Asylum seekers and the ‘big society’

By Spencer Woodcock

Daily, I witness tabloid-reviled refugees giving their time to help the more vulnerable. What a pity it never makes the news.

Asylum seekers, economic migrants: the debates snarl ever on, not always illuminated by the tabloids. But though the “big society” is big news, there is a side to the concept I witness daily, but have never seen reported: migrants can represent a very valuable source of volunteers.

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