Launch of the first edition of the new digital The New Londoners magazine

The Migrants Resource Centre announces the launch of its first digital edition of The New Londoners magazine during Refugee Week.

Ros Lucas, Executive Director of MRC, reports “It gives me great pleasure to welcome readers to the first digital edition of The New Londoners magazine, which builds on the success of the paper version which was distributed annually from 2007 during Refugee week”.

You can read it at:

http://tinyurl.com/thenewlondoners

The magazine, now produced quarterly, aims to bring together London communities, old and new, and to redress the negative images often portrayed in the media of  migrants.  This first edition focuses on myth-busting about the impact of migration in London and highlights just how much society is enriched by it and why migration is necessary for the economic well-being of the capital city.  It also tells the stories of Yemane, a celebrity journalist, who was forced to flee Eritrea and Anas, who faced increasing persecution in Baghdad following the Iraq war.  The magazine is produced with the input of many volunteers and users from the organisation’s Migrants and Refugees Media Action Group.