The pervasive fear surrounding COVID-19, stemming not only from the potential of contracting it, but from the countless economic and social fallouts, is exacerbating the already existing tendency of some to scapegoat refugees and migrants in an effort to avoid facing up to the failings of the UK government. In...
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Zoë Miller is a graduate in Human Geography and Politics & International Relations from Durham University, currently undertaking a research internship with Manushya Foundation, an Asia regional non-governmental organisation based in Bangkok that promotes community empowerment to advance human rights and social justice. Zoë was born in Thailand but grew up in Southeast London.
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It was Tuesday 2nd June, ironically, International Sex Workers’ Day. But there were no sex workers there. For nearly three months, the streets of Patpong, Bangkok’s oldest red-light district, were silent and deserted. Two men sporting Covid-masks sit distanced at a streetside board game as a single hunched figure walks...