Immigration
— Refugees can help fill labour shortages and skills gaps, while also boosting diversity and competitiveness.
Immigration
— Refugees can help fill labour shortages and skills gaps, while also boosting diversity and competitiveness.
Immigration
— The UK government is briefing that a remote patch of land in the South Atlantic, Ascension Island, could become a processing hub for people crossing the Channel in small boats.
Immigration
— Amidst the ongoing debate about asylum seekers being housed on barges, Tory MP Lee Anderson’s populist views have stirred controversy.
UK Immigration Policy
— Semi-carceral facilities accommodating irregular migrants are designed to be hostile spaces that expose people to substandard conditions and keep them on the move, detached from wider society.
Immigration
— The UK government wants to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, but the court says it’s illegal. The deal is part of a wider policy to deter irregular migration and make deals with other countries. Similar schemes have been tried before in history.
UK Immigration Policy
— The government has claimed that irregular migrants are falsely claiming to be victims of modern slavery to avoid being deported, but there is little evidence to support this.
UK Politics
— The Government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda has been ruled unlawful by the Court of Appeal, which found that Rwanda’s asylum system is not fair and effective. Relief for refugees who faced being deported to a country where they could face persecution.
Asylum Seekers
— Westminster council leader questioned the Home Office over asylum seekers’ accommodation as 40 of them are left in the streets of London for two nights running.
UK Politics
— Housing and migrants charities blast ‘shameful’ plan to relax licensing rules around HMOs for people fleeing danger.
UK Politics
— The illegal migration bill is performative politics that allows the Conservatives to blame opponents ahead of a key election.
COMMENT
— Rishi Sunak is trying to please both moderate and hard-lined rebels within his party regarding UK migration policies. The UK needs ‘safe and legal’ routes for both economic migrants and persecuted people so they don’t have to risk taking boats. It’s time for humane migration policies in the UK.
Refugee Rights
— The UK government is introducing a bill to deter small boat migration and remove those who arrive illegally. It violates international law, overriding domestic laws, the Refugee Convention and Human Rights Law.
Immigration
— Many asylum applications are rejected on grounds that dismiss the dire situations in applicants’ countries of origin.
Immigration
— The new deal with France provides clear and compelling evidence that the way the UK chose to leave the EU actually meant a reduction in the ability to control irregular migration.
Analysis
— Recent scenes at Victoria Station and Manston immigration centre are one way the government drives anti-migration sentiment. 12 years of Tory governance has pushed narratives that dehumanise vulnerable people, and turned the border into a spectacle.
COMMENT
— It’s not May, Johnson, Truss, or Sunak that is the problem, it’s the entire detestable lot of them.
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