Media Archive

The purpose of this archive is to monitor media portrayals of immigration and asylum by local and national press during the Public Images / Local Perceptions research project.

Challenging the Media gives suggestions on how to make your voice heard by the Newspaper and TV News Editors.

Links to two recent feature films set in and around Margate are at the bottom of this page.

BBC News Online

Blunkett to fight asylum ruling 19.02.03

Refugees: in their own words Refugee Week
Radio Kent's Simon Evans met refugees who have found asylum in Kent and spoke to them about their experiences

Refugees: Parviez's story
Transcript of an interview with a man who has made an application for asylum and is living and working in Margate


LOCAL PRESS CUTTINGS

Operation Clean Up - Thanet Times 14.01.03
A Cliftonville man recons the council's campaign to crack down on landlords who own eyesores is a farce.

Thanet Gazette 21.04.00
Would you know how to identify a refugee?
Asylum Seekers in Thanet - the reality and the myths - Part 1

Thanet Gazette 28.04.00
How much do asylum-seekers really get, who sends them, and why Thanet?
Seperating the myths from the truth - Part 2

Thanet Gazette 05.05.00
I know we will rise to the challenge
How a councillor welcomes diversity - Asylum Seekers - Part 3

Thanet Gazette 12.05.00
Asylum Fury Outcry over move to cage 400 refugees at Manston

Thanet Gazette 19.05.00
Asylum centre plans to be fast-tracked?

Thanet Gazette 16.06.00
Good and bad in all society - the reality and the myths - Part 9

Thanet Gazette 21.06.00
She heard voiced, the sort of voices she was afraid of - Part 10

NATIONAL PRESS CUTTINGS
are stored in the PILC Media Archive on the Public Images / Local Connections Home Page.


Two films recently shot in Margate:

Last Resort
This film is set primarily at a British immigration facility, where hundreds of people wait for several months for their chance at getting out. It's only saved the label of "concentration camp" by the fact that it's a high-rise apartment building; it's a vertical camp, not horizontal. The irony of the building is that two of the few places that the residents can go to without fear of being arrested are an amusement park and a cybersex business that feeds off the woes of desperate immigrant women.

Last Orders
It's a long life, so you need life-long friends. Last Orders is a funny and moving film about four old friends (Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, David Hemmings and Tom Courtenay) and, most of all, the man, Jack Dodds (Michael Caine), whose 'last orders' have set them on a journey.

This Page was last updated: Thursday, February 20, 2003 at 3:49:47 PM
This page was originally posted: 31/10/02; 2:44:08 pm.
Copyright 2004 Thanet Refugee Access