Immigration news
The UK was a world leader in resettling the most at-risk refugees. In 2020, unlike other nations, there has been no such welcome as zero crossed our borders since March. And time is running out to save the scheme that is the last bastion of hope for...
The sound of another weekly clap echoes down hospital corridors where migrant NHS workers battle subsequent pandemic waves, struggling with the lack of security of their status under the hostile environment and its extension to those from the EU as...
Beyond Brexit, remote working is the ultimate challenge to the Vote Leave 2016 campaign slogan, taken on by our current UK government to “take back control of their money, their borders, their laws, and their waters” by leaving the EU. Control of...
Last November, the Ethiopian government launched a military attack against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). The escalating conflict has killed hundreds and displaced thousands from their homes into neighbouring Sudan. The situation is...
For nearly three weeks, the fate of over 2,000 migrants living outdoors in freezing conditions in northern Bosnia has verged on escalating into a major humanitarian crisis, with numerous groups of threadbare asylum seekers seen shivering in the...
After losing out in the 2020 US presidential election, President Donald Trump has fought tooth and nail to cling on to power. The attack on US Capitol on Wednesday by hundreds of his supporters was the culmination of Trump and his allies’...
A landmark ruling has seen a person granted refugee status on the basis of their non-binary gender identity for the first time. Equality activists have welcomed the judgement and hope it will make it easier for non-binary people to find a safe home...
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...