Opinion: We Went to Manston Asylum Centre – This Is a Politically Manufactured Crisis
by Joseph Maggs & Nadia Hasan
The scandal surrounding inhumane conditions at the Kent immigration facility is years in the making.
Tag: hostile environment
Feature: Couriers Stunt Dalston’s Gentrification. The Police and Council Want Them Gone
by Rivkah Brown
Saturday night’s immigration raid in Dalston, north London is part of a years-long effort to cleanse the area of its brown and Black couriers. Rivkah Brown reports.
Opinion: Britain Has Never Been Welcoming to Refugees
by Daniel Sohege
From Russia's war with Ukraine to the second world war, the nostalgic myth of Britain being welcoming to refugees is exactly that; a myth. Daniel Sohege explains.
Report: How We Won: The Activists Who Put a Stop to TUI’s Deportation Flights
by Sophie K Rosa
After just over a year of organising, a group of activists successfully ended airline TUI’s involvement in Home Office deportation flights. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Analysis: The Hostile Environment Is Putting Everyone at Greater Risk From Covid
by Ella Weldon
The hostile environment isn’t just endangering migrants during the pandemic, it’s endangering us all, writes Ella Weldon.
Opinion: The Tories Are Abandoning Migrant Women to Domestic Abuse
by Rebekah Pierre
The Domestic Abuse Act, passed in April 2021, was supposedly a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to protect women – just not the ones who need it most, writes former social worker Rebekah Pierre.
Analysis: With the New Nationality Bill, the Border is Breathing Down Our Necks
by Arianne Shahvisi
The Tories’ Nationality and Borders Bill passed on Wednesday. Arianne Shahvisi reflects on how many Black and minority ethnic UK citizens are increasingly being given second-class status.
Analysis: The Hostile Environment is Making Migrants Vulnerable to HIV
by James Greig
Until the government ends the hostile environment, which deters migrants from accessing vital healthcare, its plan to end HIV transmission by 2030 is a pipedream. James Greig reports.
Opinion: In Keir Starmer’s Anti-Racist Universe, Palestinians Don’t Count
by Barnaby Raine
The Labour leader’s anti-Palestinian racism is classic colonialism with a contemporary twist, argues Barnaby Raine.
Report: How We Won: The Mother Who Stopped Her Son’s Deportation
by Mark Montegriffo
A mother, with the help of the public, activists, journalists, celebrities and MPs, fought the Home Office to successfully stop the deportation of her autistic son Osime Brown. Mark Montegriffo reports.
Report: A Deportation Flight Just Left for Vietnam. Why Was It So Hard to Stop?
by Rivkah Brown
Despite the valiant efforts of activists, the Home Office flight went ahead as planned on Wednesday afternoon. Rivkah Brown looks at why it couldn’t be stopped.
Opinion: This Year’s England Squad Actually Gives a Shit
by Jessy Parker Humphreys
There's a lot to celebrate about the England team, but their Englishness has nothing to do with it, writes Jessy Parker Humphreys. These are the most politically engaged players the country has ever seen.
Opinion: Priti Patel Isn’t Shipping Refugees to Rwanda Any Time Soon
by Nadia Hasan
The home secretary’s latest scheme to scare off asylum seekers? Send them 6,500 miles away. It isn’t going to happen - but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be worried.
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: Migrants Are Scared to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine – and the Hostile Environment Is to Blame
by Sophie K Rosa
Despite the government's assurances that anyone, regardless of their settlement status, can receive the coronavirus vaccine, many migrants are still afraid to do so. Sophie K Rosa looks at how the hostile environment has created a culture of fear around healthcare.
The Stansted 15 Have Won – What Can We Learn From Their Four-Year Legal Battle?
by Ali Tamlit, Helen Brewer, Laura Clayson and Nick Sigsworth
Last Friday, the so-called Stansted 15, a group of activists found guilty of terror-related offences after stopping a deportation charter flight, won their appeal to have their convictions overturned. Four of the members reflect on the last four years of legal proceedings: what happened, what went wrong and what comes next.
Report: Unable to Reunite With Their Families Post-Brexit, Child Refugees Face Untold Dangers
by 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.
Opinion: The Home Office Doesn’t Care Who It Deports – the Jamaica Flight Proved This
by Nadia Whittome
Activists and lawyers should not have had to intervene this week to stop the Tories deporting people with a legal right to be in the UK, writes Nadia Whittome MP. The Jamaica deportation flight shows that for the Home Office, if you're black, poor and have a foreign passport, that's enough to fast-track you out.