Media - 2004
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Victims of the sands and the Snakeheads
7 February 2004
Reporting the circumstances of the tragedy
Full story at www.guardian.co.uk
"I'm illegal, so what can I do?"
9 February 2004
Ms Li, from Tienjin, China, tells her story
Full story at www.guardian.co.uk
UK Chinese say Morecambe Bay deaths caused by government immigration policy
10 February 2004
Min Quan, a Chinese civil rights group and a branch of The Monitoring Group, says that the British immigration policy is to blame for the tragedy
Full story at www.minquan.co.uk
Racism blamed for cockle deaths
14 February 2004
One of the men arrested in connection with the deaths of the Chinese cocklers in Morecambe Bay said yesterday that British racism and bureaucratic failings had caused the disaster.
Full story at news.independent.co.uk
Fearful isolation, little hope, and even less cash
14 February 2004
The life of the cockle pickers following the tragedy
Full story at www.guardian.co.uk
Heard the one about the idiot Tory who can't stop telling her racist jokes? MP's sick jibe stuns diners
26 February 2004
Blundering Ann Winterton was looking a tired, sick joke last night after wading in to yet another racist jibe.
Full story at www.mirror.co.uk
Life and death of a cockle picker
20 February 2004
The story of Yu Hui.
Full story at www.guardian.co.uk
Tories disown cockler joke MP
26 February 2004
It seems right-wing Tory MP Ann Winterton is not someone who learns from her mistakes. Two years ago, she was dismissed from her post as shadow rural affairs minister after she told a racist joke about Pakistanis at a rugby club dinner. This week, she was sacked from the party by a furious Tory leader, Michael Howard, when she made a tasteless joke about the Chinese cockle-picker tragedy.
Inside the grim world of the gangmasters
27 March, 2004
An undercover story documenting the life and work of Chinese workers in the informal economy in Britain
Full Story at www.guardian.co.uk
Fear drives Chinese back to cockle beds
3 May 2004
Why have the Chinese workers returned to the cockle beds a few months after the tragedy?
Full story at politics.guardian.co.uk
Disaster dead return home
11 November 2004
The bodies of the 21 Chinese people who drowned in Morecambe Bay in February have been flown home.
Full story at www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk
From Dover to Morecambe Bay: tragedy and government immigration policy
7 July 2004
Comment from IRR (Institute of Race Relations), an independent race and refugee news network
Are Chinese Lives Cheaper?
8 July 2004
This was one of the questions asked at a meeting held in London on 7 July 2004, to discuss the Morecambe Bay tragedy in which 23 Chinese cockle-pickers drowned after being caught in bad weather and high tides.
Morecambe survivor wants change
7 July 2004
A survivor of the Morecambe Bay tragedy is calling for a change in immigration rules to prevent the deaths of more foreign workers.
The underbelly of globalisation
7 February 2004
The Chinese workers who died were victims of cowboy capitalism
Full story at www.guarddian.co.uk
Who’s protecting the migrant workers?
February 2004
Comment from Hazards Magazine