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Ilona Pinter 🧡

@ilonapin.bsky.social

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Researcher #FamilyFinances ‪@uofglasgow.bsky.social & #ChildPovMig @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social PhD @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social #childrights #asylum #immigration #NRPF #poverty #inequality Lover of strangers & islands https://linktr.ee/ypseekingsafety

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Ilona Pinter 🧡 @ilonapin.bsky.social · Jun 20

🚨Blog post: "Communities provide VITAL support to children & families seeking sanctuary across the UK. But they cannot protect thousands of children from deep & persistent poverty. Only gov reforms can do that." ilonapinter2019.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/c... #childpoverty #RefugeeWeek #asylumsupport

Refugee Week 2025 Community As a Superpower image saying "This Refugee Week, Our Superpower Is..."

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

If you're interested in understanding segregation and integration better, here is a good paper by the UK's leading academics on the topic

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper analyses the changing geographies of ethnic diversity and segregation in England and Wales using Census data covering the last 30 years (1991–2021). Residential segregation of all ethnic g...

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 1d

Many councils with high levels of poverty would experience significant drops in their assessed share of national children's services needs funding:

Haringey: down 52%
Lewisham: down 51%
Brent: down 50%
Redbridge: down 49%
Newham: down 48%

www.politicshome.com/news/article...

London Councils Face Losing Half Their Share Of Children's Services Funding

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of funding for children’s services halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government gran...

www.politicshome.com

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 1d

The Sun corrects Katie Lam's numerous errors and lies about foreign nationals claiming benefits.

archive.ph/vQ7Tn

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 3d

It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands. The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 3d

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 3d

Batshit.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

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Ilona Pinter 🧡 @ilonapin.bsky.social · 5d

John Peters @johnthejack.bsky.social · 5d

Letter from @enversol.bsky.social in Times today

Text:

Golden ticket claim
Sir, Further to your report “Starmer promises to end asylum seekers’ golden ticket to UK” (Oct 2), to people who have been persecuted, tortured or seen family members killed in brutal wars or by despots, asylum is a lifeline. Talk of them having a golden ticket risks overlooking this fundamental reality and promoting the corrosive myth that the UK gets more refugees than other countries in Europe or the wider world. Ninety per cent of refugee family reunion visas go to women and children. Further restrictions on these visas would risk closing one of the few safe and legal routes to the UK for women and children who need protection. This would be good, if not golden, news for the people smugglers.
Enver Solomon
CEO, Refugee Council

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Sile Reynolds @silereynolds.bsky.social · 6d

For anyone despairing at Labour’s “soft surrender” to Reform…. www.bigissue.com/opinion/labour-reform-immigration-policy-racism/

Labour can't out-Reform Reform – it needs to change tack

The Labour Party can't out-Reform Reform, and if it genuinely wants to choose ‘decency’ over ‘division’, it needs to change tact.

www.bigissue.com

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Changing Realities @changingrealities.bsky.social · 8d

After a meeting with the First Minister, John Swinney, about tackling child poverty in Scotland, Changing Realities participant, Gloria, writes about the delivery plan's theme of whole family support, starting with her broken bed ... @uofgussp.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @bigissue.com ⬇️ 📝

Big Issue @bigissue.com · 8d

Gloria Odhi, a participant of Changing Realities, shared her story with the Scottish first minister with the hope of inspiring change.

I couldn't afford to fix my broken bed. People in poverty like me need help with the essentials

www.bigissue.com

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Ilona Pinter 🧡 @ilonapin.bsky.social · 6d

Horrific

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...
Manchester synagogue: Four people injured in car and stabbing attack - BBC News

Manchester synagogue: Four people injured in car and stabbing attack

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham says it's believed the suspect is dead, and that the immediate danger appears to be over.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 7d

The Home Office doesn't lose as many asylum & deportation cases as it does because of some supposed marginal differences between the application of Art 8 in UK courts and the ECtHR view, it loses so many cases because it's caseload has long been woefully mismanaged...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Starmer wants rethink on international law to tackle migration

The PM gives the clearest sign yet the government wants to reform how human rights laws are applied in immigration cases.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 7d

Is there room for compromise on the two-child limit?

