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AGM Migrant Lives Matter: Health Struggles Experienced During the Pandemic

13th AGM migrant workers, charity workers, experts and campaigners talk on the complex health struggles experienced during the pandemic. This webinar will consider the ways Covid-19 has affected migrant lives, focusing on health in relation to a range of issues that include: migrant workers as keyworkers in the high-risk frontline of the caring field, yet defined as low-paid ‘unskilled’ worker; nurses and care workers subject to Windrush scandal and Hostile Environment; worker rights, race relations and the Hostile Environment; NHS, ethics, austerity, xenophobia; medical and mental health of Covid-19 survivors; Art and Disabilty in the time of Covid 19 These and other issues will be considered through a range of perspectives, which will include migrant workers, charity workers, experts, academics, campaigners, activists, artists, poets, and more. Migrant Workers and Kent Refugee Help (Raga Gibreel, Kate Adams, and Bahriye Kemal), 'Our Lived Experiences of Working, Windrush Scandal, Hostile Environment, and Testing Covid-19 Positive' Arianne Shahvisi, 'Decolonising the NHS' Don Flynn, 'Migrant Rights, Race Relations and the Hostile Environment' Aliya Yule, Patients Not Passports: End The Hostile Environment in the NHS" About Speakers: Kate Adams is caseworker for Kent Refugee Help and an artist who obtained a BA in Fine Art in 1976. Her painting, A Lighted Window was one of 80 artworks out of 900 selected to be displayed in the Environments Exhibition, Piano Nobile Gallery, London, organized by Outside In November 2019. She works for Kent Refugee Help, a Whitstable-based charity assisting detained migrants who face deportation and has coordinated many events to raise awareness and help migrant artists progress their work. She dreams of a world where everyone can fulfill their potential and no one is excluded because of where they were born. Don Flynn has been active in the field of migrants’ rights, both in the UK, Europe and in global networks, for many years. He is steering group member of the Permanent People’s Tribunal on Violations of the Rights of Migrants, and a trustee and volunteer of several migrant organisations. He has written extensively on the wider political context of migrant struggles, looking particularly at social and liberal democracy and populist reaction. Raga Gibreel is caseworker for Kent Refugee Help and founder/director of Green Kordofan. She is a graduate of Sudan University for Science and Technology and the University of Reading. Her work as a reporter for the Citizen newspaper in South Sudan helped inform her knowledge of the plight of the region’s people and her passion to make a difference. She now works tirelessly to further Green Kordofan’s and Kent Refugee Help's aims and achievements. Bahriye Kemal is an academic, writer/poet, and activist. She has published on space/place, displacement, borders, conflict, and solidarity/activist movements as related to postcolonial east Meditereanean and Britain. She is author or editor of books and journals, including Writing Cyprus Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space (Routledge, 2020), Nicosia Beyond: Barriers: Voices from a Divided City (Saqi, 2019), and Visa Stories: Experiences between Law and Migration (2013). She is a lecturer in Contemporary and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent. Arianne Shahvisi is a Kurdish-British writer and academic philosopher. She is Senior Lecturer in Ethics at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School, where she conducts research across a range of topics in applied philosophy, with current projects focussed on reproductive justice, migration and borders, and global health ethics. Arianne has published a range of articles, including recent articles: ‘Austerity or Xenophobia? The Causes and Costs of the “Hostile Environment” in the NHS’; ‘Why it is unethical to charge migrant women for pregnancy care in the National Health Service’; Health worker migration and migrant healthcare: Seeking cosmopolitanism in the NHS’. Arianne has written commentary for Prospect, the London Review of Books, New Statesman, The Conversation, and Jacobin, has featured on BBC Radio and Channel 4 News, advised on policy around abortion provision and women's health, and was a judge for the 2019 PEN Science Writing Prize. Aliya Yule is the Healthcare for All Migrant Organiser at Migrants Organise, a platform for migrants and refugees to work together for dignity and justice. She works on the Patients Not Passports campaign, organising with migrants, healthcare workers and community groups to end the hostile environment in the NHS.