Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s budget announcement was filled with statements of hope to ‘rebuild the economy’ including immigration policy to bring in ‘the brightest and best’. Investment in securing the safety and accommodation...
This comes as calls to close the borders, in a bid to stop the spread of the virus, disproportionately impacts migrants and those who have been impacted by immigration systems. The £1,750 hotel quarantine price also threatens to discriminate against...
Unsurprisingly, but tragically, a recent report found high numbers of Syrian refugees in Middle Eastern countries with symptoms of PTSD. Fleeing the violence of a war zone to seek asylum doesn’t mean trauma gets left behind, even thousands of...
Yesterday The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) published a report regarding the detrimental effects of the No Recourse to Public Funds policy on migrants during the pandemic. The report outlines the disadvantages migrants face and...
Approximately 30 people seeking asylum left behind at Napier barracks are on hunger strike, it’s being reported. This comes as 50 residents are left at the Military of Defence site, after a swathe of Home Office removals to hotels in the...
The past year has seen a significant increase in the number of migrants trying to get to the UK on boats, with very few other options open. In 2020 8,438 people crossed the English Channel in small boats. The trend has been continuing over the first...
For as long as humans have created it, art has not only served to reflect the world around us, it has also engaged with and challenged social issues. Artists frequently use their medium to interact with the very systems that we live under, urging us...
Brexit visa rules now limit access to the vast professional skill base available in the EU. One of the UK industries expected to be negatively impacted is financial technology or fintech. Plans for a new government visa scheme aimed at fintech...
Following the start of an inspection into the controversial use of two disused army camps as housing for asylum seekers in the UK by immigration watchdogs in mid-February, the charity Positive Action In Housing (PAIH) has compiled an unremittingly...
On 25th February, Liberty, the UK’s largest civil liberties organisation, released its Protect Everyone Bill – an alternative to the UK government’s Coronavirus Act which has received scathing criticism since its inception in March...