Lisa Matthews is coordinator of Right to Remain. She has previously worked in the areas of asylum advice, refugee integration and asylum/immigration legal casework in the UK and was a refugee psycho-social worker at Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance (AMERA), Egypt.
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Published in: 50.50On the edge of a nation, sitting on the border
Life in UK’s indefinite immigration detention regime evokes the 'barbed wire disease' experienced by 'enemy aliens'...
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Published in: 50.50500 Eritreans
"We need justice, we need freedom”. Their voices were raised in unison, echoing off the striking architecture of...
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Published in: 50.50Young Afghans in the UK: deportations in the dead of night to a war-zone
Each year around 400 children forced by war to leave their families and homes in Afghanistan seek sanctuary in the...