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Published in: Home: NewsHome Office paying asylum seekers £1 an hour to clean detention centres
Exclusive: Detainees worked a million hours on £1 wages in past five years, sparking claims of government exploitation
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Published in: Home: Feature‘It left a scar on me’: Locked up in the UK’s women-only immigration centre
A year after Derwentside detention centre opened, one woman reveals the impact that being held there had on her
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Published in: Home: FeatureAt the UK’s detention centres, border violence and outsourcing collide
OPINION: We need unity between the detained, the outsourced and the underpaid – unions must take on the fight
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Published in: Home: OpinionSunak and Braverman have learnt nothing from asylum seekers’ deaths
OPINION: Britain and Australia have legacies of colonial violence. Of course those seeking their asylum are dying
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Published in: Home: NewsMoment police officer punches protester in face during Peckham raid
Exclusive: Footage provides new evidence of police brutalising protesters at an immigration raid in south London
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Published in: Home: FeatureThe ‘hostile environment’ is 10. It blighted these women’s lives
A decade after Theresa May declared a ‘hostile environment’, many immigrants to the UK are stuck in legal limbo
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy feminists should support the struggle for prison and police abolition
Prisons and police don’t protect women – particularly women of colour – from male violence. In fact they expose them...
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Published in: Shine A Light“Fit to fly?” Woman awaiting spinal surgery is fit to be deported, controversial doctor tells UK Home Office
Judges have severely criticised medical assessments by Dr John W. Keen and his company NowMedical, but UK...
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Published in: Shine A LightEXCLUSIVE: Arrests of suspected undocumented migrants soar in Sheffield, the UK’s first City of Sanctuary
Since Theresa May launched the “Hostile Environment” South Yorkshire Police have arrested hundreds of Sheffielders...
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Published in: Shine A LightCarlington Spencer: another death in UK immigration detention
Last year six people died in or shortly after transfer from immigration lock-up. Carlington Spencer, held at Morton...
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Published in: Shine A LightHome Office fails Albanian child refugees
One Saturday at a London drop-in for children fleeing crime gangs and blood feuds.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe ‘Windrush generation’ and ‘illegal immigrants’ are both our kin
As well as newfound sympathy for the Windrush generation, we should remember that ‘illegal immigrants’ are our kin,...
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Published in: Shine A LightAmber Rudd resigns, the anti-migrant machine works on
Hardline policies have failed in their stated aim of reducing immigration. Is their true purpose to impress...
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Published in: Shine A LightTheresa May’s hostile immigration regime destroys another family
British migration policy forces working class families to choose between country and the people they love.
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Published in: Shine A LightHow lawyers fail migrants in the UK
Access to justice has diminished almost to vanishing point, leaving asylum seekers and irregular migrants at risk of...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe UK outsourcing experiment: playing with vulnerable lives
A review of Alan White’s Who Really Runs Britain? — the private companies taking control of benefits, prisons,...
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Published in: Shine A Light‘How do we get out if there’s a fire?’ In Yorkshire, G4S tenants live in fear
Security company G4S housed six families with babies and toddlers in a fire-trap hostel in Halifax.
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Published in: Shine A LightHigh Court blasts ‘outrageous’ assault by Tascor staff on torture survivor
Highly unusual punitive damages awarded to Felix Wamala, who was subjected to intensely painful, dangerous restraint...
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Published in: Shine A LightFit to run a prison? G4S dodges difficult questions
At a locked down shareholders’ meeting, security company boss sidestepped hard questions, praised BBC exposé of abuse.
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Published in: Shine A LightTheresa May’s tough line on immigration punishes British children
“To them it’s just another number, someone else being sent back. But when you’ve got three children being left...