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1 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Denying migrants access to benefits has caused poverty & precarity for years. In this pandemic it has caused much greater risk of homelessness, exploitation & spread of disease.

Please sign & share @JCWI_UK petition for NRPF to be scrapped in #Budget2021 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/5755…
Despite paying eye-wateringly high fees, contributing huge amounts to the economy & being a particularly popular migrant group, foreign students are subject to No Recourse to Public Funds.

Many who usually work to get by are destitute in this pandemic.

newhamrecorder.co.uk/news/newham-fo…
Strict restrictions on how many hours migrant students are allowed to work while pursuing their studies limit the types of jobs they can do. Very often they take up part time work in hospitality or as teaching assistants. Just the kind of job that has disappeared in these times.
Our petition calls on Rishi Sunak to take into account the situations of migrants like these students, who are unable to rely on the security net that is supposed to help us all through times of crisis.

He must use his budget this week to suspend NRPF petition.parliament.uk/petitions/5755…

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Zoe Gardner Profile picture
2 Mar
Today I'm bringing out new research on migrant experiences during the pandemic, focusing on the impact of having No Recourse to Public Funds, which applies to all migrants by default until they get indefinite leave to remain, which takes 5 or 10 years depending on their visa...
If you have No Recourse to Public Funds, you cannot access most benefits. This forces migrants into poverty, and in the pandemic has made it harder for them to keep themselves and our communities safe.

This has impacted migrants at work & in their homes, it affects everything.
Migrants with NRPF cant get housing benefit.
Among those surveyed in my research, they were 52% more likely than migrants who were allowed to claim benefits to say they would not be able self isolate safely in their home if they, or a member of their household needed to.
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24 Feb
OK. Which of you massive geeks is looking forward to Priti Patel giving evidence to the HASC this morning? 😑😑😑
LOL at the first question put to the Home Secretary about her commitment to creating a "fairer and more compassionate" Home Office.

Patel says there has been a "number of changes" to put people first...
She says there has been training to improve quality of HO communications.
That's it. That's literally the only concrete thing she mentions in terms of the Home Office's response to the Windrush Lessons Learned Review so far.
Other than that it's ALL just incoherent babble with a few key words sprinkled through seemingly at random.
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22 Dec 20
On the face of it, this looks good, govt extending the Seasonal Agricultural Workers' visa scheme from 10,000 to 30,000 to address lack of labour for farming industry after the end of Free Movement.
Here's grinchy Zoe to explain why it's bad. Sorry... thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/politi…
Until now, most seasonal agricultural work was taken on by migrants benefitting from the right to Freedom of Movement in the EU. This meant they could come, pick on this farm, move to that farm with the changing harvest, switch into other work, basically just live.
With the end of Free Mov the Home Office insists less & less convincingly that all lower-paid work our industries need can be covered by the domestic work force.

The "pick for Britain" drive to get British workers into these jobs was a car wreck, filling just 15% of vacancies.
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21 Dec 20
Finally using my free time to read properly the brilliant book I had only previously skimmed, by @aesager, called Against Borders.

Unsurprisingly, it's a book that argues against border controls. & does so very convincingly. But my favourite quote so far deals with the doubters-
"The claim that something is unrealistic often evokes an emotional response, rather than encouraging a clearheaded investigation into reality.

"It biases us in favour of dominant perceptions of the status quo...
"The infeasibility of open borders is more frequently assumed than argued

"And the appeal to 'realism' is too often a rhetorical trick to dismiss, rather than rebut, opponents."
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20 Dec 20
Just fuck Rishi Sunak, honestly, and fuck everyone who pretended to think he was fit, too.
I know, I KNOW some people have been able to scrape together some savings during this, but a lot of us really, really haven't. A lot of us lost jobs or got a pay cut that has lasted nearly a year. A lot of us have depended on Statutory Sick Pay which is TOO LOW. Just fuck off.
If the only economic impact on your household this year was saving a bit on your coffees and your commute, I really suggest shutting your trap about it forever.
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9 Dec 20
Right, here is my BIG THOUGHT for today: Yes, radical, transformative change in our immigration system is 100% achievable and we can convince the country of it, too. Sorry for the long thread.

Here is why:
People have views on immigration. People, who in most cases know nothing about the facts of it whatsoever.

Opinion does not fluctuate with facts or policies. Not with the number of immigrants, nor with the strictness of the system they face. These are almost entirely unrelated.
In surveys measuring people's perceptions, people hugely overestimate the number of immigrants in the UK. They also hugely overestimate what percentage of immigrants are made up of any group they're asked about.
So if you're talking about asylum seekers...
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