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Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi

reporting & writing

  • EU Borders 2011
    • Travel Fellowship
      • What I’m blogging about….
      • The world’s migration problem
      • Greece is better than Senegal
      • “We are here and we are human”
      • “We won’t eat till they look at our claim”
      • “Greece is becoming a big concentration camp”
      • “Our job is to prevent them coming here” – EU border police
      • Nobody leaves home if things are good
      • Italy’s Libyan solution
    • A better life? The European Union’s other problem
      • “Since I put my leg in Europe I suffer”
      • “The police make us feel like animals”
      • A humanitarian crisis in the forests of northern France
      • Ordinary Europeans welcome migrants and asylum seekers
      • Dying to get to Europe
      • Sweet prison: migrants in Spanish limbo
      • Sweet prison: migrants in Spanish limbo II
      • A refugee’s Libyan nightmare
      • Paradise Lost
      • Palermo’s ghosts
      • In search of the European dream
      • Refugees driven to despair in Calais
  • EU Borders 2012-2015
    • Europe rejects refugees
    • Letter from Europe’s border
    • What does Britishness look like from the outside?
    • The scandals we choose to ignore
    • ‘Journalists take pictures and nothing changes’
    • Town of stories
    • Telling Stories
  • UK Borders
    • The Man in Room Six
    • Set Them Free
    • Tales from the UK Border Agency
    • Who are the “illegals”?
    • The scandals we choose to ignore
    • Let’s really talk about immigration
    • The Absurdity of Mr Grayling’s Residence Test
    • What does Britishness look like from the outside?
  • About

Tag: JSA

Down the rabbit hole

November 12, 2014November 12, 2014 Categories: child poverty · Single parents · Welfare reformTags: JSA · Single Parents · Women & economics · women's rightsLeave a comment

The government’s punitive measures have made it harder to get out of poverty. And austerity is making it worse.

Austerity bites

November 21, 2013November 21, 2013 Categories: Single parents · Welfare reformTags: austerity · benefits · child poverty · cuts · jobcentre plus · JSA · lone parents · welfare reform · womenLeave a comment

Political rhetoric and featherweight policy solutions disguise the fact that single parents are among the biggest losers of the recession. The Women’s Budget Group found that single parents will lose 15.1 per cent of their disposable income to austerity policies.

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