Motaz Amer
@motazamer.bsky.social
Refugees & Migration Activist | Human Rights Campaigner | @amnestyuk.bsky.social Country Coordinator for Yemen
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Motaz Amer
@motazamer.bsky.social
· Nov 23
The asylum system is changing in ways that put people escaping war at risk.
As someone who came here for safety, this matters to me deeply.
We can do better.
We need a system that protects people not punishes them.
Clip below from BBC iPlayer (Politics Live)
As someone who came here for safety, this matters to me deeply.
We can do better.
We need a system that protects people not punishes them.
Clip below from BBC iPlayer (Politics Live)
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Time to listen to what younger voices say about the stupidity of Brexit.
“The future must be about rebuilding connections not only with Europe but also with each other.”
“The future must be about rebuilding connections not only with Europe but also with each other.”
Scotland’s young people face limited opportunities after Brexit but could their vision for the future re-shape Scotland’s place in Europe? | Motaz Amer
Brexit stole our future: young people are demanding it back
Scotland’s young people face limited opportunities after Brexit but could their vision for the future re-shape Scotland’s place in Europe?
bylines.scot
December 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Time to listen to what younger voices say about the stupidity of Brexit.
“The future must be about rebuilding connections not only with Europe but also with each other.”
“The future must be about rebuilding connections not only with Europe but also with each other.”
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“So many people in Scotland have been badly affected by the cost of living crisis and social divisions over immigration. Its hard to look at these problems and not think: would the negative impact have been lessened if the Brexit vote had gone differently?"
#Brexit
#Eramus
#Scotland🏴
#Brexit
#Eramus
#Scotland🏴
Brexit stole our future: young people are demanding it back
Scotland’s young people face limited opportunities after Brexit but could their vision for the future re-shape Scotland’s place in Europe?
bylines.scot
December 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
“So many people in Scotland have been badly affected by the cost of living crisis and social divisions over immigration. Its hard to look at these problems and not think: would the negative impact have been lessened if the Brexit vote had gone differently?"
#Brexit
#Eramus
#Scotland🏴
#Brexit
#Eramus
#Scotland🏴
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"This raises bigger questions about the future. What do young Scots want beyond Brexit? Some see independence as the route back into Europe. Others want to focus on reforming Britain as a whole. What is clear is that young people do not want to be left out of the conversation again."
Brexit stole our future: young people are demanding it back
Scotland’s young people face limited opportunities after Brexit but could their vision for the future re-shape Scotland’s place in Europe?
bylines.scot
December 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"This raises bigger questions about the future. What do young Scots want beyond Brexit? Some see independence as the route back into Europe. Others want to focus on reforming Britain as a whole. What is clear is that young people do not want to be left out of the conversation again."
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EXCLUSIVE: The UK re-joining the Erasmus scheme must not be a 'one-off fix' and should be part of an effort to 'fully restore rights' stripped from young people post-Brexit, a student campaigner has said
Erasmus U-turn cannot be 'one-off fix', says student campaigner
www.thenational.scot
December 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
EXCLUSIVE: The UK re-joining the Erasmus scheme must not be a 'one-off fix' and should be part of an effort to 'fully restore rights' stripped from young people post-Brexit, a student campaigner has said
If you think bilingual children in Glasgow are “culture smashing” the city, the problem isn’t the kids.
The problem is your politics.
One in three young people speaking more than one language is not a crisis.
It’s a strength. It’s Scotland 🏴
The problem is your politics.
One in three young people speaking more than one language is not a crisis.
It’s a strength. It’s Scotland 🏴
December 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If you think bilingual children in Glasgow are “culture smashing” the city, the problem isn’t the kids.
The problem is your politics.
One in three young people speaking more than one language is not a crisis.
It’s a strength. It’s Scotland 🏴
The problem is your politics.
One in three young people speaking more than one language is not a crisis.
