UK Border Farce It would be easy enough to see the farcical nature(Pertaining to or of the nature of a farce) of the new Tier 4 visa restrictions (those aimed at ‘adult’ students, a.k.a. international university students) as some kind of error or self-defeating bureaucratic fuck up. But, not unlike the management of call centres […]
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The Arithmetic of Border Control
Immigration and Border Control Joe Rigby weighs in on the debate over the value of different forms of immigration and argues that neo-racism prevents questioning of how immigration came to be constituted as a problem at all. Numbers, limits and caps, or more precisely, their real, purported and/or threatened transgressions, are key operators in the […]
Den Plirono – Refusal to Pay!
A widespread movement against austerity in Greece is alarming governments and making markets tremble. The tactic that’s so threatening to the IMF, the EU and the Greek government? A simple refusal to pay. Since the IMF-EU austerity plan was launched last May, average Greek salaries have shrunk by 20 per cent and unemployment has soared […]