Sarah Campbell

Sarah Campbell is a Research and Policy Manager at Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID). At BID, she has published research on issues including the detention of children and the separation of families by immigration detention. She was previously a Policy Officer at The Fawcett Society, and a Research Associate at King’s College London.

Yarl’s Wood: legal black hole

Women in Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre have become increasingly desperate as repeated rounds of legal aid cuts introduced by the UK Government have made it more difficult for them to access justice.

By Sarah Campbell

/ 9 Mar 2015

UK immigration control: children in extreme distress

Alarming numbers of parents are being separated from their children indefinitely in the UK for the purposes of immigration control. It is difficult to imagine any other situation where children could have such scant attention paid to their welfare, says Sarah Campbell.

By Sarah Campbell

/ 6 May 2013

"She was probably glad of the attention": tackling rape in the UK

The debate about how and why rape happens goes to the heart of cultural gender and power dynamics, writes Sarah Campbell Globally, the prosecution of rape is given a low

By Sarah Campbell

/ 28 Nov 2007