"Migrants are always used as scapegoats for political failings" Interview with Zoe Gardner

Monday, July 29, 2024

Humans have always moved. Long before we started planting grains in the fertile crescent, we moved around the globe in search of food, shelter and other humans for trade and collaboration. If you're moving now without dollar in your pocket, your demonised, shunned and your humanity questioned, just for trying to find a better life. The climate crisis is going to have millions on the move. How do we bring solidarity and shared understanding to our fellow man?

This week on the show Lucy and Ads are joined by Zoe Gardner. Zoe is a migration and asylum policy specialist, researcher, advocate and writer. We discuss the current hell that migrants go through travelling to and through Europe, how Britain leaving the European Union ramped up the crossings by small boats, the potential danger of Robert Jenrick becoming next leader of the Tory party and what a human asylum system would look like.

Links

Gaia  Vince: Nomad Century: How to survive the climate upheaval

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/444202/nomad-century-by-vince-gaia/9780141997681

Shout Outs

AVID: the Association for Visitors to Immigrant Detainees

https://www.aviddetention.org.uk/

Manchester Mustard tree

https://mustardtree.org.uk/

And a shout out to the french left for keeping the far right at bay in the recent elections! hold on!