Jacob King / PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo
Labour and Conservatives share a desire to wean the UK off a dependency on migrant labour.
Leaving the EU has meant leaving a series of agreements on immigration.
Suella Braverman’s Chinook flight to an immigration holding facility in Kent is the latest move in a decade of border spectacle.
Gareth Fuller / PA images
Recent scenes at Victoria Station and Manston immigration centre are one way the government drives anti-migration sentiment.
Belgrave Road, aka the Golden Mile, is in a majority Hindu area of Leicester.
i4images rm | Alamy
Tensions between Hindus and Muslims have been growing in Leicester for months. The city’s leadership needs to take the time to understand why.
Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta shakes hands with U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel.
Cyril Ndegeya/Xinhua via Getty Images
A UK plan to move asylum seekers on its shores to Rwanda has been met with stiff opposition from human rights organizations. But the UK persists, and Rwanda is all too willing.
Britain’s Prince William speaks during the unveiling of the National Windrush Monument on June 22, 2022.
John SibleyPOOL/AFP via Getty Images
The legacy of racism in both the United States and the United Kingdom has impacted the ability of Blacks and other ethnic groups to accumulate wealth.
Priti Patel and Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta agreed the migration partnership in April 2022.
Eugene Uwimana / EPA-EFE
The court blocked the UK from deporting asylum-seekers to Rwanda until after cases in the UK are decided.
Taking on the UK’s migration management is of short-term benefit to Rwanda, a country facing considerable economic hardship.
PA Images | Alamy Stock Photo
Richer nations are increasingly looking to offshore their immigration processing and further their own economic and political interests at the same time.
A protester outside an immigration detention facility in Melbourne, Austraila.
FiledIMAGE/Shutterstock
Plus, Russia’s history of using refugees from Ukraine as geopolitical tools. Listen to The Conversation Weekly.
Lena Si / Shutterstock
The use of scientific processes would be a huge improvement on the UK’s current methods for assessing the age of asylum seekers.
Rawpixel.com / Shutterstock
Pastors have a limited role in asylum processes of Christian converts.
SOPA Images Limited / Alamy Stock Photo
The latest border protection move from the UK government could breach international law.
Migrants in this rigid inflatable in the English Channel were spotted in the shipping lane and the coastguard were alerted to their presence.
adp-news/Alamy
Data from Oxford University shows UK asylum applications are proportionally lower than Cyprus, Luxembourg and Iceland.
Court of Justice of the European Union
The CJEU’s ruling on benefits access for some EU nationals could have stark implications for millions of people.
Ascannio/Shutterstock
As we pass a key deadline, what will happen to the millions of EU citizens living in the UK?
Detainees in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre hold up signs calling for help during anti-detention demonstration.
Mark Kerrison/Alamy
The sustained lack of trust between migrants and health professionals is leading to dire consequences
Private organisations are doing important work to help refugees settle.
Picture Capital / Alamy Stock Photo
Amid rising inequality and social tensions, measures must be taken to protect refugees from the backlash and help them settle instead
Andy Rain/EPA
Britain’s widely circulated notion of the ‘foreign criminal’ has generated an atmosphere of hostility in Jamaica.
A detainee holds a hand against her cell window at Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre, Bedford.
Pete Maclaine/Shutterstock
This is a system that will likely become even worse given the impact of Brexit and the backlog of cases created by the pandemic.
PA
At times of economic crisis, our feelings towards migrants can become hardened.