UK Refguees’ Red Door Problem

Check out this photo from Reuters. What do you see?

According to refugees in Middlesbrough (in North East England), that red door gives notice to the community that asylum seekers live there. Why? Because the subcontractor that provides housing to asylum seekers on behalf of the government, Jomast, happened to paint nearly all of the doors to their units red. To be more precise, 155 out of 168 Jomast houses in Middlesbrough have a red door.

Migrants say this has left them vulnerable to all sorts of abuse.

Jomast says there “was never any policy to discriminate against asylum seekers,” that the painting decision was “ill-judged,” and they’ve committed to changing the doors soon.

-KitJ