Tanja Bueltmann
Professor University of Strathclyde | migration & diaspora history | history of collective action | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | she•her | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
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- You are the company you keep — but those who choose to be in your company matter too.
- Good morning everyone! Just a quick note from one of those immigrant strangers here to report that I’m doing incalculable damage to the country by using environmentally friendly public transport to travel to work.
- My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration
- I'm done.
- You are a "citizen of nowhere", they said. A "queue-jumper", they said. Now I am a "squalid chapter", they say. A risk as I might make this an "island of strangers", they say. I am "pulling the country apart", they say.
- Apart from this being wrong, apart from it fuelling Reform support, this framing is so deeply insulting to immigrants already here. We *chose* to come here to give our skills to the UK (for which UK paid nothing), to make our contributions etc here. I am done being sh*t on by every Govt.
- One of the most detrimental immigration policies one can implement is to make settlement harder to achieve. So of course Labour are planning to do exactly that.
- Immigration and the UK — the main thing really is this: UK governments have, for ~ the last two decades, pursued anti-immigration policies. You tell me one positive outcome from that approach. There isn’t one. Not a single one in my view. There is, however, a very long list of harms caused.🧵
- I genuinely don’t really know what else we can say about Labour and immigration. Their approach could not be more misjudged and wrong than it is: this will literally push even more voters towards Reform and, meanwhile, the care sector will implode.* www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