It’s a strength. It’s Scotland 🏴
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EXCLUSIVE: A Glasgow refugee has urged Nigel Farage to stop playing 'dirty games' by picking on children who speak different languages
🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
December 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
EXCLUSIVE: A Glasgow refugee has urged Nigel Farage to stop playing 'dirty games' by picking on children who speak different languages
🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
🔗 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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This is a brilliant interview with young refugee Motaz Amer from Glasgow - responding to Reform attacks on bilingualism in the city.
"We all live in Scotland and call Scotland our home. We say no to the politics of division"
www.thenational.scot/news/2567361...
"We all live in Scotland and call Scotland our home. We say no to the politics of division"
www.thenational.scot/news/2567361...
I'm a bilingual refugee in Glasgow. Here's what I would say to Nigel Farage
A GLASGOW refugee has urged Nigel Farage to stop playing “dirty games” by picking on children who speak different languages.
www.thenational.scot
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This is a brilliant interview with young refugee Motaz Amer from Glasgow - responding to Reform attacks on bilingualism in the city.
"We all live in Scotland and call Scotland our home. We say no to the politics of division"
www.thenational.scot/news/2567361...
"We all live in Scotland and call Scotland our home. We say no to the politics of division"
www.thenational.scot/news/2567361...
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So much news about asylum seeker policy, but so rarely do we actually hear from people with actual experience of seeking asylum
Motaz Amer, 20, lives in Glasgow after fleeing Yemen. He says new Labour plans will do "nothing but harm"
www.thenational.scot/news/2562870...
Motaz Amer, 20, lives in Glasgow after fleeing Yemen. He says new Labour plans will do "nothing but harm"
www.thenational.scot/news/2562870...
Glasgow refugee says UK asylum reforms will do 'nothing but harm'
A REFUGEE who came to the UK from Yemen has torn into “appalling” plans to overhaul the asylum system, accusing ministers of “punishing”…
www.thenational.scot
November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
So much news about asylum seeker policy, but so rarely do we actually hear from people with actual experience of seeking asylum
Motaz Amer, 20, lives in Glasgow after fleeing Yemen. He says new Labour plans will do "nothing but harm"
www.thenational.scot/news/2562870...
Motaz Amer, 20, lives in Glasgow after fleeing Yemen. He says new Labour plans will do "nothing but harm"
www.thenational.scot/news/2562870...
The asylum system is changing in ways that put people escaping war at risk.
As someone who came here for safety, this matters to me deeply.
We can do better.
We need a system that protects people not punishes them.
Clip below from BBC iPlayer (Politics Live)
As someone who came here for safety, this matters to me deeply.
We can do better.
We need a system that protects people not punishes them.
Clip below from BBC iPlayer (Politics Live)
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The asylum system is changing in ways that put people escaping war at risk.
As someone who came here for safety, this matters to me deeply.
We can do better.
We need a system that protects people not punishes them.
Clip below from BBC iPlayer (Politics Live)
As someone who came here for safety, this matters to me deeply.
We can do better.
We need a system that protects people not punishes them.
Clip below from BBC iPlayer (Politics Live)
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Great to see The National giving a refugee perspective on the Labour govt proposals on asylum.
@motazamer.bsky.social on unjust and punitive attacks on those fleeing danger and seeking safety.
www.thenational.scot/news/2562870...
Clipping via @pressreader.bsky.social and Edinburgh Libraries
@motazamer.bsky.social on unjust and punitive attacks on those fleeing danger and seeking safety.
www.thenational.scot/news/2562870...
Clipping via @pressreader.bsky.social and Edinburgh Libraries
November 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Great to see The National giving a refugee perspective on the Labour govt proposals on asylum.
@motazamer.bsky.social on unjust and punitive attacks on those fleeing danger and seeking safety.
www.thenational.scot/news/2562870...
Clipping via @pressreader.bsky.social and Edinburgh Libraries
@motazamer.bsky.social on unjust and punitive attacks on those fleeing danger and seeking safety.
www.thenational.scot/news/2562870...
Clipping via @pressreader.bsky.social and Edinburgh Libraries
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“The truth, whether it's about genocide abroad or fascism at home, will not be suppressed.”
Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's acceptance speech after receiving the Integrity Award from the Arab Center where he made it loud and clear that he will not be ‘silenced’
zeteo.com/p/you-will-n...
Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's acceptance speech after receiving the Integrity Award from the Arab Center where he made it loud and clear that he will not be ‘silenced’
zeteo.com/p/you-will-n...
October 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“The truth, whether it's about genocide abroad or fascism at home, will not be suppressed.”
Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's acceptance speech after receiving the Integrity Award from the Arab Center where he made it loud and clear that he will not be ‘silenced’
zeteo.com/p/you-will-n...
Watch @mehdirhasan.bsky.social's acceptance speech after receiving the Integrity Award from the Arab Center where he made it loud and clear that he will not be ‘silenced’
zeteo.com/p/you-will-n...
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🔴BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview
The new Green leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted an interview on the flagship BBC show after being elected, or during his party conference
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
The new Green leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted an interview on the flagship BBC show after being elected, or during his party conference
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview
The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show
bylinetimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
🔴BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview
The new Green leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted an interview on the flagship BBC show after being elected, or during his party conference
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
The new Green leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted an interview on the flagship BBC show after being elected, or during his party conference
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...
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Larry Ellison:
—Second‑richest man on Earth
—Gave $16.6 million to Friends of the IDF
—Hosted Netanyahu on his private island
—Trump plan makes him co-own TikTok
—Son, David, just spent $150 million to buy The Free Press & make Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS
—Wants Warner Bros (CNN, HBO)
—Second‑richest man on Earth
—Gave $16.6 million to Friends of the IDF
—Hosted Netanyahu on his private island
—Trump plan makes him co-own TikTok
—Son, David, just spent $150 million to buy The Free Press & make Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS
—Wants Warner Bros (CNN, HBO)
October 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Larry Ellison:
—Second‑richest man on Earth
—Gave $16.6 million to Friends of the IDF
—Hosted Netanyahu on his private island
—Trump plan makes him co-own TikTok
—Son, David, just spent $150 million to buy The Free Press & make Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS
—Wants Warner Bros (CNN, HBO)
—Second‑richest man on Earth
—Gave $16.6 million to Friends of the IDF
—Hosted Netanyahu on his private island
—Trump plan makes him co-own TikTok
—Son, David, just spent $150 million to buy The Free Press & make Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS
—Wants Warner Bros (CNN, HBO)
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EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has been blasted for giving 'lengthy' coverage to a Reform UK press conference on immigration
🗣️'Our national broadcaster should not be unduly platforming Farage’s divisive politics, when no other party appears to receive the same'
🗣️'Our national broadcaster should not be unduly platforming Farage’s divisive politics, when no other party appears to receive the same'
BBC 'unduly platforming' Nigel Farage by streaming Reform UK press conference
THE BBC has been blasted for giving “lengthy” coverage to a Reform UK press conference on immigration.
www.thenational.scot
September 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has been blasted for giving 'lengthy' coverage to a Reform UK press conference on immigration
🗣️'Our national broadcaster should not be unduly platforming Farage’s divisive politics, when no other party appears to receive the same'
🗣️'Our national broadcaster should not be unduly platforming Farage’s divisive politics, when no other party appears to receive the same'
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NEW: Far-right thugs are creating a "culture of fear" in Falkirk, it has been warned, after they falsely accused an anti-racism activist of being a paedophile and set up outside his home.
Police were forced to intervene to protect the activist's safety
www.thenational.scot/news/2547591...
Police were forced to intervene to protect the activist's safety
www.thenational.scot/news/2547591...
Far-right thugs target Scottish activist's home after false paedophile allegations
FAR-RIGHT thugs falsely accused an anti-racism activist of being a paedophile and set up outside his home ....
www.thenational.scot
September 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
NEW: Far-right thugs are creating a "culture of fear" in Falkirk, it has been warned, after they falsely accused an anti-racism activist of being a paedophile and set up outside his home.
Police were forced to intervene to protect the activist's safety
www.thenational.scot/news/2547591...
Police were forced to intervene to protect the activist's safety
www.thenational.scot/news/2547591...
