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MV member writes blog for Huffington Post

MV member writes blog for Huffington Post

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 Migrant Voice - MV member writes blog for Huffington Post

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."

Read the full article here.

This article was pitched and published as part of Migrant Voice's Meet a Migrant project.

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