How should the media portray poverty?
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 by Will Horwitz Posted in Inequality, Welfare reform, attitudes, livelihoods, migrants, uk poverty | No Comments »Will Horwitz works on communications for East London Charity Community Links. He is also an alumnus of Oxfam's UK Poverty Programme. (Community Links are spending this week debating how the media portrays poverty). A couple of years ago a headline in ...
Who Cares?
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 by Krisnah Poinasamy Posted in asylum Seekers, equality, gender, labourrights, migrants, refugees, uk poverty | No Comments »The UK has an ageing population – with the number of people over 80 set to double to eight per cent of the population by 2030. Unable to meet the ever-increasing demand for care workers through the British workforce, the ...
Migration is Good for Britain – What the Papers Don’t Say
Friday, July 24th, 2009 by Joshua Fenton-Glynn Posted in migrants | 1 Comment »One of the perks of my job is that I have to read all the newspapers every morning and summarise the news priorities and what's going on for my colleagues. And one of the things I have noticed is that, when ...
Reform is needed to stop the exploitation of migrant workers
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 by Krisnah Poinasamy Posted in migrants | No Comments »I enjoyed listening to the report on Radio 4 about the impact that the recession is having on Polish migrants. Interestingly, they found that contrary to earlier speculation, many Polish migrants are remaining in the UK - there is ...
International Roma Day
Thursday, April 9th, 2009 by Jason Bergen Posted in migrants | No Comments »As well as being the day Oxfam introduced FRED to the world, yesterday was also International Roma Day. Oxfam's programme in the UK has a long history of working with migrants, who are some of the poorest people in the country. ...
Award winning partnership with Roma community in Glasgow
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 by Jim Boyle Posted in migrants | No Comments »When a few thousand Roma started settling in Glasgow five years ago, there were bound to be challenges. The Roma were looking for a better life in the UK due to the persecution and poverty they faced in eastern ...