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This is the first article in our series telling positive stories of refugees in Scotland.
Meet Motaz Amer. His family fled war in Yemen when he was 9. 10 years later he is advising the Scottish Government, supporting its refugee integration strategy.
www.thenational.scot/news/2540848...
Meet Motaz Amer. His family fled war in Yemen when he was 9. 10 years later he is advising the Scottish Government, supporting its refugee integration strategy.
www.thenational.scot/news/2540848...
This inspiring 19-year-old refugee is already advising the Scottish Government
CALLING Motaz Amer a high achiever would be quite the understatement ...
www.thenational.scot
August 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This is the first article in our series telling positive stories of refugees in Scotland.
Meet Motaz Amer. His family fled war in Yemen when he was 9. 10 years later he is advising the Scottish Government, supporting its refugee integration strategy.
www.thenational.scot/news/2540848...
Meet Motaz Amer. His family fled war in Yemen when he was 9. 10 years later he is advising the Scottish Government, supporting its refugee integration strategy.
www.thenational.scot/news/2540848...
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🚨 Big news: We’ve awarded 22 grants through our Shaping the Future fund—supporting migrant-led leadership rooted in care, creativity + community. bit.ly/40kW5Tx
This is what long-term change looks like!
🌱 Shaping the Future, rooted in experience
#Migration #Leadership #ShapingTheFuture
This is what long-term change looks like!
🌱 Shaping the Future, rooted in experience
#Migration #Leadership #ShapingTheFuture
July 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
🚨 Big news: We’ve awarded 22 grants through our Shaping the Future fund—supporting migrant-led leadership rooted in care, creativity + community. bit.ly/40kW5Tx
This is what long-term change looks like!
🌱 Shaping the Future, rooted in experience
#Migration #Leadership #ShapingTheFuture
This is what long-term change looks like!
🌱 Shaping the Future, rooted in experience
#Migration #Leadership #ShapingTheFuture
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📣Want to find out more about the Government's citizenship ban and what we can do together to overturn it?
Join Together With Refugees and leading experts on Monday, 30th June (5-6 pm, online)
Sign up here:
addevent.com/event/Of2598...
Join Together With Refugees and leading experts on Monday, 30th June (5-6 pm, online)
Sign up here:
addevent.com/event/Of2598...
June 26, 2025 at 10:03 AM
📣Want to find out more about the Government's citizenship ban and what we can do together to overturn it?
Join Together With Refugees and leading experts on Monday, 30th June (5-6 pm, online)
Sign up here:
addevent.com/event/Of2598...
Join Together With Refugees and leading experts on Monday, 30th June (5-6 pm, online)
Sign up here:
addevent.com/event/Of2598...
Have your say: Are you a refugee or seeking asylum in the UK? We want to hear from YOU!
IMIX and I are doing a short, anonymous survey (5 mins) to understand how words in the media make people feel and how this affects mental health and life in the UK
IMIX and I are doing a short, anonymous survey (5 mins) to understand how words in the media make people feel and how this affects mental health and life in the UK
May 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Have your say: Are you a refugee or seeking asylum in the UK? We want to hear from YOU!
IMIX and I are doing a short, anonymous survey (5 mins) to understand how words in the media make people feel and how this affects mental health and life in the UK
IMIX and I are doing a short, anonymous survey (5 mins) to understand how words in the media make people feel and how this affects mental health and life in the UK
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We'd love to get more responses from people in Scotland with lived experience of forced displacement.
Please help by sharing this link with anyone who might like to contribute
🔗 forms.office.com/e/TLx26sH63L
Please help by sharing this link with anyone who might like to contribute
🔗 forms.office.com/e/TLx26sH63L
May 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
We'd love to get more responses from people in Scotland with lived experience of forced displacement.
