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Report: The UK Government Has Left 89 Tamil Refugees Stranded on a Remote Island for Five Months

Jacob Goldberg

Exclusive: The British government claims the disputed Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia as an overseas territory. Yet it has failed to resettle 89 Tamil refugees who were shipwrecked there in October. Jacob Goldberg reports.

Analysis: The UK Border Regime Extends a Whole Lot Further Than France

Zoe Gardner

From military support at the Polish border to funding detention centres in Africa, the UK's draconian immigration policy goes far beyond its own borders, writes Zoe Gardner.

Analysis: The Navy Wants Nothing to Do With the Tories’ War on Migrants

Daniel Sohege

The Home Office’s plans to militarise the Channel are illegal - and the navy wants no part in them, writes Daniel Sohege.

Analysis: In Libya, Migrants Are Organising Against Europe’s Border Brutality

Report: Under ‘Extreme’ New Immigration Rules, Britain Can Deport Asylum Seekers to Any Country That Will Take Them

Rivkah Brown

Rule changes snuck in by the Home Office in December theoretically allow the department to send asylum applicants anywhere in the world. In practice, more people will be forced into inhumane and indefinite immigration detention. Rivkah Brown reports.

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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: The UK is Rushing to Deport Asylum Seekers Before Brexit, New Data Shows

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.

Analysis: The Road to Moria: How Greece’s Refugee Disaster Became Business As Usual

Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou

The fires that destroyed a refugee camp on the island of Lesbos and displaced 13,000 people have prompted international concern about the treatment of migrants at Europe's borders. Yet in Greece, the horrors of Moria are filtered through a terrifying banality which makes them seem like business as usual, explains Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou.

Report: Italy’s Migrants Are Being Attacked From Left and Right. They Aren’t Going to Take It Lying Down

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.

Report: ‘We’d Prefer to Die in the UK Than Go Back’: The Refugees on Hunger Strike Against Deportation

Laith Saad

22 refugees at notorious immigration removal centre Brook House have gone on hunger strike in protest of their imminent deportations. Laith Saad reports.

Novara Live: Barbed Wire Britain

Michael Walker is joined by Minnie Rahman from Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants to discuss the human cost of the trumped up ‘migrant crisis.’Plus, UK cronyism the evictions ban coming to an end and record support for Scottish independence.

Ash Wednesday: Ash Sarkar Debunks Anti-Migrant Myths

While establishment media jumps at the chance to go on refugee safari in the Channel, Ash Sarkar debunks the myths behind anti-migrant sentiment.

Novara Live: Right Wing Migrant Freakout

Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani debunk the latest right-wing freakout about migration. Plus, Government corruption on PPE, submissions close for the Labour Leaks inquiry and why we all need Joe Biden to stop talking.

‘It’s more difficult than ever’: A Volunteer on the Situation in Calais Under Coronavirus

Shona Walne

Working for one of the few organisations still operating on the ground with the homeless migrant population in Calais, Shona Walne describes how, during the pandemic, the situation is worse than ever.

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Report: The UK Government Has Left 89 Tamil Refugees Stranded on a Remote Island for Five Months

Jacob Goldberg

Analysis: The UK Border Regime Extends a Whole Lot Further Than France

Zoe Gardner

Analysis: The Navy Wants Nothing to Do With the Tories’ War on Migrants

Daniel Sohege

Analysis: In Libya, Migrants Are Organising Against Europe’s Border Brutality

Lucia Pradella

Planet B: Asad Rehman on the Making of the Climate Refugee

Planet B: Planet B: Everything Must Change – Migration

Novara Live: MPs Debate Humiliation in Afghanistan

Novara FM: After Storming Heaven

Report: Under ‘Extreme’ New Immigration Rules, Britain Can Deport Asylum Seekers to Any Country That Will Take Them

Rivkah Brown

Report: Unable to Reunite With Their Families Post-Brexit, Child Refugees Face Untold Dangers

Lauren Crosby Medlicott

Report: The UK is Rushing to Deport Asylum Seekers Before Brexit, New Data Shows

Rivkah Brown

Analysis: The Road to Moria: How Greece’s Refugee Disaster Became Business As Usual

Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou

Report: Italy’s Migrants Are Being Attacked From Left and Right. They Aren’t Going to Take It Lying Down

Alice Figes

Report: ‘We’d Prefer to Die in the UK Than Go Back’: The Refugees on Hunger Strike Against Deportation

Laith Saad

Novara Live: Barbed Wire Britain

Ash Wednesday: Ash Sarkar Debunks Anti-Migrant Myths

Novara Live: Right Wing Migrant Freakout

‘It’s more difficult than ever’: A Volunteer on the Situation in Calais Under Coronavirus

Shona Walne

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Report: The UK Government Has Left 89 Tamil Refugees Stranded on a Remote Island for Five Months

Jacob Goldberg

Analysis: The UK Border Regime Extends a Whole Lot Further Than France

Zoe Gardner

Analysis: The Navy Wants Nothing to Do With the Tories’ War on Migrants

Daniel Sohege

Analysis: In Libya, Migrants Are Organising Against Europe’s Border Brutality

Lucia Pradella

Planet B: Asad Rehman on the Making of the Climate Refugee

Planet B: Planet B: Everything Must Change – Migration

Novara Live: MPs Debate Humiliation in Afghanistan

Novara FM: After Storming Heaven

Report: Under ‘Extreme’ New Immigration Rules, Britain Can Deport Asylum Seekers to Any Country That Will Take Them

Rivkah Brown

Report: Unable to Reunite With Their Families Post-Brexit, Child Refugees Face Untold Dangers

Lauren Crosby Medlicott

Report: The UK is Rushing to Deport Asylum Seekers Before Brexit, New Data Shows

Rivkah Brown

Analysis: The Road to Moria: How Greece’s Refugee Disaster Became Business As Usual

Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou

Report: Italy’s Migrants Are Being Attacked From Left and Right. They Aren’t Going to Take It Lying Down

Alice Figes

Report: ‘We’d Prefer to Die in the UK Than Go Back’: The Refugees on Hunger Strike Against Deportation

Laith Saad

Novara Live: Barbed Wire Britain

Ash Wednesday: Ash Sarkar Debunks Anti-Migrant Myths

Novara Live: Right Wing Migrant Freakout

‘It’s more difficult than ever’: A Volunteer on the Situation in Calais Under Coronavirus

Shona Walne

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