[noborders-brum] "Something remarkable" says the Guardian

[hub13 at riseup.net]

"The arrival of asylum seekers in Glasgow's poorest areas has fostered a
new community spirit

Robina Qureshi
Friday April 13, 2007
The Guardian

On the doorstep of Yoker, a deprived area to the west of Glasgow, is the
biggest private regeneration programme in Europe. Along the banks of the
Clyde, luxury apartments and penthouses are being sold for upwards of a
quarter of a million pounds. Shipbuilding was big here until the 1980s.
Then long-term unemployment hit, and never left. From the windows of
Yoker's Plean Street high-rises you can see the north bank of the Clyde
glitter in the mid-morning sun. But across the street in Kingsway, another
deprived area, the residences are not so plush. A lot of the flats there
lay empty and were considered "hard to let" - until the asylum seekers
were moved in.

Last week, an Algerian woman and her baby were subjected to a sickening
assault on a cycle path in Yoker."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2056252,00.html


The gist of the article is that the non-refugee community, once they saw
the brutality of dawn raids, banded together to defend the victims.