If they mean the immediate closure of Yarl's Wood, that should be a cause for great rejoicing. This is why we must hold them to it
A welcome electoral setback for the BNP may have been bought at the expense of their politics on immigration and asylum being adopted by the Conservative and Labour parties within a general “common sense” racist political culture
The UK is almost alone in Europe in detaining migrants indefinitely. The cost to the taxpayer does not come cheap. The costs to detainees are incalculable. But in the long term, the most serious damage may be to the British tradition of defending civil liberties from arbitrary state power.
In a reply to Tim Finch, Kjartan Sveinsson says that we should not lose sight of the lessons of our recent history in which, contrary to what some politicians maintain, racism and anti- immigrant sentiments have been closely linked.
An exchange between the Prime Minister and campaigners on the question of child detention
The state of Arizona’s clampdown on unauthorised residence is part of a wider political drive to control population-flows. The approach is regressive and unworkable, says Saskia Sassen.
When terrified men, women and children are being shunted off to countries where they face real and imminent risk of rape, torture, genital mutilation or death, an MP’s urgent appeal to government may tip the balance, stalling removal directions, making time to get legal advice.
The new radical right has overcome the traditional split between left and right by combining anti-establishment resentment and demands for democratic reform with the use of protest and identity politics as mobilizing agents.
More migrants entering the UK does not equal a more progressive attitude to migration. Those who make the case for a fairer migration policy would do well to question their own position.
The UK's attempt to control visitors is creating painful injustices, repels applicants and seems to be unaccountable.
“I'd prefer, rather than going to a detention centre ... to be in prison for the rest of my life,” said Cecilia. Debora Singer works with women seeking asylum in the UK and argues that it is high time that the gender sensitive culture developed for women in the criminal justice system is transferr
"I may able to give my children whatever they may need and ask for but the sacrifices in exchange of all these is far cruel, I was not there to take care of them when they were sick, I never see them grow.....migrant or second class citizen I may be, I am one of the migrants who cry for any injust
