Opinion: Priti Patel Isn’t Shipping Refugees to Rwanda Any Time Soon
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.
Tag: hostile environment
Report: Clearsprings: The Worst Asylum Housing Provider You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
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
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?
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
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
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.
Report: Stop the Flight: Jamaica Deportation Shows Tories ‘Doubling Down’ on Hostile Environment, Activists Say
Sophie K Rosa
Just a week after a report found the government’s hostile environment policies broke equalities law and contributed to injustices faced by the Windrush generation, the Home Office plans to deport up to 50 men to Jamaica on Wednesday. Sophie K Rosa reports as activists race to stop the flight.
Opinion: Why Scrapping Hostile Environment Policies Would Benefit Kids, Parents and Childcare Workers
Miranda Hall and Veronica Deutsch
This year many families have scrambled for childcare solutions - often in the form of informal childcare. Against a renewed push for regularisation from some parts of the sector, Miranda Hall and Veronica Deutsch argue our sights ought to be set on the anti-migrant policies which force people to work invisibly.
Report: ‘It’s Been Too Long’: The Windrush Compensation Scheme is Setting Victims Up to Fail
Sophie K Rosa
Confronted with a failing compensation scheme offering hugely delayed and "insultingly" low payments, Windrush victims argue they have no choice but to fight for just renumeration. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Radical Compassion? Why the West Midlands Needs to Know About Liam Byrne’s Record on Immigration
Charles Garry
Liam Byrne's campaign to become Labour's mayoral candidate in the West Midlands pledges 'radical compassion', but his record on immigration and asylum suggests otherwise, writes Charles Garry.
Long Read: How Hostile Environment Confusion Is Continuing to Damage Asylum Seekers’ Health
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.
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.
British Solidarity With Rojava Must Start at Home, With an End to the Hostile Environment
Fanny Malinen
European states won't challenge Erdogan's attack on Rojava because of the power Turkey has as the EU's south-eastern border wall. To show solidarity with the Kurdish-led democracy revolution, we need to challenge the hostile environment at home, argues Fanny Malinen.
Two Years On, NHS Hospitals Are Still Demanding Some Patients Pay Upfront for Life Saving Treatment
Izzi Whelan
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.
“We Refuse to Be Intimidated by Our University”: the King’s College Activists Fighting Back Against Racial Profiling
King's students
Earlier this month, King's College London was accused of banning a number of student activists from campus for posing a “security risk” during a visit from the Queen and Duchess of Cambridge. Writing anonymously, some of the students in question argue that what happened to them is part of a far bigger picture.
A Day in the Life of a Marxist Immigration Barrister
Marxist 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.
Under the UK’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy, Shamima Begum Was Never Presumed Innocent
A. Haziz-Ginsberg
On Tuesday Sajid Javid announced Shamima Begum - a schoolgirl who left the UK to join the Islamic State in 2015 - would have her British citizenship revoked. Begum's case shows how the UK's counter-terrorism strategy is grounded in the preemptive denial of innocence and belonging, argues A. Haziz-Ginsberg.
15 Things the Stansted 15 Did Right
Sam Walton
On 6 February, the Stansted 15 - a group of activists who stopped a deportation flight - were sentenced after being found guilty of terror-related offences. In the face of a judge who wanted to find them guilty from the moment they stepped into court, avoiding imprisonment was a real achievement. Here are 15 things the Stansted 15 did right.