MV Migrant Ambassador speaks to MyLondon about hate crimes against Asian Londoners
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On 1 April, MyLondon published an article about the increase in racist attacks against Asian communities living in the capital. Our Migrant Ambassador, Mariko Hayashi, director of Southeast and East Asian centre, said that Asian communities had been hit hard and she fears that the real figures of hate crimes against Asian people in London are higher than those actually recorded.
“We work with a lot of migrant community members [and] it’s been so challenging for them to report their cases, whether discrimination, racism or harassment at work, because of their status and the fear they have being migrants in the UK," Hayashi told MyLondon.
“We know people never report them.
"We try to educate [people] about third party reporting and reporting anonymously but the environment of fear does exist within our community toward authorities.”