Proposals to reform legal aid in the UK will leave asylum seekers ever more dependent on the good will of solicitors and 'justice through benevolence', say Chloé Lewis and Azeemah Kola
Why is widespread social anxiety fuelling xenophobia rather than criticism of neoliberal capitalism? What role has the state played? Have we arrived at the paradoxical situation where the best we can do is to call on the state to do its job?
Does Europe offer a model for a solution to xenophobia, or is it a major part of the problem; or is it just in a much more confused place altogether?
Ten days ago, an “underground town” of migrant workers was discovered below a military factory in Moscow. The discovery played into popular anxieties about migrants and was heavily spun by the national media. For Madeleine Reeves, however, it highlighted the daily struggle migrants face to stay “l
In response to Daniele Archibugi, the author rejects an approach to migration which sets cosmopolitans against communitarians. Instead she proposes a scheme able to differentiate, to address and to juggle the needs of both
For France, acting in a ‘humanitarian’ manner means intervening in Libya’s civil war but does not extend to freely accepting refugees from Libya or Tunisia within its borders.
In Cameron's speech on immigration yesterday, he said that real integration takes time. James Lee of the Refugee Council agrees, but asks how the government plans to achieve this whilst enforcing cuts to ESOL classes that allow immigrants to learn the English language
The funding cuts in the UK are hitting young asylum seekers by blocking well-established pathways into inclusion. This reality sits uncomfortably with David Cameron’s ‘Big Society inclusion’, and the costs of this hypocrisy will be manifold, says Jenny Allsopp
The Coalition’s justification for continuing to detain families with children is that otherwise they will abscond. This is simply not true, according to Professor Heaven Crawley.
Well founded suspicion of ‘integration’ policies in civil society has let government off the hook, leaving a vacuum in national policy towards those arriving to live in the UK and public debate open to those who argue integration is solely the responsibility of migrants themselves, argues Sarah Sp
Having identified a culture of disbelief at the heart of the British Home Office, campaigners for refugee rights must also address its culture of denial.
The UK's immigration courts have been criticised for unfairness and lack of due process for years. Today, a report is published containing observations from trained members of the public who attended immigration bail hearings in 2010. Nearly half found the court proceedings to be irregular.
