Alarming numbers of parents are being separated from their children indefinitely in the UK for the purposes of immigration control. It is difficult to imagine any other situation where children could have such scant attention paid to their welfare.
The economic crisis of 2008 had a major impact on the economies of European countries. Now many countries remain on the verge of collapse with high unemployment and poverty. Young people, often highly educated, are among the victims of this situation.
Pollsters during the last General Election campaign said immigration was the single issue aside from the economy that most concerned UK voters. My experience of Romanian immigrants in the UK is more personal and first hand than most – I was raised by one.
With the border of our EU neighbours also open to immigration from Romania, and the British economy continuing to flat-line, it is unlikely that the UK will face a Romanian invasion on any major scale.
Last Stop, Tel Aviv is the story of the 60,000 asylum seekers living in Israel. Escaping dictatorships and indefinite military conscription, Africans flee their homelands in the hope of a better life, but arrive to find that they are criminalized, vilified, and unrecognised in the Israeli state.