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GOVERNMENTS may be super-exploiting irregular migrants by making it easier to cross borders in order to access cheaper workers, researchers claimed yesterday.
A study focusing on Greece, but with wider implications across European governments, found that migrants have often been used as cheap labour and seen as essential to serve political interests. The study, entitled Punitive Inclusion by Dr Leonidas Cheliotis for the London School of Economics, concludes that the policies and practices of border controls which claim to be tight can in fact be designed badly.
He argued that irregular migrants — people without passports — have been systematically denied asylum, regularisation or even repatriation, leaving them at the mercy of unscrupulous employers in low-income sectors such as construction and agriculture.
As extremist movements grow on the streets and at the ballot box, the emergence of the Together Alliance points to a vital strategy: unity across trade unions, campaigners and communities, says TONY CONWAY
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
RON JACOBS welcomes a book that tells the story of the far right in Greece from the perspective of migrants