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• The arrival of the Bibby Stockholm barge at Portland Port, in Dorset, on July 18 2023, marks a new low in the UK government’s hostile immigration environment.
• The vessel is set to accommodate over 500 asylum seekers.
• My research shows that facilities built to house irregular migrants in Europe and beyond create a temporary infrastructure designed to be hostile.

Precarious space

• Journalists Lizzie Dearden and Martha McHardy have shown this means the asylum seekers housed there – for up to nine months – will have “less living space than an average parking bay”.
• This stands in contravention of international standards of a minimum 4.5m² of covered living space per person in cold climates, where more time is spent indoors.
• Locals are concerned already overstretched services in Portland, including GP practices, will not be able to cope with further pressure.
• The difficulty of escaping a vessel at sea could turn it into a death trap.

Performative hostility

• In 2015, Berlin officials began temporarily housing refugees in the former Tempelhof airport, a noisy, alienating industrial space, lacking in privacy and disconnected from the city.
• French authorities, meanwhile, opened the Centre Humanitaire Paris-Nord in Paris in 2016, temporary migrant housing in a disused train depot.
• Nicknamed la Bulle (the bubble) for its bulbous inflatable covering, this facility was noisy and claustrophobic, lacking in basic comforts.
• Like the barge in Portland Port, these facilities, placed in industrial sites, sit uncomfortably between hospitality and hostility.
• Rather than deterring asylum seekers, the Bibby Stockholm is potentially creating another hazard to them and to their hosting communities.

• Members of the international community who register as IDEX customers can now trade Moria Token (MOR) on the IDEX international exchange.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210316006023/en/
  Gold Mine-Sponsored Digital Asset, Moria Token, Launches on the IDEX International Exchange.
• Moria is the worlds only royalty paying token based on production revenue by a mining company operating a gold mine in the United States.
• We are excited that IDEX is listing Moria Token on its international exchange, says Deborah King, CEO of GS Mining Company.

• Western Union , a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, and the Western Union Foundation have announced the Foundations pledge of USD 250K in relief to support the immediate and long term recovery needs of refugees including the people displaced from Greeces Moria Camp.
• Western Union and our Foundation are unrelenting in our support of migrants, refugees and forcibly displaced people around the globe.
• Our hearts are with the people of the Moria camp, said Hikmet Ersek, Western Union President and CEO.
• Since its inception, the Western Union Foundation has granted USD 10.5M globally to support displaced persons, including immigrants, refugees, asylees, conflict-affected, and migrants.