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      Migrant workers at greater risk of modern slavery after Brexit, research finds

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 1 April - 04:00

    Exclusive: Visas created hastily to solve labour shortages expose people to ‘hyper-precarity’ and exploitation

    Visas created hastily to solve labour shortages as a result of Brexit have put workers at greater risk of modern slavery and exploitation, research has found.

    Strict conditions on agricultural and care visas created after Britain left the EU expose workers to “hyper-precarity” and increase their vulnerability to exploitation, a study by a coalition of leading universities and charities has concluded. Since Brexit, farm workers and care home workers have had a route to Britain on time-limited visas with stringent conditions.

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      Drift review – quietly mesmerising Greek island refugee tale

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 31 March - 10:30

    As a young Liberian woman in survival mode, Cynthia Erivo carries Anthony Chen’s unassuming drama

    Understated, but with a mesmerising, shell-shocked stillness, British actor Cynthia Erivo’s arresting central performance gives this earnest drama by Singaporean director Anthony Chen ( Ilo Ilo , Wet Season ) its emotional heft. She plays Jacqueline, a traumatised refugee from war-torn Liberia who has recently arrived on a Greek island. The jagged, rocky terrain of her new home evokes her fractured mental state. But even in survival mode, subsisting on scavenged leftovers and small change, Jacqueline is too proud to beg. That same dignity prompts her to invent a story – a husband and a hotel room – when she strikes up a friendship with an empathic American tour guide, Callie (Alia Shawkat). This portrait of lost souls connecting is unassuming, but quietly powerful.

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      ‘Pushed to the limit’: the tiny Greek island in people smugglers’ sights

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 27 March - 06:00

    Fears of a new migration route grow as more than 800 people land on Gavdos, population fewer than 70, in a few months

    Even by the standards of small Greek islands, Gavdos is tiny. In a population of fewer than 70 people, there are just two families with four children. The rest “are all old people mostly living alone”, its mayor, Lilian Stefanaki, explains.

    It is a micro-world that in the depths of winter is served by a single school, a bakery, two mini-markets and four kafeneia cum tavernas. The remote island – separated from the coast of Crete by frequently unpredictable waters in the Libyan Sea – is watched over by Efsevios Daskalakis, who for much of the year is its sole police officer.

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      Some news regarding jappix.com and fr.movim.eu

      Timothée Jaussoin · pubsub.movim.eu / Movim · Monday, 25 February, 2019 - 16:02 edit

    Following our previous post. The owner of the French #server that was hosting the jappix.com XMPP server and fr.movim.eu pod is turning of his server at the end of the month.

    The jappix.com server has just been merged with the movim.eu XMPP server (they are handled by the same ejabberd instance) and the fr.movim.eu pod will be turned off and redirected to nl.movim.eu for now.

    #migration #movim #jappix #xmpp