Spain promises amnesty to immigrants
Spain has said that it will not longer turn back boats carrying would be immigrants from Africa and will offer work permits to immigrants who have a contract. Guardian UK “We are sorting out these...
View ArticleEU Immigration Camps
France and Spain reject German/Italian proposal to set up a European Union Transit camp in North Africa for refugees from Africa, Middle East and Asia ie everyone who is not white. The idea was...
View ArticleCrossing borders
On the 7th February Spain launched its three month amnesty to some of the 800,000 illegal immigrants living in the country. The amnesty offered by Spain’s new socialist government the PSOE ends...
View ArticleImmigrants abandonded in the Sahara
More than 500 African immigrants are found abandoned in the Sahara after being expelled from Spanish territory in North Africa. Thousands of Africans pass through Morocco in the hope of crossing to...
View ArticleThe Asylum “Game”
The Asylum Game was originally developed for Swedish national TV. The object of the Norwegian version of the game is to try to replicate the dangers, the perils the reality faced by migrants trying to...
View ArticleMigration management
Nigeria! What’s New left this link to a photo essay on a comment to the “Gold Diggers of the Sahara” poem. I wrote “this is a lament – a dedication to those men and women who spend their lives toiling...
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World walls
Iran is the latest country to sign up to “wall building” borders — in this case along the Iranian Pakistan border in the Baluchistan region. Iran’s justification for the wall is a familiar one. To...
View ArticleThe Right to Remain
One of the questions I have been asked many times since leaving South Africa is “are they going to be ready for the World Cup”. My standard refrain is they shouldn’t be hosting the world cup in the...
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The road to happiness is long – could be thousands of miles, if you persevere...
Perils of lies will await you on the roadside, watch your front and back, turn sideways and round in a circle. Look to the sky, this is the home of ancestors with their eyes of ten thousand splendid...
View Article“illegality is not an identity; it is a status that can be mended”
This article “The Great Immigration Panic” is set in the US but in many ways speaks to the whole issue of immigration across the world including Europe and South Africa……….. Immigrants in detention...
View Article“Returns Directive” immigration policy with the lowest common denominator
On June 17th & 18th the EU will vote on the proposed anti-immigration legislation”Returns Directive” which will enable member states to: Detain and deport migrants including vulnerable people,...
View ArticleMigration management center in Mali
Just over two years ago the Spanish government desperate to stop migrant workers from crossing into Spain from the Sahara, came to an agreement with the Senegalese government to deploy their coast...
View ArticleAnti immigration in UK grows – throw them to the sharks
Yesterday the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, suggested boats carrying illegal immigrants between North Africa and Europe should be sunk. Pressed on what should happen to those on board, he said: “Throw them...
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Racing from Africa to Europe
Sierra Leone / British journalist, Sorious Samura becomes an ‘illegal’ [his words] immigrant traveling from Morocco to Europe with a group of African migrants. Three of the men decide to make the...
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Fortress Europe
In the past two weeks over 200 maybe more, men women and children, the majority from the Africas, have died on the Mediterranean Sea crossing from Africa to Europe. – The latest deaths add to the...
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