(Spotted on the 206 bus, south Brent, 31st April 2006)
Another poster in London targeted at migrants. However unlike the first one I saw this one is not targeting legal working migrants but asylum seekers and irregular migrants (for example those trafficked into the UK).
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is an intergovernmental organisation working on migration issues around the world. In the UK, their main mission is assisting in the voluntary return of migrants from the UK. To this end the London office of IOM have recently been working with the Home Office to provide financial and educational assistance to some returnees who voluntarily agree to return home. At time of writing levels of assistance are as high as £3000 in training, business seed money and cash. As well as asylum seekers IOM London estimates there to be 430,000 irregular migrants in the UK.
This poster and another I have recently seen which were targeted exclusively at migrants appeared in and around Brent, one of the capital's most multicultural boroughs. Less than 50% of its population is white (National Statistics) and over 120 languages are spoken within its borders (Brent Council).
If you would like to know more, please follow the link to IOM London.
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