#Migrants

Short Thread on Austroasiatic Indian TribesA common myth is thinking Austro-Asiatic tribals in India like the Mundari, Ho or Santali are aboriginal or "first inhabitants" or "aadi-vaasi" of India. They
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Hey @PritiPatel we think the real crisis is our lack of humanity for people fleeing war, climate change and torture. We pulled together a thread for you.. People wouldn’t make
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When recommending a policy of empowering students in their language, I get frantic cries of "what about the student from Punjab living in Chennai, from Bihar in Bangalore etc."I want
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Oh sit down before you hurt yourself. UK is violating human rights right now. Its polices towards refugees and migrants destroy lives. It's passing bills to prevent prosecution for war
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Following @ECHR_CEDH ruling in Hirsi, EU and its Member States developed new #pushback strategies to continue forcing asylum seekers and other migrants outside the European space, without an individual assessment
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It’s been live for 15 years. I should know. I arrived in the UK on the points system https://twitter.com/pritipatel/status/1333828101751648262 A few thoughts on the “points system”: many countries have had
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Under Brexit transition rules, until 1 January 2021 the UK is still a signatory to the Dublin 3 regulation setting out how the movement of potential asylum seekers between states
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there's no migrant crisis...it's just a Europe crisishttps://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/890607088128446464 "The migration crisis could spell the end of the European project. We cannot and must not stand by while this happe
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Called 119 to enquire about interpretation on behalf of a Covid + student who was told to contact them about tracing. Apparently there is no interpretation & the person I
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"We need more women in politics.""We need more young people in politics.""We need more ethnic minorities/migrants in politics."I am in all of these 3 categories & stand for election in
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A (very incomplete) thread of foolish, unethical, un-American, and/or illegal things @realDonaldTrump asked us to do during my tenure...to which the only appropriate response was, “NO.” (1 of 25) Trump
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“How sad” @danwootton that >50,000 ppl have lost their lives to #COVID19 +1,000s more to non-#Covid causes. How sad that so many families & friends are unnecessarily grieving because of
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Anecdotally, I had heard that the pandemic was hitting China’s migrants much harder; this research by @kamwchan and team shows worst fears confirmed.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15387216.2020.1791726#.XxJEdL_FUt1.twitter 2
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Mangrove was such an arresting film. Among the many threads it exposed that don't ordinarily get a hearing or much analysis is the link btw race and class (and migration)A
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Structural racism can be combated only if there is political will, not more data. Ending racism has to begin and end with political will. Data, while helpful in guiding policy
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HOW DOES RACE AND MIGRATION AFFECT IAPT USE? Yesterday we published an examination of inequalities in IAPT use in Southeast London. IAPT is a programme established in 2007-8 aiming to
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