Immigration

Mythbuster: Immigration – the real story December 2012
Isabelle Koksal counters the right wing myths with some facts and figures

Common cause in labour December 2012
In France, Italy and elsewhere, migrants are organising, not just against racism but for their rights as workers. Vittorio Longhi reports

Essay: Europe’s hard borders December 2012
Matthew Carr investigates the brutal border regimes of our ‘gated continent’ and suggests the possibility of a different politics of solidarity

The people behind the prejudice December 2012
As part of Red Pepper's special issue on migration, Guy Taylor tells some stories of migrants' real lives

Jeremy Hardy thinks… about immigration October 2010
I’ve seen those criminals, bent double over the fields of Kent, up to no good

Get along, move along, shift… September 2010
The Roma are experiencing a fresh wave of repression across Europe. Leigh Phillips reports

Border stories October 2009
Frances Webber investigates the tabloid fantasies and desperate realities surrounding migrants in Calais

Asylum watch: Now what? March 2009
Labour says it is planning to 'simplify' immigration legislation. Frances Webber argues that its real agenda is to subvert human rights and give more power to the state

Unhealthy obsessions December 2008
Phil Woolas should stop worrying about poor people's fertility and tackle the real 'extremely thorny' question - rich people's wealth, says Bob Hughes

Workers of the world – welcome! November 2007
The British economy is reliant on migrant labour and has benefited greatly from the arrival of migrant workers from the new EU member states, argues Nigel Harris. An internationalist left should embrace the mobility of this new world working class, with its potential to redress global inequalities and end the scourge of xenophobia and war