Entirely scrapping it would have the biggest impact on child poverty and be most cost-effective.

The two-child limit means that an
additional 500,000 children are
currently growing up in poverty. If current policies remained in place,
we would expect one-in-three British
children to be growing up in poverty
by the end of the decade

immediate abolition would cost £3.5 billion
per year and lift half a million children out
of poverty by the end of the decade. How do less ambitious options measure up?

Other rumoured options would be less cost effective

and other options would risk creating new cliff edges.

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Ilona Pinter 🧡 @ilonapin.bsky.social · 7d

The previous lab gov lifted the immigration reservation on the UNCRC in 2008. Will we go backwards?

'"But it's more than that," he said, pointing to the UN's Refugee Convention, Torture Convention and Convention on the Rights of the Child as potential barriers.'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Starmer wants rethink on international law to tackle migration

The PM gives the clearest sign yet the government wants to reform how human rights laws are applied in immigration cases.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Urban Studies & Social Policy @uofgussp.bsky.social · 8d

USSP's Professor of Social and Public Policy @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social will deliver this year's Challenge Poverty Week Lecture 🎤
🗓️ Thu 9 October | 6pm | Glasgow Caledonian University
Hosted by @povertyalliance.org + @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social | Register now: www.tfaforms.com/5196599

Image of Professor Ruth Patrick with text overlay 'The Challenge Poverty Week Lecture 2025' and lecture title 'Imagining better: social security, hope/lessness and how we might and must make change happen'. Image include logos for the Poverty Alliance, Scottish Poverty & Inequality Research Unit and Glasgow Caledonian University.

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Ilona Pinter 🧡 @ilonapin.bsky.social · 8d

Looks like yesterday's 'announcement' around earned settlement might not apply to households already in the UK which if true is positive but there may be other restrictions coming. www.thetimes.com/article/13e1...

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Ilona Pinter 🧡 @ilonapin.bsky.social · 8d

I imagine it will all unravel a bit when they get into the detail. But overall it's likely to make settlement yet more difficult for many and that process is likely to fall on the already disadvantaged.

Ilona Pinter 🧡 @ilonapin.bsky.social · 8d

I'm assuming they mean income based benefits but 'not a penny' could imply contributory benefits as well e.g. maternity pay, sickness pay. Can you never get sick? Or wait a decade to have a child?

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Ilona Pinter 🧡 @ilonapin.bsky.social · 8d

Quite! And how are children meant to 'contribute'? We never think about the children but they will be a large part of this population that will be adversely affected.

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Ilona Pinter 🧡 @ilonapin.bsky.social · 9d

What does this even mean? So if you have NRPF conditions lifted because you were destitute, then you can never settle? Can you get a penny in contributory benefits? And if only 'being in work' was equitably accessible...

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d

Mahmood says she will introduce new conditions for indefinite leave to remain:

Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering

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Ilona Pinter 🧡 @ilonapin.bsky.social · 9d

Yes exactly this sort of thing causes huge anxiety to individuals and families who already have ILR and have often paid thousands of pounds for it, on top of other taxes and fees. Money that could've gone to helping with children's higher education or securing a home.

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 14d

Screening tomorrow! 📽️ This Jungo Life is showing at Genesis Cinema, Whitechapel, London, with a Q&A. The event raises funds for @captainsupportuk.bsky.social, a grassroots network supporting people criminalised for moving or supporting others to move.

Tickets 🎟️ www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/101321

Events | Genesis Cinema

www.genesiscinema.co.uk

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 11d

NEW: When Labour voters were asked why they believed things were getting worse for the UK, they overwhelmingly cited Brexit as the number one cause, with 69 per cent naming the decision to leave the European Union as the main reason behind the country’s problems.

inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Britain is going backwards under Starmer, Labour voters say

Disappointing figures come on the eve of a crucial Labour Party Conference

inews.co.uk

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Ilona Pinter 🧡 @ilonapin.bsky.social · 12d

Oh this is good news! Glad to see this has now been published.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 12d

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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Ilona Pinter 🧡 @ilonapin.bsky.social · 14d