Social Fabric and Equal Footing

The UK-Rwanda deal and the bleak scope of refugee rights

In April this year, the UK government announced a deal with the government of Rwanda in which any person arriving to the UK ‘illegally’ could be sent to Rwanda on a one-way ticket for ‘processing’. The first flight as part of this controversial partnership was given the go-ahead last month. In a (...)

Thursday 7 July 2022

Part of the tapestry: the Roma community in the UK

In many ways, the lives of the Roma community in the UK (sometimes known as a sub-group called Romanichal Travellers) have become more difficult in recent years. They face relentless discrimination, with the most recent example showing itself in the government’s newly-passed law that even (...)

Friday 3 June 2022

Roma in the EU: Why do policies fail?

For the last two decades, the European Union has not had a particular interest in Roma issues. However, with the eastward expansions, a significant number of Roma people became EU citizens and were then able to benefit from the advantages this citizenship grants them, including the freedom to (...)

Tuesday 31 May 2022

What barriers do the Roma face in Europe?

Discrimination against the Roma in Europe is systemic and deeply rooted in history, so it’s difficult to completely root it out. But what does this discrimination entail in Europe? What are the issues the Roma community faces on our continent? Using the three pillars of the EU Roma strategic (...)

Sunday 29 May 2022

Europe and Roma people: a complicated history

On Romani Resistance Day, which serves to commemorate the Romani fight against nazism, The New Federalist is launching a feature dedicated to the Roma community in Europe. Our articles will shed light on the multifaceted and complicated situation in which the minority finds itself on the (...)

Monday 16 May 2022

Access to Trans Healthcare: the situation in Europe

For this year’s International Transgender Day of Visability, Věra Dvořáková looks at the barriers in access to healthcare that the trans* community still face across Europe. The 31st March is the International Transgender Day of Visibility: a day dedicated to the celebration of transgender people (...)

Thursday 31 March 2022

The Rise of Participatory Democracy in Europe

The year is 2022. Trust in democracy and voter turnout ebb inexorably everywhere on the Old Continent, while extremist figures asphyxiate moderate candidates in the polls. A quick glance would paint a gloomy picture of the state of European democracy, and yet, a closer peek tells us a (...)

Thursday 10 March 2022

‘A war within a war’: blocking trans* asylum seekers at the Ukrainian border

The invasion of Ukraine has devastated the lives of Ukrainian civilians. For marginalised groups, war compounds inequalities that already exist and exacerbates them. The intersections of oppression due to race, sexuality, gender identity, or disability present further challenges in reaching (...)

Wednesday 9 March 2022

Migrants in Tarlabaşı: A safe haven or a marginalised space?

In the words of May Hobbs, an activist who was deeply involved in the Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1970s and established the first trade union for cleaners, ‘one person’s slum is another person’s community.’ This phrase finds its reflection in the case study of Tarlabaşı, often referred to as (...)

Saturday 27 November 2021

A smoking volcano: tackling ableism and the forces fuelling it within the European Union.

Ableism is one of the final frontiers in the fight for inclusion, equality, and diversity. However, it is also a word that some disabled people and many non-disabled people would not recognise if they were accused of or confronted with it. This is why the European Union, and all of us, need to (...)

Thursday 19 August 2021

The challenges faced by transgender asylum seekers in Europe

Within modern day Europe, it is assumed and believed by many that our society is one that can be classified as socially progressive. Whether this is considered positive or negative, it is a belief upheld by many. Often, these arguments come hand in hand with comparisons to other areas of the (...)

Thursday 22 July 2021

Is the new European Strategy for Disabled People going to help Disabled Europeans?

As a disabled (autistic) professional and federalist in the UK, it always pays to check what your European counterparts are doing or could be affected by, even if you’re outside of the European Union and single market rules (unless you’re in the steaming kettle of fish that’s Northern Ireland). (...)

Thursday 15 July 2021
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