Please help by sharing this link with anyone who might like to contribute
🔗 forms.office.com/e/TLx26sH63L
Please help by sharing this link with anyone who might like to contribute
🔗 forms.office.com/e/TLx26sH63L
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Responses can help drive change by supporting:
📌Advocacy – engaging policymakers and the media on ethical reporting
📌Media Reform – promoting fairer narratives
📌Community Impact – challenging stereotypes and amplifying voices
📌Advocacy – engaging policymakers and the media on ethical reporting
📌Media Reform – promoting fairer narratives
📌Community Impact – challenging stereotypes and amplifying voices
May 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Responses can help drive change by supporting:
📌Advocacy – engaging policymakers and the media on ethical reporting
📌Media Reform – promoting fairer narratives
📌Community Impact – challenging stereotypes and amplifying voices
📌Advocacy – engaging policymakers and the media on ethical reporting
📌Media Reform – promoting fairer narratives
📌Community Impact – challenging stereotypes and amplifying voices
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Help challenge harmful narratives on migration.
One of our volunteers, is conducting a short survey of people seeking sanctuary in the UK to understand:
📌How terminology affects the mental health and well-being of refugees and people seeking asylum
📌How the media portrays migrants
(1/2)
One of our volunteers, is conducting a short survey of people seeking sanctuary in the UK to understand:
📌How terminology affects the mental health and well-being of refugees and people seeking asylum
📌How the media portrays migrants
(1/2)
May 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Help challenge harmful narratives on migration.
One of our volunteers, is conducting a short survey of people seeking sanctuary in the UK to understand:
📌How terminology affects the mental health and well-being of refugees and people seeking asylum
📌How the media portrays migrants
(1/2)
One of our volunteers, is conducting a short survey of people seeking sanctuary in the UK to understand:
📌How terminology affects the mental health and well-being of refugees and people seeking asylum
📌How the media portrays migrants
(1/2)
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WATCH: following the publication of the Immigration White Paper, Rivka Shaw - Policy Officer at GMIAU - spoke on Novara Media and Talk TV Radio yesterday.
She captured our disappointment with the Government's senseless policy making and the harmful impact this will have on our communities.
She captured our disappointment with the Government's senseless policy making and the harmful impact this will have on our communities.
May 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
WATCH: following the publication of the Immigration White Paper, Rivka Shaw - Policy Officer at GMIAU - spoke on Novara Media and Talk TV Radio yesterday.
She captured our disappointment with the Government's senseless policy making and the harmful impact this will have on our communities.
She captured our disappointment with the Government's senseless policy making and the harmful impact this will have on our communities.
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As a reminder - Scotland’s integration strategy is multilingual, intercultural, rights-based, refugee-led, trauma-sensitive and restorative. It’s perfectly straightforward to ditch the xenophobia and see electoral gains as a result
www.gov.scot/publications...
www.gov.scot/publications...
New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy: 2024
A strategy supporting the integration of refugees, people seeking asylum and other forced migrants within Scotland’s communities. The strategy is led jointly by the Scottish Government, COSLA and Scot...
www.gov.scot
May 13, 2025 at 5:26 AM
As a reminder - Scotland’s integration strategy is multilingual, intercultural, rights-based, refugee-led, trauma-sensitive and restorative. It’s perfectly straightforward to ditch the xenophobia and see electoral gains as a result
www.gov.scot/publications...
www.gov.scot/publications...
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Exactly this - long, slow, hard, vital work of many New Scots; Old Scots and Middle-aged Scots but it’s a key reason and entirely evidence-based. And @sabirzazai.bsky.social & I should know.
www.thenational.scot/news/2513570...
pressreader.com/article/2814...
www.thenational.scot/news/2513570...
pressreader.com/article/2814...
Scotland dodged riots as refugees better integrated than England, charity boss says
SCOTLAND avoided far-right riots last summer because refugees are better integrated than in England, according to the boss of a top refugees’…
www.thenational.scot
May 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Exactly this - long, slow, hard, vital work of many New Scots; Old Scots and Middle-aged Scots but it’s a key reason and entirely evidence-based. And @sabirzazai.bsky.social & I should know.
www.thenational.scot/news/2513570...
pressreader.com/article/2814...
www.thenational.scot/news/2513570...
pressreader.com/article/2814...