty slogan where poor nations of the periphery are concerned.