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One of the most controversial SuperBowl commercials showed a mother and her daughter traveling from Mexico to the US border. In “This Is What A Refugee Looks Like,” another mother and daughter duo flees gang and sexual violence in Central America.
This is the last in this series about Race and COVID-19. Our panel looks at the impact of the pandemic on undocumented migrant workers, whose labour is exploited in Australia. The economy depends upon the work of racialised people, exposing them to high risk through the casualised frontline services that have kept the health system, and other businesses, going during lockdown. At the same time, racialised people are provided inadequate protections against infection, including poor personal protective equipment. Racialised people in general are disproportionately employed in sectors that have the highest rates of Coronavirus, including in hospitals, factories and abattoirs, where they are given little workplace rights, including sick leave. In other cases, migrant workers and international students were left without a safety net when Australia went into lockdown. They were simply told to go home, or else make do without the economic subsidies available to other Australians, even though for many of these migrants, Australia is their home.
Our panellists talk about the ‘punitive immigration policies’ which have impacted undocumented workers during the Coronavirus crisis, and how the theory on ‘curated storytelling’ plays out in race dynamics during the pandemic.
Panellists
Sanmati Verma is an Accredited Specialist in Immigration Law. She has practiced exclusively in the area of migration law since her admission to practice in 2010. She is a migrant rights activist and immigration lawyer with the United Workers Union and the Migrant Workers Centre. In addition to her practice, Sanmati conducts regular community legal education and training seminars in refugee and migration law. She is currently a member of the Law Institute of Victoria’s ‘Legacy Caseload Working Group’ and was previously the chair of the Refugee Law Reform Committee. Sanmati was nominated for the Law Council of Australia’s award for Young Migration Lawyer of the Year in 2014 and 2015.
Sujatha Fernandes is a Professor of Political Economy and Sociology at the University of Sydney. Previously she was a Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Fernandes is the author of Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures (Duke University Press, 2006), Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela (Duke University Press, 2010), Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation (Verso, 2011), and Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling (Oxford University Press, 2017). Her latest book is The Cuban Hustle: Culture, Politics, Everyday Life (Duke University Press, 2020). She is an editorial board member of Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora.SHOW LESS
Alors que la Turquie menace la Grèce d’invasion migratoire…
Alors que les pays d’Europe ferment leurs écoutilles les uns après les autres et que les « réfugiés » recalés se tournent vers la France…
Emmanuel Macron ouvre en grand les vannes de l’immigration sur la France.
En effet, son gouvernement a fait passer en douce un inquiétant projet de loi : il étend le « regroupement familial » pour les réfugiés en le rendant AUTOMATIQUE.
Derrière un discours faussement dur, Macron inflige à la France une immigration massive !
Si vous ne faites rien, vous allez vite voir le paysage changer à toute vitesse : quand ils réussiront à entrer en France, tous les étrangers « considérés comme mineurs » pourront mettre un pied dans la porte, pour faire entrer tout le reste de leur famille.
After learning my flight was detained four hours, I heard the announcement: If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic, Please come to the gate immediately.
Well—one pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there. An older woman in full traditional Palestinian dress, Just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing loudly. Help, said the flight service person. Talk to her. What is her Problem? We told her the flight was going to be four hours late and she Did this.
I put my arm around her and spoke to her haltingly. Shu dow-a, shu-beduck habibti, stani stani schway, min fadlick, Sho bit se-wee?
The minute she heard any words she knew—however poorly used— She stopped crying. She thought our flight had been canceled entirely. She needed to be in El Paso for some major medical treatment the Following day. I said no, no, we’re fine, you’ll get there, just late.
Who is picking you up? Let’s call him and tell him. We called her son and I spoke with him in English. I told him I would stay with his mother until we got on the plane and Would ride next to her—Southwest.
She talked to him. Then we called her other sons just for the fun of It. Then we called my dad and he and she spoke for a while in Arabic and Found out of course they had ten shared friends. Then I thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian Poets I know and let them chat with her. This all took up about two hours.
She was laughing a lot by then. Telling about her life. Answering Questions.
