#migrant

[memenewsdotcom]

Senate dismisses Mayorkas impeachment

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#Alejandro Mayorkas #America #asylum #border #homeland security #immigration #impeachment #meme #memes #mexico #migrant #news #united states

[federer7]

Eighteen-Year-Old Mother from Oklahoma, now a California Migrant. 1937

Photo: Dorothea Lange

#Dorothea Lange #1937 #march #mother #oklahoma #california #Migrant

[typhlonectes]

Time to prepare for Ruby-throated Hummingbirds...

Get your feeders ready, and your hummingbird plants planted!

via: Mississippi State University Extension

#hummingbird #bird #ornithology #migrant #migration #birdwatching #animals #nature #north america

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

Republican hypocrisy knows no bounds.

#border #crisis #migrant #migrants #migrant caravans #drugs #Fentanyl #immigrants #immigration #illegal #Mike Johnson #Steve Scalise #The Mad Sonneteer #Bud Koenemund #Koenemund #MAGA #MAGA Morons

[probablyasocialecologist]

Last year, during the hottest summer on record, Angel and hundreds of other workers on Dearnsdale fruit farm in Staffordshire were told to pick and sort about 100-150kg of strawberries every day inside polytunnels designed to trap heat. It was so hot that at least one worker fainted, she said. The strawberries they picked ended up on the shelves of some of the UK’s largest supermarkets, including Tesco, Co-op and Lidl.

An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and VICE World News has uncovered widespread mistreatment of migrants working at more than 20 UK farms, nurseries and packhouses in 2022. Workers reported a litany of problems, from not going to the toilet for fear of not hitting targets, to being made to work in gale-force winds. Some said they would be shouted at or punished for having their mobile in their pocket or talking to work colleagues while on the field. Others said they were threatened by recruiters with being deported or blacklisted.

Many were left in debt and destitution, and some left the UK being owed money by their employers. One worker even had to pull out his own tooth because he could not find appropriate medical care. Our findings expose a poorly enforced government visa scheme that is flagrantly breached by farms and recruiters, and which leaves people vulnerable to exploitation.

At Dearnsdale, those who made mistakes or failed to hit targets were routinely sanctioned. The most common punishment was to have their shift cut short – every day several workers would be sent back to their caravans after only a few hours’ work. That meant that on a day when a worker was hoping to earn money for eight hours of work, they would be paid for only three. The practice is common on farms using the visa scheme.

For workers like Angel, who took on debt to pay for visas and flights to come to the UK, having their earnings cut was devastating. Even after picking fruit and vegetables for five months, she still has not been able to pay off her £1,250 loan.

[...]

Human rights experts and lawyers say that the design of the UK seasonal worker visa puts workers at an increased risk of exploitation. Because these visas tie migrants to their sponsor, a recruiter, workers are then unable to seek work with anyone else, even if they have problems with their employer or their recruiter stops offering them work.

Workers are not only dependent on their recruiter and the farm employing them for work, but also for their housing, transportation and even information about their employment rights. Workers who are this dependent on their employer can find it harder to leave exploitative situations.

#uk #farming #agriculture #migrant #migrant workers

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Responsibility for public health was now understood to be a task for government, not just for working-class women who – until then – had been the only ones concerned with the cleanliness of slum houses, the only ones asking for clean water and working drains.

One such working-class woman was Kitty Wilkinson, an Irish migrant in Liverpool who had been a cotton mill worker and a domestic servant. She opened up her laundry business to her poor neighbours for a penny a week, allowing them to use her boiler and bleach to disinfect their clothes during the 1832 cholera epidemic. She became known as the 'saint of the slums' and campaigned for public bathhouses for the poor.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

#book quotes #normal women #philippa gregory #nonfiction #responsibility #public health #government jobs #working class #cleanliness #slums #clean water #drainage #kitty wilkinson #irish #migrant #liverpool #cotton mill #domestic servant #laundry business #boiler #bleach #disinfecting #30s #1830s #19th century #cholera #saint of the slums #public bathhouse

[itsagrimm]

Leida Mothma and the struggle for identity

Mon Mothma says about her daughter Leida practicing traditions: "It's weird. It's stronger here than it is at home." And I can't stop thinking about Leida Mothma and her portrayal as a very privileged yet uprooted kid with a migrant background being unusually traditional.

