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Tag: Refugee

  • Three New Kinds of Refugees in a World of Migrants

    Rashid Diab (Sudan), Out of Focus, 2015. One summer evening, the unrelenting sun over Niger refused to dip below the horizon. I sought out some shade with three anxious men in Touba au paradis, a small quiet restaurant in Agadez. These three Nigerians had tried to make the crossing at Assamaka, to our north, into […]

  • Terminating Partnerships: The UK Ends the Rwanda Solution

    The dishonour board is long.  Advisors from Australia, account chasing electoral strategists, former Australian cabinet ministers happy to draw earnings in British pounds.  British Conservative politicians keen to mimic their cruel advice, notably on such acid topics as immigration and the fear of porous borders. Ghastly terminology used in Australian elections rhetorically repurposed for the […]

  • When Safety is a Fiction: Passing the UK’s Rwanda Bill

    What a stinking story of inhumanity.  A country intent on sending asylum seekers to one whose residents have actually applied for asylum and sanctuary in other states.  But the UK-Rwanda deal, having stalled and stuttered before various courts and found wanting for reasons of human rights, has become law with the passage of the Safety […]

  • The Only Right That Palestinians Have Not Been Denied Is the Right to Dream

    The Only Right That Palestinians Have Not Been Denied Is the Right to Dream

    Malak Mattar (Palestine), Gaza, 2024. On 26 January, the judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that it is ‘plausible’ that Israel is committing a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The ICJ called upon Israel to ‘take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts’ that violate the UN […]

  • Banished from Pakistan: Islamabad Moves on Afghan Refugees

    Across the globe, refugees, always treated as the pox of public policy, continue to feature in news reports describing anguish, despair and persistent persecution.  If they are not facing barbed wire barriers in Europe, they are being conveyed, where possible, to third countries to be processed in lengthy fashion.  Policy makers fiddle and cook the […]

  • Cruel Prerogatives: Braverman on Refugees at the AEI

    Suella Braverman has made beastliness a trait in British politics. The UK Home Secretary, fed on the mush and mash of anti-refugee sentiment, has been frantically trying to find her spot in the darkness of inhumanity. Audaciously, and with grinding ignorance, she persists in her rather grisly attempts to kill the central assumptions of international […]

  • The Right to Seek Safety

    The Right to Seek Safety

    Through a WhatsApp message from Portugal, my friend Eunice Neves asked to share a moment with me. She was with an Afghan couple, Frishta and Mohammad, and their baby son, Arsalan. The young family has resettled in Mértola, a small city in southern Portugal. They looked forward to celebrating World Refugee Day as part of […]

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