In the Metro Newspaper, the leader of UKIP Nigel Farage has expressed his opinion on migrants with HIV entering the country. His opinion has caused pandemonium and anger within the British public. Believing that migrants with HIV do not have anything to offer in the UK, Farage stated they could not provide “quality” employment or contribute to society. I regard Mr. Farage’s opinions and views as biased and absurd. His opinion reveals his ignorant, bigoted nature. Immigrants from around the world have come to the UK and enriched our society by working successful jobs, which benefit the UK enormously. These include, doctors, engineers and teachers. Nigel Farage argues that the UK should only allow people to migrate who offer a “skill” and “who do not have HIV”. The UK has a history of being known as a gracious mother country of the colonies and the world, allowing people to live peaceful lives, contribute to society and live in freedom. This reputation has lived on in modern times. However, according to Nigel Farage’s speeches and his current argument to “ban” migrants with HIV, Nigel Farage stands against the UK’s maternal philosophy. How can he then claim to be all for Britain when he does not uphold …show more content…
This shows Nigel Farage’s condescending attitude towards sufferers of HIV, categorizing them as criminals, when actually they have benefited the UK. Using the term “ban” has a very negative connotation- we ban things that are useless, that are detrimental, that are dangerous. Nigel Farage implies that HIV migrants are a severe threat to Britain and need to be banned. The chief executive of the HIV charity has voiced Mr. Farage’s claims as “ridiculous”, arguing that Nigel Farage is categorizing, as well as stereotyping HIV migrants as criminals. She attacks Nigel Farage as being “ignorant” and “bracketing” them with murderers. The reader may feel sympathetic for HIV migrants and strongly oppose Nigel Farage’s
McKeown’s book significantly traces the enforcement of the bio-power on the national border control system against the background of the expansion of capitalist global order, and thus further debunks that the seemingly neutral face of modern international migration is a discursive and institutional mask for coloniality. His arguments keep reminding me of previous insights on our modern world by thinkers like Foucault, Walter Mignolo, and Lisa Lowe, who all stay vigilant to the progressive and emancipatory vision from the enlightenment, or, the western modernity, by revealing its dialectic relevance to its opposite, the suppression and alienation of humanity from disciplinary regimentation of social life to colonial bloodshed and enslavement.
I ask you now to imagine such a life. It is impossible for us to imagine having to flee our homes and family simply because our beliefs or lifestyle are not deemed suitable. Furthermore, paying thousands of dollars to travel across treacherous oceans in shabby boats. The fact that asylum seekers are prepared to remain locked up in detention centres and be deprived of their freedom must surely tell us of the horrific circumstances from which they have fled. ******** PUT IN CLOSING PARAGRAPH.
The liberal immigration policies of Great Britain resulted in a population increase of English settlers in Virginia. In the early 1600s, the English colonies grew from approximately one-thousand people located in just Jamestown to a large 1.5 million by the mid 1700s, covering territory all throughout America. By now English colonies were not only populated by Britain's artisans, tradesmen, and middle-class farmers, but also by many merchants and Conquistadors of the French and Spanish immigrants. However, the unwillingness to assimilate, by the French and Spanish colonies, led to a dominating population in the English colonies. The overpowering amount of British settlement in America resulted with the English way of life becoming a common
Though immigration is not a new phenomenon in the world’s history, it has been notice that now days immigration has increased more than ever. This is mainly caused because of better ways of communication and transportation, which it makes it possible to people to move and enter other countries. However there are many types of immigrations such as economical, retirement immigrants or even ‘natural disasters’ immigrants. People sometimes seek a new life to save themselves from poverty and misery, thus they decide to enjoy the benefits of another country. Still there are other immigrants who are forced to leave their countries because of wars or even natural disasters, such as the tsunami in Japan 2011. Some philosophers consider closed borders to restrict people freedom of movement and that global justice is been violated. On the other hand Miller and other philosophers argued that immigration causes more disadvantages than advantages into the country they enter. Also they agree that states have a moral right to limit immigrations in order to prevent any changes in their culture, as immigration affects several things, even if this means that they will violate human rights. Another concern for the states is the welfare state where sometimes it may be limited and countries cannot afford any immigrants. However, is it right to oppose people rights of freedom, or is it correct for states to limit immigration?
