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‘Please get me moved from here!’ Pregnant woman in G4S asylum housing

Refugee and asylum seeking women are shockingly over-represented in the records of UK maternal deaths. Yet pregnant women and infants continue to be placed in dangerous housing.

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Rear window of Sharon’s G4S asylum home (all images by John Grayson)

One showery September morning I stood outside a large red brick house, just off the town centre in Doncaster, South Yorkshire.

I’d been told that the hostel was being used by the security company G4S as accommodation for pregnant women asylum seekers, and lone mothers with babies. One of the growing number of lone mother and refugee children hostels in the UK’s asylum market.