A recognised expert on immigration, asylum and international human rights law, Sangeetha is often asked to provide comment and expert insight on television, radio and in the print media. The list below provides a flavour of her media experience.
Media
Media
A recognised expert on immigration, asylum and international human rights law, Sangeetha is often asked to provide comment and expert insight on television, radio and in the print media. The list below provides a flavour of her media experience.
Keynote Address, Forum for Expatriate Management‘s Online Summit 2020
Sangeetha gave the keynote address to kick off FEM’s five-day online summit. She first paints a picture of the global displacement crisis as it stands today and the unnecessary human rights abuses that it has created. She continues to explain that Displaced Talent Mobility could offer a pragmatic solution to businesses, restore human rights and offer a pathway out of displacement.
16 November 2020
Watch online here.
Radio Interview with Rachel Johnson, LBC
Priti Patel, the UK’s Home Secretary, proposes an entire overhaul of the British asylum system at the Conservative Party’s virtual annual conference. Sangeetha, in discussion with Rachel Johnson, examines whether the proposals are indeed ‘firm and fair’, or belie a total misunderstanding of basic concepts of asylum law. Sangeetha questions whether this is yet another attack this Government is waging on the rule of law.
4 October 2020
Radio Discussion with John Nicholson at Talk Radio
Sangeetha discusses the Home Secretary’s recent proposal to offshore asylum processing to ‘remote’ islands such as Ascension, St Helena and the Shetlands. Sangeetha questions why the Home Office is proposing logistically impossible, wildly expensive border policies that we know from the Australian model do not work as a deterrent. Sangeetha finds that at a time of unprecedented national recession, it seems all the more incomprehensible for the Home Office be embarking on billionaire’s follies for political point-scoring.
4 October 2020
Radio Interview with Shelagh Fogarty, LBC
Sangeetha discusses the Home Office’s proposal to offshore asylum processing to the South Atlantic. Clearly inspired by the Australian model, Sangeetha examines the logistics, legality and legitimacy of a potential UK model, explaining why ‘out of sight, out of mind’ policies are not only inhumane, but unlawful.
30 September 2020
Radio Interview with LBC News [extract]
Sangeetha speaks out against the Home Office’s recent infographic. She explains why this is an attack on the rule of law which is the cornerstone of our society and is there to protect all of us from an abuse of powers. Sangeetha is concerned that the Home Office, a public body, does not want to be challenged when it acts unlawfully. Is the Home Office saying it is above the law?
27th August 2020
Radio Interview with Jim Davies on BBC Radio London
Speaking to Jim Davies, Sangeetha explains why the UK Home Office’s recent infographic is both inaccurate and inflammatory and amounts to an attack on the integrity of the legal profession. Sangeetha questions why public funds are being used to produce propaganda that celebrates the Home Office’s unlawful removals.
27th August 2020
Radio Interview with BBC Radio Stoke
Presenter Ajmal Hussain and Sangeetha discuss the UK government’s political hyperbole around asylum seekers and why this amounts to dangerous anti-migrant propaganda.
23rd August 2020
Radio Interview with BBC Radio West Midlands
Sangeetha explains to Presenter Gagan Grewal why the death of the death of a young Sudanese child in the Channel was entirely avoidable and why the Home Office’s branding of boat arrivals as a ‘crisis’ is nothing more than political hyperbole.
23rd August 2020
Radio Interview with BBC Radio Sheffield
Speaking to presenter Gul Nawaz, Sangeetha explains why the UK’s barbaric border policy, stoked by the ‘hostile environment’ is causing the death of asylum seekers with the legal right to claim asylum. She continues to highlight why this anti-migrant sentiment has implications of British people of colour.
23rd August 2020
Radio Interview with BBC Radio Derby
Sangeetha spoke to Satvinder Rana about how the UK’s border policy can be easily changed to prevent asylum seekers from taking fatal journeys across the world’s busiest waterway.
23rd August 2020
Radio Interview with BBC Radio Essex
Following the death of a Sudanese boy in the Channel, Sangeetha dispels myths surrounding the so-called ”illegality’ of asylum seekers’ entry into the UK.
20th August 2020
Radio Discussion on LBC Radio with presenter Shelagh Fogarty
Sangeetha appeared on a panel with Lord Alf Dubs to discuss how to prevent channel crossings by boat into the UK in a lawful and humane way that maintains our legal obligations
18th August 2020
Radio Interview with Times Radio
Sangeetha explains why the arrival and ‘management’ of unaccompanied asylum seeking children is not a problem of county council finance, but down to chaotic and illogical border policy. The solution is simple, to resuscitate tried and tested legal pathways to claim asylum.
18th August 2020
Radio Discussion on LBC Radio with presenter Nick Ferrari
Sangeetha urged that a dispassionate and objective perspective is taken when considering channel crossing. Sangeetha dispelled myths surrounding asylum seekers and highlighted that their journeys of refuge and hardship do not end at the UK border.
11th August 2020
TEDxLondon – Conversations Beyond Borders
Sangeetha joined Maryam Pasha, Director of TEDx London and Jude Habib, Director of Sound Delivery for a rich discussion on the human rights implications of the new Coronavirus Bill in the UK and the impact anti-Covid measures are having on vulnerable communities. The crucial take away is that Covid-19 knows no borders. The only real border is between humanity and the viral world.
27 March 2020
Watch full panel discussion and Q&A online here.
Television interview with CGTN Europe
Sangeetha was interviewed by CGTN Europe to demystify issues surrounding migration and the Greek islands. She explains what the Greek island policy is, why this has administratively marooned tens of thousands of asylum seekers and refugees for months on end an she casts a light on this systematic dispossession of the most recognised refugees in Athens.
17 October 2019
Watch full interview here.