MV member writes blog for Huffington Post
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On 2 April, Huffington Post published an opinion piece by Migrant Voice member in Glasgow, Cryton Chikoko. He wrote about the tragic deaths of four NHS doctors from Covid-19, all of whom were migrants.
"All four were of a minority race," he wrote. "There's been some media coverage of their deaths, which is only right, but there is little mention of their migrant backgrounds. I don' thave a problem with that: people's backgrounds, race or colour shouldn't factor into the coverage. All people are equal. What troubles me, though, is that ethnicity and immigration status always take centre stage when a migrant commits a crime or does something wrong.
"We're never allowed to see migrants as heroes, only as villains."
This article was pitched and published as part of Migrant Voice's Meet a Migrant project.