‘RACISM FROM THE TOP DOWN’ – BOYCOTT THE SCHOOL CENSUS

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Student and tagged activism, Against Borders for Children, anti-migrant sentiment, awareness raising, boycott, Brexit, child safety, childhood, children, Community, data, data collection, department for education, deportation, direct action, discrimination, Early Years Census, education, england, FOI, government, hate crime, Home Office, immigration policy, institutional racism, Lord Storey, May 18th, media, migrant children, migrants, migration, National Pupil Database, national union of teachers, nationality, nicky morgan, parents, polling, prejudice, privacy, racism, school census, schools, Schools ABC, state violence, survey, teachers, theresa may.

by Against Borders for Children

“…this proposal has all the hallmarks of racism…Children are children, and to use their personal information for immigration enforcement is disingenuous, irresponsible, and not the hallmark of a tolerant, open and caring society”
– Lord Storey

Against Borders for Children (ABC) is a coalition of parents, teachers, schools and campaigners. Our aim is to reverse the Department of Education’s (DfE) policy to collect country of birth and nationality information on 8 million children in England in order to ‘create a hostile environment’ for migrant children in schools, primarily by encouraging a mass boycott of the School Census.

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BORDERLINES – THE PRIVILEGE OF PASSPORTS AND THE DANGER OF DUAL CITIZENSHIP

Posted on December 13, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Borderlines, Inter|national and tagged belonging, bicultural, biculturalism, Borderlines, citizenship, documents, foreigners, identity, immigration, migrant, migration, nationalism, nationality, papers, passport, privilege, rights, South Africa, theresa may, travel, uk.

Borderlines is a collection of thought pieces, some creative, some direct accounts, some memoirs, all true. Borderlines collects stories from people who are not fleeing from one country to another, but rather chose to move, or were made to do so by a series of non-threatening circumstances. In these stories there is anger, hope, disappointment, joy, fear, optimism. They are all different, and yet all striking in their approach to the subject matter.

Borderlines aims to show the reality of migration, and how we are all, in our own way, migrants.Continue Reading

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