Report: Helping White Refugees Gets You £350. Helping Black or Brown Ones Gets You Prison Time
Tiara Ataii
If those crossing the Mediterranean were white, would we criminalise their rescuers? Tiara Ataii doubts it.
Tag: asylum
Novara Live: Priti Patel’s Harsh New Asylum Rules
Priti Patel has announced harsh new plans to restrict people’s right to asylum in Britain. We speak to Maya Goodfellow about the Tory war on refugees.
Report: Unable to Reunite With Their Families Post-Brexit, Child Refugees Face Untold Dangers
Lauren Crosby Medlicott
Brexit will make it far harder for asylum seekers to be reunited with their families. Unaccompanied children risk falling out of the asylum system and into the hands of smugglers and traffickers, reports Lauren Crosby Medlicott.
Report: Asylum Seekers Isolated in Hotels Are Facing Far-Right Violence
Matthew Ponsford
The Home Office has moved thousands of asylum seekers from detention centres to hotels to ‘enable social distancing’ during the pandemic. Now, these new arrivals are facing not only deportation, but the threat of far-right violence. Matthew Ponsford reports.
Opinion: Paranoid Hysteria is a Near-Constant Feature of Modern Conservatism
David Wearing
The right’s shrill panic about an ‘invasion’ of migrants reached new heights this week over a handful of refugees in barely seaworthy dinghies. In order to understand the forces we’re dealing with, we need to examine this hysteria itself, argues David Wearing.
Novara FM: Hostile Environment: Maya Goodfellow on Race and Migration
James Butler is joined by Maya Goodfellow to discuss the history and politics of migration in the UK.
The Global Refugee Crisis is at Our Shores, and We Need to Take It Seriously
Adam Bates
As Sajid Javid calls migrants crossing the Channel a "major incident", it’s easy for the left to want to dismiss his reaction as hyperbolic. But with thousands risking death to reach Europe each year this clearly is a crisis-level situation, and we must be making bold arguments for how the global response should be reconfigured.
Boats, Borders, Brutality: Australia’s Refugee Policy
Scott Wark
Last week’s Muslim ban provoked outrage across the globe. But with the mandatory detention of asylum seekers in offshore camps and forced ‘boat turnbacks’, Australia’s border regime is arguably even worse than Trump’s.
Long Read: What Can We Learn from the Existence and Eviction of the Calais Jungle?
Brush&Bow
The closure of Europe’s largest unregulated refugee camp generated images of desolation and desperation, bolstering a popular narrative of the Jungle as only a problem, and the eviction a solution. But actually longterm volunteers say the camp offered residents a type of support and a sense of community that state asylum systems could learn from.
Calais Migrants’ Eviction Crisis: 4 FAQs Answered
Ruth Ciara and Daniel Martin
In June we published a piece on the Calais migrant camp, exploring the issues faced by the 'sans-papiers'. Since then, police and private security have tear-gassed the camp and arrested people while a local fascist group has been gaining support. The most recent announcement is that Calais mayor Natacha Bouchart intends to have the site bulldozed, displacing thousands. Here are the things you need to know.