Category: migration
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Solidarity with Gary AGAINST Human Rights Abuses
The Tory’s Migration Bill is inhumane
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The bombing of the Dover Refugee Centre: An Act of Terrorism….?
The plight of migrants coming to the UK in boats has been highlighted this week with the bombing of an immigration centre by a pensioner who then went on to kill himself. The article above by The Guardian raises the question of why the police aren’t treating this attack as an act of terrorism, as…
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Why do we have a British Citizenship Test?
The UK citizenship was introduced in 2005 in order to address White Working Class concerns over immigration, at least according to one sociologist….
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Deported to Death – What happens to Mexican Migrants after Deportation?
What happens to those many thousands of migrants who make it across the Mexican U.S. border, but are later sent back to their countries of origins? This is the topic which Jeremy Slack, Professor of Geography at the University of Texas, addresses in a recent book: Deported to Death : How Drug Violence is Changing…
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The decline of the nation state and the rise of anti-immigration attitudes
Globlisation has undermined the capacity of governments to govern on behalf of their citizens, because governments have generally preferred to do the bidding of Transnational Corporations. This means most countries now have a reduced welfare state, they are able to do less for their citizens. This results in anti-immigration attitudes and policies
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Analyse two ways in which migration has affected household structures (10)
How to get full marks for a 10 mark ‘item’ question in sociology A-level.