In 2011 it was recorded that the United Kingdom (UK) was home to 7.5 million immigrants, making up an eighth of the population (Doughty). Those numbers however only make up the recognized legal immigrants. Illegal immigrants make up a unrecognized portion of the population and in 2005 it was estimated that the UK hosted between 310,000 and 570,000 undocumented residents (Casiani). Frear’s’ provides a look into the lives of these people who are not normally represented in film, policy or at all. The characters in this film make up a variety of cultures, backgrounds and citizen status. It is the main characters, Okwe and Senay, which provide valuable insight into the systematic mistreatment of migrant workers. Globalization has created issues for workers and their rights and policy cannot always protect business from finding cheaper (and perhaps illegal) labour. Stories from the undocumented and invisible illegal workers can be found and they all sing a similar tune of systematic abuse. The paper WE MAKE THE ROAD BY WALKING:*IMMIGRANT WORKERS, THE WORKPLACE PROJECT, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL CHANGE by Jennifer Gordon tells the story of an illegal worker who, after gaining citizenship, asks to be put in the books and after hearing this request the employer replies "there's the door, if you don't like it, I know a lot of people who would be interested in your job." It is this thought that is echoed through the stories of immigrant workers. Undocumented workers are not typically unionized, they do not possess job security, health benefits and work long hours for low pay. Immigrant workers however remain in these conditions out of desperation for work, threats and fear of deportation (Wishnie). Labour laws, which are already lax and difficult to enforce (some many take up to five years to investigate), (Gordon) cannot always protect workers whose employees whose employers “are rarely registered; [many never] comply
Bhabha, J., & Young, W. (1998) Through A Child's Eyes: Protecting the Most Vulnerable Asylum Seekers. Interpreter Releases 75 (21), pp. 757-791.
Many people in the UK coupled with media stories, tend to portray asylum seekers as bogus individuals who are here purely for economic gains (Teater 2014). This has led organisations such as Refugee councils and Refugee Action
Can it be that the ongoing debate over the amount of immigrants and asylum-seekers allowed to inhabit Britain annually has been an easy attraction for public criticism and has consequently spurred racism? This kind of control and power over another human's future and identity has led to the government disregarding immigrants' statuses as equals, a fault that has rubbed off in to our immediate society. The most critical of our government's handling of the situation would be the British media. Any fault results in widespread newspaper coverage.
A further pull of the UK was because of the imperialistic com... ... middle of paper ... ...and several high profile investigations in the USA have helped to reduce the amount of this that goes on however it is still accepted that there is still prejudice against ethnic minorities wanting to move out of their traditional central areas that they inhabit. Also, modern public policies are tailored towards equal rights for ethnic minorities and in some cases positive discrimination against the majority white population in an attempt to integrate them more into society and cause dispersal. In conclusion, the UK like the USA and Western Europe is a multicultural society where ethnic minorities maintain their own culture and their own distinctive residential areas, which stem from the time when immigration initially took place and the indirect discrimination and unwillingness to integrate of ethnic minorities.
“Our fear of Immigrants” an article written by Jeremy Adam Smith, starts out by talking about a little boy and his family being deported and the little boys fourth grade class finding out and getting very upset about it so they decide to write to their congressman and speak out to the media about it not being fair that their friend, that they’ve known since kindergarten was deported. Then continues to talk about the people protesting the buses of young immigrants coming into there city. Which then leads into the argument of the article of why people have such a fear of immigrants. Immigration is a widely debated argument throughout the country and even the world. There are ones that are accepting of it and see the possible benefits and the positive sides of immigrants and immigration.
Bohuslav Sobotka, the Czech prime minister, said the following in a recent interview as a warning ‘immigrants may bring about the collapse of the EU.’ Refugees are intruders and impose burdens onto other countries. Refugees will take jobs and resources from struggling
The concepts 'Social Control' and 'Deviance' have more than one definition to me, my understandings of these terms are that they try to group, control and define different kinds of anti-social behaviour. In this essay I will be reflecting on how certain topics have deviant labels attached to them as a result of social control. I will be explaining my initial understanding and views of these topics, going on to explain how they may have been changed, challenged or reinforced after attending lectures and using the sources available to me to expand my knowledge. Also, I will be using evidence from texts I have read to support these views and considering how these contribute to the inner-relationship between 'deviance' and social control. The key topics I will be demonstrating this with are Teenage Mothers, Eugenics, Deviant Bodies and The Cultural Degeneration of Travellers. These topics highlight key areas in which deviant labels are attached to groups of people by social control and how society has tried to control people's views in order to separate class and be in command of what should be seen as acceptable behaviour.
Within England in 1968, new policies were put into force that made it illegal to refuse people with the ethnic background of any employment, public services and housing. In the same year of the release of the policy, Enoch Powell a conservative MP of Wolverhampton delivered a speech in South West called “Rivers of Blood.” He explained that Britain was “literally mad” to allow mass immigration from Commonwealth countries and disagreed on allowing more people into the country, as he felt that the country had let a majority of people in; therefore he felt that England was “mad.” Powell uses Roman literature with his predictions that there would a disaster in Britain, he quotes, "As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I Due to the migrant’s actions, it was leading to many local residents gaining fear.
...has so much power. The findings of this research could be used by campaigners in an attempt to swing an election in their favour, creating an unfair bias in parliament and denigrating the ideals of democracy.
It would be nice to allow people to adhere to their own styles, but doing that excludes them from the already existing nation’s practices. On the other hand, requiring immigrants to completely conform to society, will result in taking away all of their beliefs. According to Malik, “‘multicultural’ has come to define both a society that is particularly diverse, usually as a result of immigration, and the policies necessary to manage such a society” (22). With the immigration that European nations have faced, there is undoubtedly diverse culture present, but the policy aspect of that multicultural definition still needs to be redefined in order to create a balance between diversity and inclusion within