Growing up away from the culture and the people she is supposed to be part of, is challenging and confusing. It is hard to find identity as a teenage migrant, culture and personal access to her people's traditions when removed from it. And it is not surprising that Leida seeks out the most overt and uncomplicated access she can find to her culture and heritage, even if those are conservative and regressive. Those practices are a lifeline for her, simply because she has or knows of no other options.

As someone with a fairly similar background IRL I sympathise deeply with her character. It is a failure of the society she lives in to include her as she is in a way, that would not drive her into dogmatic traditionalism for identity. And it is worryingly normal for kids to feel like they have to hyper-conform in one way or another to have access to their migrant families background or the societal expectations of the place they live in now. It's as if we still haven't figured out how to be inclusive of those we don't understand. And the most vulnerable are the collateral of that.

#where are my fellow migrant kids #my complicated identity people #my -‟bilingual or more since childhood while knowing so little about 'home'‟ kiddos #my ‟i wish i wouldn't forget the language or learn how to read and write in it‟ pals #my ‟i miss a place i barely remember‟ folk #shout out also to religious converts #and everyone else feeling the struggle #and this is not an attack on mon mothma this family dynamic is clearly fucked and contributes to this mess #also leida mothma is a child #judging her like she is an adult is just sinnister #she clearly needs support and not more bullshit #andor #andor spoilers #mon mothma #andor star wars #migrant #leida mothma #sw andor

[equalvision]

'Migrant Returned' by The Dear Hunter, to celebrate its 10 year anniversary. Available 10/06/23. Pre-order the vinyl + listen to "An Escape" here.

#the dear hunter #migrant #returned #album #vinyl #10 year anniversary #equal vision records #equal vision

[abstracteddistractions]

CHRISTO, "Package on a luggage rack," 1962,

© Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation,

Photography: Eeva-Inkeri,

Courtesy Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation and Gagosian.

#art #abstract #abstraction #forms #abstractart #sculpture #minimal #christo #package #luggage #1962 #jeanne-claude #migrant #gagosian #movement #preservation #refugees

[giommarresi]

Two twinks from Pakistan to Italy in my new comic

#illustration #comics #fumetto #indiecomics #illustrations #illo #indie comics #illustrazione #giommarresi #art #pakistan #travel #journey #bologna #italy #pizza #integration #migrant #migrants

[memenewsdotcom]

Ferromex suspends routes amid migrant surge

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#America #asylum-seeker #business #ferromex #freight train #human rights #immigration #la bestia #meme #memes #mexico #migrant #migration #news #shipping #the beast #trains #united states

[typhlonectes]

A school of Sockeye Salmon swimming upstream to spawn. In the foreground, an Arctic Char waits.

photograph via: Jonny Armstrong | USGS 

#salmon #char #salmonid #fish #ichthyology #migrant #animals #nature #north america #aquatic #rivers #freshwater

[birbliothecaire]

oh d'ailleurs j'ai fini Migrant ça y est je peux aller hate read la chronique de l'épaule d'orion

#ça risque de spoil si je commente. désolée #je taguerai tout proprement bien sûr #migrant #brevi finietur

[calabria-mediterranea]

80 year old woman from Botricello (Calabria, Italy) offers her family's burial chapel for migrant children who died in Calabria shipwreck

Nicoletta Parisi, an eighty years old widow who lives in Botricello, near Steccato di Cutro, recently lost her husband after spending many years together. When she saw the terrible images of the shipwreck of Steccato di Cutro she was moved and she immediately thought of doing something in the face of a tragedy that killed many people and many children.

She immediately decided to donate the family chapel to welcome some of those children who died in the sea. Mrs. Nicoletta did something else: she went to the cemetery to announce to her husband: "In a few days you won't be alone anymore, some children will come to keep you company". Such an extraordinary woman.

Source: Corriere della Sera and Fanpage

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#calabria #italy #crotone #cutro #italia #shipwreck #migrants #migrant #children #south italy #southern italy #mediterranean #2023 #calabria shipwreck

[theanarchistscookbook]

#rights #god #government #arm #guns #gun #migrant #immigrant

[queerism1969]

#immigrants #migrant #americans #citizens #asylum #refugees #trafficking #right wing politics #right wing women #right wing antisemitism #right wing nut jobs #right wing idiots #right wing tomfoolery #right wing extremism #conservatives #liberals #american politics #progressives #usa politics