Opinion: The Culture War Doesn’t Exist
by Amardeep Singh Dhillon
Why, asks Amardeep Singh Dhillon, do we reduce trans and minority rights to questions of culture as if their impacts weren't grimly material?
Tag: asylum seekers
Report: The Organiser of an Anti-Migrant Protest to Protect Women Is a Woman Beater
by Simon Childs
Philip Milo Gregory spread disinformation about a rape case to promote a protest against an asylum seeker hotel.
Feature: London Asylum Seekers Are Refusing to Be Flung Around the Country by Profit-Seeking Private Companies
by Charlotte England
Exclusive: A second group of asylum seekers is resisting removal out of London, to isolated hotels threatened by the far right.
Feature: Asylum Seekers in South London Are Resisting Removal to a Bedfordshire Hotel Targeted by the Far Right
by Charlotte England
A group of asylum seekers has been resisting eviction from a south London hotel for the last three weeks. But layers of outsourcing mean they don't even know who's trying to move them. Charlotte England reports.
Downstream: Immigration: Labour Have Always Been Just As Bad As Tories. Ash Meets Maya Goodfellow
Ash meets Dr. Maya Goodfellow to talk about New Labour's inhumane immigration policies, the problem with the term 'Economic Migrant' and how people, no matter what we're told, will end up falling in love across supposed cultural divides.
Analysis: In Libya, Migrants Are Organising Against Europe’s Border Brutality
by Lucia Pradella
Libyan authorities backed by the EU and UK are imprisoning and killing African migrants in their thousands. The victims are organising a fightback, writes Lucia Pradella.
Opinion: Priti Patel Is Right About One Thing: Our Asylum System Is Fundamentally Broken
by Zoe Gardner
Without safe ways to come to the UK, migrants will keep drowning in the Channel, writes Zoe Gardner.
Report: Clearsprings: The Worst Asylum Housing Provider You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
by Sophie K Rosa
You’ve never heard of them, but asylum seekers have. Clearsprings is one of the many companies to which the government outsources asylum accommodation, and widely known to be the worst.
Report: Deportation Flights to the EU Have Increased Threefold, As the UK Rushes to Return Asylum Seekers Before Brexit
by Rivkah Brown
Exclusive: The UK has chartered as many deportation flights to the EU so far in 2020 as in the past three years combined, in a bid to accelerate the removal of asylum seekers before Brexit. Rivkah Brown reports.
Report: The UK is Rushing to Deport Asylum Seekers Before Brexit, New Data Shows
by Rivkah Brown
Exclusive: The UK is rushing to return asylum seekers to the EU before Brexit makes it harder to do so. Data obtained by Novara Media shows the UK made up to 154% more transfer requests to Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Ireland and Denmark this year, an uptick lawyers say has resulted in a catalogue of harmful and unlawful failings. Rivkah Brown reports.
Report: Asylum Seekers Isolated in Hotels Are Facing Far-Right Violence
by 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.
Report: How We Won: The Activists and Lawyers Who Stopped Asylum Seekers Being Evicted in Glasgow
by Lauren Gilmour
A coalition of activists and lawyers took on the Tories' anti-immigrant agenda in Glasgow, using direct action and legal challenges to stop a government-contracted company making hundreds of vulnerable people street homeless. Lauren Gilmour reports.
Report: Italy’s Migrants Are Being Attacked From Left and Right. They Aren’t Going to Take It Lying Down
by Alice Figes
As regional elections approach later this month, and with a second wave of coronavirus expected, the Italian far right and centre are engaged in a race to the bottom on immigration. Alice Figes looks at the latest chapter in Italy's long history of xenophobia.
Long Read: How Hostile Environment Confusion Is Continuing to Damage Asylum Seekers’ Health
by Will Neal
Despite the formal suspension of data-sharing practices between NHS Digital and the Home Office in the wake of the Windrush scandal, the policy has left behind a legacy which continues to create confusion among medical practitioners while putting up barriers for people fleeing danger.
Asylum Seeker Evictions Will Cause ‘Crisis on the Streets of Glasgow’, Charities Warn
by Charlotte England and an anonymous case worker
A housing provider has announced it will resume a controversial policy to evict hundreds of asylum seekers in Glasgow, in a move charities say will leave scores of vulnerable people street homeless. Serco, which until recently held the government contract to house asylum seekers in the Scottish city, first announced plans to evict people denied […]
State Neglect and Police Violence: The Forgotten Refugee Crisis in Calais and Dunkirk
by Abby Meadows, northern France
In northern France hundreds of refugees are being neglected by the state, abused by the police and exploited by smugglers. With large charities refusing to get involved and journalists staying away, grassroots groups are still trying to plug the aid gap. But volunteers say there is only so much they can do without adequate resources – and when the only real solutions are political.
The Global Refugee Crisis is at Our Shores, and We Need to Take It Seriously
by 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.
Ghettoes of Europe: The Private Landlords Making Billions From Refugee Shelters in Berlin
by Hsiao-Hung Pai
Refugees live in roofless, partitioned rooms without privacy or basic facilities, in isolation on the edge of the city. Despite high rates of depression and suicide, the authorities keep cramming more people in, benefiting only the private companies and individuals who run these mass shelters for profit.