She pulled a sack of homemade mamool cookies—little powdered Sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and nuts—out of her bag— And was offering them to all the women at the gate.
To my amazement, not a single woman declined one. It was like a Sacrament. The traveler from Argentina, the traveler from California, The lovely woman from Laredo—we were all covered with the same Powdered sugar. And smiling. There is no better cookie.
And I noticed my new best friend—by now we were holding hands— Had a potted plant poking out of her bag, some medicinal thing, With green furry leaves. Such an old country traveling tradition. Always Carry a plant. Always stay rooted to somewhere.
And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and thought, This is the world I want to live in. The shared world. Not a single person in this gate—once the crying of confusion stopped —Has seemed apprehensive about any other person.
They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women too. This can still happen anywhere.
Not everything is lost.
[photos by Annie O'Neill - part of the “Out of Many” exhibit that was featured at the 2018 Festival of Friendship in Pittsburgh]
Over the past 25 years, Las Patronas has fed tens of thousands of Central American migrants. Every day volunteers prepare and distribute about 300 food parcels for migrants travelling on freight trains known as La Bestia (The Beast). For many fleeing violence and poverty at home, it’s a life-saving act of kindness. (x)
[img description: a person sitting crossed-legged quickly drawn holding what is a pink vaguely star-shaped object, with arrows pointing at the characters indicating “me”, and at the object “the complex ideas of home, language, migration, food, parenting, family, and selling the house”]
hey so uhhh here’s an important update on what’s apparently happening at the border, especially with the use of the old japanese internment camps
all i can say is i’m sickened by this mess, by the atrocities committed against innocent people. and now there will be no surveillance. no one will be able to see what happens to these people. the UN, the media, and any other human rights organizations cannot get into these facilities, either, in order to stop what’s happening. by the way, coast guard members were apparently aiding in this process as well. so now it’s only a matter of time before it becomes a military movement.
no one gets in. no one gets out.
so when are we going to call this what it is? it’s fascism. it’s genocide. and if we don’t stop it now, it’s going to be disastrous.
contact your senators, your representatives, anyone that’s in office that can get off their lazy ass and do something.
Several thousand migrants are staying in hotels on the island if they can afford it, but more often sleep in tents, abandoned buildings or in the open.
Approximately 2,300 people have died crossing the Mediterranean this year, in what Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EU Migration Commissioner, described as the “worst refugee crisis since the Second World War.”
In this photo, newly arrived Syrian migrants wait in the port of Kos to be registered on the Eleftherios Venizelos liner.
With Trump’s rise to power, thousands of Haitians seeking entry to the US are now left stranded at the northern Mexico border. But black migration is not new to Mexico, as people from the African Diaspora have lived here for centuries. In this short documentary, we meet Haitians stuck at the border as well as Africans in Mexico City to explore black migration and identity in Mexico.
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For any other questions or comments, please email Jacqueline Arellano at [email protected]. For more information, or to make a donation, please visit borderangels.org.
Sanderling on the Beach @ Titchwell Norfolk by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: Sanderlings breed in the Arctic, visiting the UK in the winter and passing through on migration during spring and autumn. The distance they travel varies, but individuals have been known to make 32,000 km annual round-trips to their breeding and wintering grounds.
Gregarious, graceful and grumpy!..The Avocet. by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: With their distinctive black and white pattern, sweeping up-turned bills, and long blue legs, these unusual-looking, but beautiful birds, are fascinating to watch. They provide a spectacular show …
Sanderling Coastal @ Titchwell RSPB Norfolk by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: The sanderling is the sandpiper most often encountered near where the waves crash. To make a safe identification of an adult sanderling outside of spring, note what the sanderling does not have: streaks, spots, or brown markings. Adults are smooth and silvery above and clear white below. Often, a blackish shoulder patch is visible
(Photo: Department of Homeland Security Inspector General via epa-EFE)
Migrant children in detention
For young children, toddlers and infants guilty only of being carried or led into the United States, it’s unconscionable for federal officials to banish them for days or weeks to squalor. Our view.DHS view.
