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Budweiser ad pays homage to founders’ immigrant roots…
November 11, 2019Budweiser founder Adolphus Busch’s immigrated to America from Germany. During the 2017 Super Bowl, in the midst of Donald Trump’s chaotic policies banning muslims and… Read more
UK clothing brand Jigsaw ads feature messages of immigration inclusion
November 11, 2019Jigsaw, a UK based fashion clothier, featured a campaign citing the ways immigrants help the UK fashion industry stay competitive. With Brexit looming, the company… Read more
United Colors of Benetton Ads Feature Photos of Migrants
November 11, 2019Always seeking to stir up conversation, the United Colors of Benetton featured an ad of migrants seeking help in crossing the Mediterranean from Africa to… Read more
Activists Target UK Government Treatment of Migrants With Viral Ad Campaign
September 16, 2019Hey @ukhomeoffice đ. Nice new ad campaign you have today, plastered all over London Underground. Honesty is the best policy. đ #EndtheHostileEnvironment#WorldRefugeeDay2019#RefugeeWeek pic.twitter.com/I65Bc180GI â Our… Read more
âA Child Is A Childâ – Unicef brings children to the fore in new migrant campaign from FCB and Rankin
September 17, 2017FCB Inferno has become the go-to UK agency for what we might call âcauseâ advertising and now itâs launching âA Child Is A Childâ for… Read more
‘It symbolises a lack of integration’ Fury as anti-migration ad condemns burka in poster
September 17, 2017Posters have appeared in railway stations around the country which feature a woman in a burka with the slogan: âUncontrolled naturalisation? No to facilitated naturalisationâ.… Read more
Norway And Belgium Become Latest Nations To Plead With Migrants To Stay At Home
September 17, 2017Norway has taken out a front-page advertisement in a major Afghan newspaper warning would-be migrants that potential asylum seekers âwill be returned by forceâ, while the… Read more
Norway launches anti-refugee advertising campaign
February 28, 2016Norwayâs immigration authorities have launched an advertising campaign in print and social media to deter refugees from seeking asylum in the country, following the controversial… Read more
Denmark advert in Lebanon newspapers warns off refugees
February 28, 2016Denmark has placed advertisements in four Lebanese newspapers announcing tighter regulations and cuts in provisions for asylum seekers. The advertisement published on Monday said that… Read more
Australia Shutting a Door on Asylum
September 20, 2015Â In July of 2013, 100 asylum seekers burned their shelters down in an Australian refugee processing center on Nauru Island. Â The incident drew attention to… Read more
The U.K.’s “Go Home” Campaign
September 20, 2015In 2013 an official probe was launched into claims that the Home Office “Go Home or Face Arrest” advertisement campaign targeting illegal immigrants is… Read more
Can Kenya Convince Somali Refugees To Head Home?
September 20, 2015Advertising in connection with migration and refugees is not the first thing that comes to mind, but the connection goes back to the beginnings of… Read more
People smugglers using Facebook to lure migrants into âItaly tripsâ
September 20, 2015It reads like the website of a travel agency. âA trip to Italy next week in a big fast tourist yacht,â says the Facebook post beneath… Read more
Tapping Migration Wealth to Fund Development
September 20, 2015The global money-transfer industry makes huge profits by charging a fee to transfer money to another country as well as off of exchange rates. For… Read more
Aggressive Anti-Immigrant Messaging for Refugees Headed to Christmas Island
September 20, 2015There is a wide-ranging effort by Australia to discourage refugees from going to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. On the shores of Indonesia, billboard… Read more
New âGoing Homeâ Immigration Posters Shameful
September 20, 2015The language of advertising to recruit, and more recently, to de-recruit, immigrants provides a mostly unexamined aspect of the rationales provided for why people move.… Read more