In 2015, the United Nations vowed to end modern slavery by 2030. The coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns could prove a heavy setback, but only in exposing the weaknesses and hostility at the heart of immigration policy. Modern slavery is a wide...
In 2020, over 8400 migrants crossed the English Channel to seek refuge in the UK, four times more than the previous year. Overall there was actually a fall in the total number of people seeking asylum in the country but the issue arguably received...
Jewish Ethiopian immigrants flee humanitarian crisis, as over 2,000 people are set to arrive in Israel from the war-torn country by the end of January. In a bid to flee war, poverty, and Covid-19, thousands of Ethiopian immigrants from the Falash...
Project in time for Refugee Week 2020 reveals their stories Rarely-seen film footage and photographs have been put online for the first time, revealing the stories of child refugees from Basque, Spain, who fled to the UK during the Spanish Civil War...
Olivia Long of Help Refugees writes about the living conditions in refugee camps across Europe, where adults, families and lone children are forced to sleep in freezing temperatures, without access to basic essentials and facilities. She also...
As part of ImmiNews’ ‘Refugee Diaries‘, a series which centres and celebrates voices of current and former refugees and their relatives, Jan Karpinski here reflects on his father’s passage to the UK as a Polish WWII soldier in 1940 to...