Asylum seekers could be housed on Bibby Stockholm barge as soon as Monday despite safety concerns

Government hopes to get 500 male migrants on the barge in Dorset by end of this week, minister reveals

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When #Lodgers Were “#Evil” - JSTOR Daily

In #cities across the #UnitedStates, #politicians and #media figures often cite “the #homeless” as a threatening symbol of #social #breakdown. In the early twentieth century, write #historian David T. Beito and #political #scientist Linda Royster Beito, something similar happened with an economically #marginal #urban type, in the form of what was then known as the “#lodger evil.”

https://daily.jstor.org/when-lodgers-were-evil/

When Lodgers Were “Evil” - JSTOR Daily

A wave of immigration from eastern and southern Europe transformed urban landscapes, creating crowded tenements that stoked humanitarian concerns.

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