Image: https://unsplash.com/@kaleamorgan By Molly Claire On the 25th of May 2020, the world saw the racially aggravated murder of African American man George Floyd, a catalyst that ignited the international organisation widely known as the Black Lives Matter...
Category: Racism/Xenphobia
Racial Inequality from Different Perspectives and the Influence Media Has on Racism
Image: BBC News - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-43782851 By Ellis Griffiths Phipps Inequality remains extremely common in the modern, interconnected world we live in today. It is vital to explore inequality at both an national scale as well as at a global...
The Impact of the Past: How British Colonialism Affects the Modern World
Image: https://unsplash.com/@pichler_sebastian By Laura Endler Colonisation is not a concept of the past. Although few countries remain under British rule it can often be forgotten that before World War One the British Empire was the most powerful unity in the...
One of the Challenges Facing Contemporary Immigrants: Tagging
Image: https://unsplash.com/@nitishm By Siyu Li On Twitter, people use hashtags to summarize events concisely. We can usually get new information by browsing popular tags. However, using simple tags to generalize a group often loses information. If people label...
American Detention Camps: for animals or humans?
Image: https://unsplash.com/@martinols3n By Chelsey Gamage America, supposedly the greatest country in the world? Locking up innocent people who are fleeing dangerous situations, or just looking for a better life, now that sounds like America. For many years now,...
The Friendly Face of Capitalism? Performative Activism, Climate Change and Black Lives Matter
Image: https://unsplash.com/@jays_vers By Esme Hadfield The multinational oil company, Shell, is notorious for playing a prominent role in producing the current climate emergency crisis. However, on November 2nd 2020, Shell caused outrage after posting a twitter...
Harsh Reality of Racism Faced by Muslim Immigrants
Image: Chronicle Live By Amy Mcilwraith Abused. Assaulted. Attacked. This is the harsh and sad reality of life for many Muslim immigrants today. A combination of racism, ignorance and ‘poor police responses to hate crimes’ leaves the Muslim migrant community very...
Hostile Immigration Policies: The Consequences
Image: Ramon Espinosa/AP By Frances Osman-Allu According to a report by the International Organization of Migration, there have been over 33,400 recorded deaths of immigrants when migrating towards another country since 2014. Due to increasingly strict border...
Did the Syrian Revolution cause Brexit? A look into the xenophobia behind the vote
Image: https://unsplash.com/@carrier_lost By Elsa Holm The Brexit uncertainty and its seemingly endless deadlock negotiations faded into the background this year in light of the coronavirus pandemic. It came to my attention again recently when I was sat with my...
Grenfell: The repercussions of racial capitalism through gentrification
Image: Andrew Redington/Getty Images By Daniele CicenaiteIn 2013/2014 London’s Gini co-efficient was 0.444, 3rd on the list of ten least equal cities and towns in the UK. Large, dense, knowledge-based places don’t just reflect inequalities but also help create...
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