The new government’s promise to ‘end the detention of children for immigration purposes’, sparked hopes that this country might at last be moving towards an asylum policy based on evidence and not led by politicians’ terror of the tabloids.

By Clare Sambrook

Yemane left behind family, career, and fame in Eritrea to come to Britain where his prominence at the top of his profession as a news journalist and broadcaster, unafraid to witness to the truth, made him a natural target for government repression and violence.

By Andy Kemp

Erna, a 32 year- old Lithuanian, works as an interpreter for art buyers in London

by Nadine Carle

I share a flat in Oval with 4 other people; three Latin Americans and one Portuguese. I temper them with my North East European personality.

Common opinion sees migrants as main cause for reduced lower wages and affordable housing. So, why researches and statistics tell us another story? 

By Juan Camilo

By Juan Camilo
 

If you were to listen at the door of policy-makers’ offices to a conversation about migrant workers, you would most likely hear them talking in terms of rather dry calculations about the contribution made by migrants in filling job shortages and skills gaps, and in providing a flexible workforce.

Why the recent election showed that London is comfortable with immigration

by Juan Camilo

The elections are now over and with a new Liberal Democrat/Conservative coalition government in place we have no clear sense yet of what the major implications of the changeover will be in terms of national immigration policy. But at least we can be reassured that we made it through this general election with London’s voters and politicians having firmly rejected the anti-immigration agenda.

by Maria Teresa Sette

The Bloody Foreigners, the band whose plan is “to change the face of music by adding to it a naughtly, dirty, Balkan flavour” disguise themselves during the day as four harmless geeks: a material engineer, a biochemical scientist, a biomaterial engineer, a sales analyst. But at night time their real identities come out when they sneak away from their offices and university labs and turn into four musicalsubversives, loosein the strts of London. 

"Unpromising and even tragic beginnings are no barrier to success – as fashion designer "

Barbara Hulanicki and businessman Theo Paphitis show. By Maeve Hosea