Everyone’s been affected by the pandemic. Those in the migrant sector have been hit harder still.
A letter to the Brighton College community, May 2020
Dear friends,
At the moment, many of you are in the confines of your own homes, wondering when you can leave again. For many asylum seekers and undocumented migrants, the situation is a little different.
The UK migrant sector needs your help.
Prior to the pandemic, many were barred from legally seeking work, or accessing public funds. Now, even as Universal Credit recipients across the country see a £20 / week increase in their allowance for the next 12 months, no such relief exists…
In his last article, Mason Leung reported on his story interviewing two murderers in the US, and learning about how the system had failed them. In this issue, he reports on another marginalised group — this time much closer to home.
This article was written after an interview with Mel Steel, director of Brighton Voices in Exile. Sources, omitted for clarity, are available on request.
This was originally published in the Brighton College newspaper A World Connected in June 2019.
Summary: Following a rise in anti-immigrant sentiments, migrants to the UK (including asylum seekers as well as economic migrants) are…
In this article, I reflect on my experience interviewing Jose, a formerly incarcerated inmate living in New York City, as part of an investigative project I did into the New York State corrections system. The final article we produced in 2017, along with three of my teammates, is linked here.
I text a murderer on a regular basis. Really. …
Mason Leung
Refugee rights advocate and secondary school student in the UK. I document my thoughts on migrant policy, identity issues and more.
