Small Boat: this slim, devastating novel about a real migrant shipwreck reminds us of the cruelty of indifference
The International Booker Prize nominee follows a French coastguard operator haunted by the deaths she did not prevent.
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Revealed: asylum seeker children face welfare lottery on arrival in Britain
How FOI requests revealed the massive burden on two local authorities, and how to end the damaging effects on children.
The legal aid sector is collapsing and millions more may soon be without access to justice – new data
Numbers obtained through a freedom of information request reveal the dire state of the legal aid sector in England and Wales.
To end domestic servitude, first fix immigration policy
Details are still emerging in the case of three women who claim to have been held as slaves for three decades in a suburban house in London. The Metropolitan police have stated that a 69-year-old Malaysian…
Revealed: legal advice for asylum seekers disappearing due to legal aid cuts
It is becoming harder and harder to access legal aid for immigration cases.
New migrant processing centres in EU must avoid inhumanity of ‘hotspots’ in Greece and Italy
Newly proposed ‘controlled centres’ in the EU must not breach migrants’ human rights.
Alice in the asylum: Wonderland and the real mad tea parties of the Victorians
Madness allows us to challenge the stereotypes of the rational world.
Asylum seekers the latest in a long line of tabloid ‘folk devils’
Reports of the decision made by some Swiss towns to ban asylum seekers from public spaces are depressingly familiar here in the UK. So too were the recent comments from Roman Staub, mayor of the town of…
UK to overhaul asylum policy – will the new measures work?
People who have been recognised as needing humanitarian protection will be under constant review.
New EU migration pact driven by political compromise, not humanitarianism
The pact is largely characterised by the continuation of older ideas, despite the change in tone.
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