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	<description>In a few words, explain what this blog is about.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8220;One day without us&#8221; - virtual strike in solidarity with migrants in Italy</title>
		<link>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/05/one-day-without-us-virtual-strike-in-solidarity-with-migrants-in-italy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>c.andreatta</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Reports]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[migrants]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[strike]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[undocumented migrants]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/?p=485</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Organisations across Italy launched a ‘virtual strike’ in solidarity with migrants on 1st March, symbolically entitled ‘One Day Without Us’.

One of the initiators of the action operating in the northern city of Turin, Luciano Scagliotti, has sent this report to MRN.
To organise ‘One Day Without Us’ we opted for a sort of “virtual strike” (going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integrating Cities Conference in London – a missed opportunity?</title>
		<link>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/04/who-and-how-to-integrate-integrating-cities-conference-in-london/</link>
		<comments>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/04/who-and-how-to-integrate-integrating-cities-conference-in-london/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rhk</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Juan Camilo]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[immigration policies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[integration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mayor of London]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[undocumented migrants]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/?p=480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the 22nd of February the Mayor of London hosted the fourth ‘Integrating Cities Conference’ in City Hall. The conference brought together mayors, European Commission representatives, members of migrant organisations and public officials from several European cities to share experiences and approaches to migrant integration and to sign the Eurocities Charter on Integrating Cities. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The day the immigrants left</title>
		<link>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/02/25/the-day-the-immigrants-left/</link>
		<comments>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/02/25/the-day-the-immigrants-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>don</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Don Flynn]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Eastern Europe]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EU migration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[immigrants]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[jobs market]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/?p=476</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Strangely charming documentary on BBC1 last night - &#8220;The Day the Immigrants Left&#8221; - which I flagged up on the MRN Facebook wall a week or so ago. I thought it made a good case that the new economy that has come into existence in places like Wisbech - a small town in rural Cambridgeshire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British national identity and the art of queuing&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/02/18/british-national-identity-and-the-art-of-queuing/</link>
		<comments>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/02/18/british-national-identity-and-the-art-of-queuing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:42:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ruth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ruth Grove-White]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[citizenship]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[immigrant community]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[migration to UK]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[national identity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Phil Woolas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/?p=469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Phil Woolas&#8217; latest comments last weekend have set tongues wagging again about the necessary benchmarks for migrants to meet in order to become &#8216;proper Brits&#8217;. Ministers are fond of talking in broad terms about the need for migrants to ‘earn their citizenship’ by demonstrating &#8216;British values&#8217;. But little attempt has been made by the Home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigration debate and local councils</title>
		<link>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/02/16/immigration-debate-and-local-councils/</link>
		<comments>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/02/16/immigration-debate-and-local-councils/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>don</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Don Flynn]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[anti-immigrant]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[councils]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[migration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/?p=467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This piece in the FT (&#8221;Immigration pushes councils to limit&#8220;) shows how murky the immigration debate is likely to get in the period ahead. Council leaders in the three areas surveyed – Boston, Peterborough and Slough – all agree that immigration has boosted their local economies and they generally feel good about it. But, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Secretary makes sudden changes affecting foreign students</title>
		<link>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/02/09/home-secretary-makes-sudden-changes-affecting-foreign-students/</link>
		<comments>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/02/09/home-secretary-makes-sudden-changes-affecting-foreign-students/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ruth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ruth Grove-White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/?p=461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Points Based System (PBS) for immigration is meant to ensure that the government can make swift changes to the criteria for work and study in the UK, in order to respond to ‘changing needs’. But I wonder if anyone else was surprised to hear the news on the radio last Sunday afternoon that a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Fast and Fair?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/02/09/fast-and-fair/</link>
		<comments>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/02/09/fast-and-fair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>don</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Don Flynn]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/?p=458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Too many migrants are getting a lousy service from the UK Border Agency, according to a report that has just come out today by the Parliamentary Ombudsman. Yet bet, and if the office of something as mainstream as this outfit is prepared to be vocal on the issue, then things must be very grim indeed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new iron law of public policy debate seems to be emerging.</title>
		<link>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/02/04/a-new-iron-law-of-public-policy-debate-seems-to-be-emerging/</link>
		<comments>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/02/04/a-new-iron-law-of-public-policy-debate-seems-to-be-emerging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>don</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Don Flynn]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/?p=451</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The more politicians proclaim the need for ‘honest conversations’ about immigration policy, the more likely that what follows will be spurious nonsense.

The New Labour Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge, has provided us with a fine example of the operation of this dictum in her advocacy of a ‘points-based’ route to welfare benefit entitlement, which would prolong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s having a rational debate about immigration? Plenty of people&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/01/27/whos-having-a-rational-debate-about-immigration-plenty-of-people/</link>
		<comments>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/01/27/whos-having-a-rational-debate-about-immigration-plenty-of-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ruth</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Ruth Grove-White]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/?p=448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone else find it frustrating when prominent politicians moan about the lack of a ‘proper debate’ on immigration, especially in the lead-up to a general election when soundbites are the order of the day?

There was Home Secretary Alan Johnson talking about how “the public deserves a rational debate on [immigration], rather than what they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arguing migration during the general election campaign:How will the issues pan out?</title>
		<link>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/01/19/arguing-migration-during-the-general-election-campaignhow-will-the-issues-pan-out/</link>
		<comments>http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/index.php/2010/01/19/arguing-migration-during-the-general-election-campaignhow-will-the-issues-pan-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>don</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Don Flynn]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/?p=445</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The opening shots for GE2010 seem to have come from the Balanced Migration Group – the cross party parliamentary set-up formed to advance the position of MigrationWatch UK. Its “Declaration on Population” proclaims that “70 million is too many”, thereby setting the parameters for a discussion destined to generate more heat than light.

But by reading such [...]]]></description>
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