The coalition prioritised cutting migrant numbers but has also made life more difficult for those still coming in.
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Immigration – Analyses
David Cameron seems surprised that desperate people are trying to come to the UK. He must only read the British press.
With thousands dying in the Mediterranean, migrants and refugees have started coming to Europe by land. And countries in the East aren’t happy.
One of the main premises of strict immigration policies is that states have total rights over their territory. That doesn’t make much sense.
Foreign-born nurses working in the UK do a vital job in the face of discrimination, but their recruitment helps entrench global healthcare inequality.
International reporting of the Caribbean country’s migrant crisis is in danger of missing the point of what the authorities have actually done.
The Refugee Tales is a modern reconstruction of Chaucer’s classic pilgrimage – this time, telling the largely unspoken realities of immigration detention.
From the UK, to Canada, Australia and the states – our opinions about the military are usually wrong.
An expert spent seven years studying the interactions between locals and immigrants: this is what he found.
This is the eighth year in a row that Indian-American kids have emerged as champions at the National Spelling Bee. What is the ‘secret’ to their success?
The EU’s proposal to relocate 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean nationals from Greece and Italy to other EU Member States is not what it seems.
Theresa May defends her decision to refuse help to people risking their lives to come to Europe with some faulty evidence.
The UK is refusing to take just 2,000 refugees to help tackle the crisis in the Mediterranean. And it puts the EU on a knife edge.
The problem with auctioning immigration places is that it puts the focus on short-term revenue-raising, rather than immigration’s more important medium- to long-term nation-building role.
The migration of early Africans into the Middle East, then across the Mediterranean into Europe and Asia – and eventually into the Americas and Australia and the Pacific Islands – is the origin of today’s humanity.
Ipsos Mori are asking thousands about their views on this polarising topic.
The death of a New Zealand citizen who returned to Iraq has led some to query his status as a refugee. We need to be clear about what it means to be granted asylum and the rights of citizenship.
The proposed response to the Mediterranean migrant crisis could well do more harm than good.
Our immigration expert evaluates the manifestos of 16 political parties, to see how their policies on immigration stack up.
While the SNP’s manifesto is rather thin on immigration pledges, it does make a proposal to attract more international students – a group Scotland needs badly.
Smaller party leaders could push for a more generous approach if called upon to support a Labour government.
Our experts review the evidence behind the Green Party’s big ticket policies.
The Greens offer a fresh outlook on immigration in the UK, but their manifesto contains shades of uncertainty.
UKIP’s immigration policies should have cleared away any ambiguity about what the party wants. Instead, they’ve added to it.
Our expert shows that public opinion may not be the best guide for effective policy.