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Long Read: Detained Migrants Are Workers. They Belong in the Trade Union Movement

With detained migrants encouraged to work for slave wages, rather than treating them as victims devoid of agency, trade unions must instead bring them into the movement, write Isaac Ricca-Richardson and Franck Magennis.

Opinion: Third-Sector Workers’ Grievances Point to the Shortcomings of the Charity Sector

St Mungo’s homelessness workers have voted to strike over employment conditions, while raising the charity’s history of working with the Home Office. Benjamin Morgan argues more third-sector workers need to make the link between their own struggles at work and charities' failures to stand up for the rights of vulnerable people.

Two Years On, NHS Hospitals Are Still Demanding Some Patients Pay Upfront for Life Saving Treatment

Hostile environment policies have been widely condemned as racist and brutal, with the upfront charging of migrants - including people with cancer and pregnant women - at NHS hospitals considered one of the gravest injustices of all. Yet two years after the policy was introduced, and despite the Windrush scandal, vulnerable people are still dying after having been denied life saving treatment, writes medical student Izzi Whelan.

A Day in the Life of a Marxist Immigration Barrister

An anonymous immigration barrister describes a typical day at work, the uphill battle of dismantling the British imperial border and why theirs is a job that really shouldn’t exist.

New Face at the Home Office, But No New Answers to Knife Crime

Sajid Javid is now at the helm of the government’s ‘serious violence strategy’, launched in March to address the UK's knife crime epidemic. But just because he’s the first BME home secretary it doesn’t mean he’ll implement the multi-agency reforms needed to tackle the problem, argues Huda Elmi.

Outsourcing Incarceration: Privitisation in Britain’s Immigration Detention Estate

The private companies that run Britain's detention centres have repeatedly failed to protect the rights, dignity and safety of the people they imprison. But the Home Office has created a system in which it is incredibly difficult to hold them to account.

Long Read: “Target/Tackle”: A Hostile Environment for the Homeless

Three of the UK’s biggest homelessness charities are collaborating with Home Office immigration enforcement teams on the detention and deportation of European rough sleepers.

Filling Up Seats: Charter Flights and the UK’s Unlawful Deportation Tactics

One man has been deported into destitution in Nigeria without receiving an answer to his asylum claim, and was given only one day to challenge his removal. Here, he speaks about the experience of being locked up and forced onto a flight under the cover of darkness.