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"Fingers clinging to a crimp hold, eyes fixed determinedly on his goal, young Waleed (pictured above) scales the bouldering wall at The Climbing Hangar in Liverpool.  

Waleed was newly arrived in the UK from Sudan three years ago, when he became among the first to take part in Refugees Rock, then a fledgling project offering free climbing sessions to refugees and asylum seekers.  

It’s easy to imagine what might be going through his head. ‘Will I make it?’, perhaps, or ‘What happens if I fail?’ As a sporting metaphor for the challenges faced by refugees like him, climbing could not be more apt. 

“That feeling when people make it to the top for the first time and they look back down at you: they’re beaming and smiling because they’ve got there, and everyone’s cheering. It has a much deeper meaning than just climbing,” said Emma Leaper. Leaper is national coordinator with the Action Asylum initiative, which runs Refugees Rock alongside The British Red Cross and the Climbing Hangar.  

“It reflects the resilience of some of the people we’re working with, the journeys they’ve undergone and the fact that they’ve come all this way in the face of adversity.” 

Next month marks Refugees Rock’s third year in operation. Starting with just a handful of anxious newbies at The Climbing Hangar’s Liverpool branch, it now hosts hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers at 14 centres across the UK.  

Camaraderie is a huge draw. In a show of solidarity, local climbers have been recruited as volunteer ‘boulder buddies’ to show asylum-seeking newcomers the ropes, and extend a warm hand of friendship. 

“It’s just wonderful,” said Leaper. “You leave your problems behind. You’re not thinking about your asylum case, or the fact that you’re separated from your family and the trauma you’ve gone through – you’re thinking about the problem on the wall in front of you. 

“But the biggest difference I notice in people is in their confidence – up on that wall, they’re basically finding themselves again.”"

-via Positive.News, March 27, 2024

a white english anti-war socialist wins a seat in parliament and the next day the hindi PM says that this is an alarming sign of rising rabid-antisemitism, far-right politics, and islamic fundamentalism.

??? what

Ali Ali Jenabi, a convicted people smuggler, tried to imagine the queue asylum seekers are meant to join, that he first heard about in an Australian courtroom. ‘What do they think? That when the secret police are shooting at you, you run down the street yelling, “Where’s the queue? Where’s the queue?”’ There was no UN office in Iraq, he noted, and the nearest one was two countries away in Pakistan. An Iraqi man who had endured imprisonment in Abu Ghraib under Saddam’s regime, he eventually made it to Indonesia. Here, he began to earn money by smuggling people to a small island in Australian waters, seven boats in all, so that he could bring his own family to safety.

As Jenabi’s story suggests, the motivations behind people smuggling are varied and complex. Many who have helped a person undertake an illegal crossing might not recognise themselves as people smugglers. This is borne out by the 2018 UNODC report on smuggling migrants, which noted that as a general pattern, ‘smaller-scale smugglers are either ethnically linked to the territories where they operate, or they share ethnic or linguistic ties with the migrants they smuggle.’

Jenabi was eventually caught by Australian Federal Police in Thailand, after he had brought 500 people safely to Australia, but this is unusual. Indonesian fishermen are usually the ones who have done time for the crime of people smuggling in Australian jails. These are the equivalent of Europe’s foot soldiers, paid to bring clients across a border. Often, Indonesian boat crews are willing to take the risk of being caught and jailed in Australia on mandatory minimum five-year terms, because whatever money they earn is more than what subsistence fishing or farming brings on the small islands of southeast Indonesia, from where most Indonesian people smuggling crews live and work.

What Jenabi’s story also shows is that, contrary to popular assumptions about asylum seekers as passive participants in journeys or routes not of their own making, many are actively involved in decisions about smugglers, routes and destinations. In his own firsthand account, Dawood Amiri also upended the usual classification of people smugglers as criminals feeding off the naivety and desperation of asylum seekers. ‘Honestly, he writes, ‘the people who help asylum-seekers the most are people-smugglers. And these asylum-seekers want to be smuggled.’ All of the people whose stories feature in our book were willing participants in illegality. Sometimes, of course, illegality can mean breaking the law to save one’s life in a world where that law has turned the basic moral code upside down, such as, for example, the perverse universe of Nazism. Often, what was illegal at one point in the journey was legal at another.

Borders aren't fucking real. No one is illegal.

Migrates this, migrates that

'Where's all the families?'

The Irish fleeing the potato famine in the 1840's....

Tried making a Desi OC in the Outsiders and immediately gave up because what the fuck are they doing in Tulsa anyways??

“Small boat” migrant arrivals to UK reached one-day high

711 people were brought ashore in one day this week after trying to cross the Channel in small boats to reach the UK.

The number is the highest so far this year and comes as London claims its “stop the boats” plan is working, thanks in part to a controversial deportation scheme to Rwanda.

The number of arrivals on Wednesday surpassed the previous high of 534 recorded on 14 April, bringing the total number of migrants who have crossed the Channel this year to 8,278. The highest number of arrivals in a single day was 1,295, recorded on 22 August 2022.

On Wednesday, French police said they had rescued 66 people after their boat nearly sank off the coastal town of Dieppe.

Migration – both regular and irregular – has become a major political issue in Britain, given the government’s pledge to tighten the country’s borders after leaving the European Union. However, this has proved harder to implement, with the Conservative government desperate to extol its successes ahead of the general election later this year.

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