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Who do we think we are?S3 E11 Labour’s new immigration plan is anything but Brexit Michaela and Nando get together to discuss the UK’s Labour Government 2025 promise to restore control over immigration by reducing net migration. The resonance with Brexit rhetoric couldn’t be clearer in the language and narrative surrounding this. Yet, Brexit remains the elephant in the room. They reflect on several key elements of the paper: health and social care visas, shifts in qualification levels and income requirements, student visas and e-visas. As their conversation highlights, the new immigration plan embeds further the criminalisation of certain migrants—and seeks new ways to do so—while offering no reflection on the absence...2025-05-2334 min
ODI | Think ChangeRiots, race and misinformation – has alarmist rhetoric on migration gone too far?The fatal stabbing of three young girls in Southport by 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana back in July ignited riots which have swept across the UK and made global headlines.What followed from the tragedy was a racist, Islamophobic and anti-migrant campaign fuelled by misinformation and disinformation, which spilled into the streets with targeted attacks on mosques and ethnic minorities.This senseless violence again cast a spotlight on systemic issues of racism and inequality, and highlighted the potentially deadly consequences of our collective failure to tackle false information online, as well as the demonisation of migrants.2024-09-1735 min
Who do we think we are?S3 E9 (Not so) safe routes What are the UK Government’s ‘safe and legal routes’? How do these relate to ‘stop the boats’, the Rwanda Plan, and the curtailment of asylum as laid out in the 1951 Refugee Convention? What can we learn from listening to the Hong Kongers and Ukrainians beneficiaries of these humanitarian visas? And what if these routes are not so safe after all? In this episode we explore the UK’s safe and legal (humanitarian routes). Elena Zambelli explains what ‘asylum’ is, looking its history, scope and challenges to these international protections since 2015 ‘refugee crisis.’ Fizza Qureshi, CEO of the Migrants’ Rights N...2024-02-1554 minWho do we think we are?S3 E9 (Not so) safe routes What are the UK Government’s ‘safe and legal routes’? How do these relate to ‘stop the boats’, the Rwanda Plan, and the curtailment of asylum as laid out in the 1951 Refugee Convention? What can we learn from listening to the Hong Kongers and Ukrainians beneficiaries of these humanitarian visas? And what if these routes are not so safe after all? In this episode we explore the UK’s safe and legal (humanitarian routes). Elena Zambelli explains what ‘asylum’ is, looking its history, scope and challenges to these international protections since 2015 ‘refugee crisis.’ Fizza Qureshi, CEO of the Migrants’ Rights N...2024-02-1554 min
The Housing Diversity Network PodcastRehousing Refugees and Migrants with Fizza QureshiIn this episode, we meet up with Fizza Qureshi to discuss rehousing refugee and migrants especially with everything happening in Ukraine and with the news that came out on the day of this recording about the governments 'Rwanda asylum seeker plan'.2022-08-2322 min
Mooroo PodcastNabeel Qureshi & Fizza Ali MeerzaNabeel Qureshi and Fizza Ali Meerza are Pakistani Film-makers with an array of successful movies starting from Na Maloom Afraad (2014) to Actor in Law (2016) Load Wedding (2018) their new Film Quaid-e-Azam zindabad is coming this eid and the Trailer can be seen here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8IQfwadVGw2022-06-1650 min
Cremé Project PodcastFizza Qureshi the CEO of the Migrants’ Rights Network, discusses the intertwining of race and immigration policyQureshi is the CEO of the Migrants’ Rights Network – a charity that works alongside migrants in their fight for rights and justice.
In this interview, as well as the work of MRN we discuss attempts to separate race from migration, Priti Patel and her Rwanda Plan and how the Ukrainian refugee crisis has exposed the double standards of the UK immigration policy.2022-05-3154 min
Who do we think we are?What does the Nationality and Borders Act mean for British citizenship?What is the UK’s Nationality and Borders Act? How does it relate to previous acts concerned with nationality and immigration legislation? What is the back story to some of the central changes that this act introduces? We cover all of this and more in this bumper episode to mark the start of Series 2 of Who do we think we are? Presenter Michaela Benson introduces the Nationality and Borders Act and how this sits in a longer history of Acts which considers changes to nationality and immigration legislation alongside one another. She also joins podcast researcher George Ka...2022-05-2750 minWho do we think we are?What does the Nationality and Borders Act mean for British citizenship?What is the UK’s Nationality and Borders Act? How does it relate to previous acts concerned with nationality and immigration legislation? What is the back story to some of the central changes that this act introduces? We cover all of this and more in this bumper episode to mark the start of Series 2 of Who do we think we are? Presenter Michaela Benson introduces the Nationality and Borders Act and how this sits in a longer history of Acts which considers changes to nationality and immigration legislation alongside one another. She also joins podcast researcher George Ka...2022-05-2750 min