Asylum seekers

Did Labour just abandon its promise for a fairer asylum system?
Alex Firth and Michael Garcia Bochenek

Did Labour just abandon its promise for a fairer asylum system?

Legal aid crisis shows how utterly impossible the UK’s asylum system really is: ‘It’s so depressing’
Legal aid crisis

Legal aid crisis shows how utterly impossible the UK’s asylum system really is: ‘It’s so depressing’

Torture survivors face ‘gruelling’ process to get disability benefits – and it could get even worse
Disability benefits

Torture survivors face ‘gruelling’ process to get disability benefits – and it could get even worse

Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett review – lessons of a painful past
Books

Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett review – lessons of a painful past

This innovative scheme uses spare rooms to house homeless refugees after Home Office backlog blitz
Refugee homelessness

This innovative scheme uses spare rooms to house homeless refugees after Home Office backlog blitz

Foreign workers at ‘increasing risk of exploitation’ as UK sees sharp fall in work visas
Migration

Foreign workers at ‘increasing risk of exploitation’ as UK sees sharp fall in work visas

UK immigration policy is stuck in a race to the bottom – with human traffickers the only winners
Lucila Granada

UK immigration policy is stuck in a race to the bottom – with human traffickers the only winners

Labour’s new rules on small boat crossings leave campaigners ‘appalled and disappointed’
Immigration

Labour’s new rules on small boat crossings leave campaigners ‘appalled and disappointed’

I didn’t know I was a human trafficking victim till I was in my 50s – why did nobody rescue me?
Modern slavery

I didn’t know I was a human trafficking victim till I was in my 50s – why did nobody rescue me?

Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2025: Refugees, migrants and asylum seekers
Changemakers 2025

Big Issue’s Changemakers of 2025: Refugees, migrants and asylum seekers

This woman’s asylum hotel reminded her of being detained. Here’s how we can stop failing refugees
Emine Yoca

This woman’s asylum hotel reminded her of being detained. Here’s how we can stop failing refugees

Here’s how Labour can dismantle the hostile environment and end refugee homelessness in 2025
Bridget Young

Here’s how Labour can dismantle the hostile environment and end refugee homelessness in 2025

Being a survivor of torture in the UK is hard – but writing gave me back my boldness and courage
Tanya

Being a survivor of torture in the UK is hard – but writing gave me back my boldness and courage

The root causes of the UK’s racist riots remain. The government must be brave and destroy them
Tim Naor Hilton

The root causes of the UK’s racist riots remain. The government must be brave and destroy them

This is what Christmas is like for thousands of asylum seekers in hotels: ‘It’s more like a prison’
Asylum hotels

This is what Christmas is like for thousands of asylum seekers in hotels: ‘It’s more like a prison’

10 acts of violence and far-right ‘activism’ police ignored ahead of summer riots
UK riots

10 acts of violence and far-right ‘activism’ police ignored ahead of summer riots

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‘Common sense and humanity’: Home Office doubles time given to refugees before eviction from asylum hotels
Refugee homelessness

‘Common sense and humanity’: Home Office doubles time given to refugees before eviction from asylum hotels

‘Disgraceful’: Tories condemned for wasting £715m on sending no asylum seekers to Rwanda
Asylum seekers

‘Disgraceful’: Tories condemned for wasting £715m on sending no asylum seekers to Rwanda

‘This will ease the backlog’: Asylum legal aid rates set to increase for first time in almost 30 years
Legal aid

‘This will ease the backlog’: Asylum legal aid rates set to increase for first time in almost 30 years

‘Remember these are human beings’: This is what the highly-politicised UK migration stats really mean
Immigration

‘Remember these are human beings’: This is what the highly-politicised UK migration stats really mean