The proposed English language requirement is simply a dogwhistle based on muddled logic, says writer and academic Maya Goodfellow
“Let’s pretend we were inventing the world from scratch today and you decided you were going to have borders,” said Benjamin, a migrants’ rights activist, to me a few years ago in a cafe in London. “On what basis would you make the decision about who gets to move and who doesn’t get to move through borders? Surely you wouldn’t make them in the way the world is constituted today?”
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