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Britain’s widely circulated notion of the ‘foreign criminal’ has generated an atmosphere of hostility in Jamaica.
Biometric data is being used to target those deemed unwanted aliens.
Interest in Black British writing has grown and shrunk since the late 1940s. Is the current wave going to crash like those before it?
This sorry tale of institutional racism represents a scandal to rival the treatment of the Windrush generation.
Her novels and essays, especially Small Island and The Long Song, brought Britain’s slave-owning colonial history home to ordinary Britons, black and white alike.
Labour’s immigration plans are progressive, but could still get bogged down in red tape.
The new NHS charging regime will have a severe impact on the most vulnerable people in society.
During World War II, many Anglo-Italians who had come to the UK as economic migrants, were interned as ‘enemy aliens’ – and some deported.
Windrush passengers became frequent guests on the BBC after their arrival 70 years ago.
What is the legacy of the Empire Windrush for black Britishness today?
When the Empire Windrush arrived in Tilbury Docks 70 years ago, it was on a return journey – having taken West Indian war veterans back to the Caribbean.
Great Britain was not the only country behaving badly with its Caribbean population: France also experienced similar waves of post-war migration.
She lurches from crisis to crisis but the prime minister remains in post. How does she do it?
Where to start dismantling the UK’s hostile environment policy on immigration.
The son of Pakistani immigrants was told at school he’d never even make it to university.
A culture of disbelief for asylum seekers is endemic in the British immigration system.
Theresa May lasted a long time, but this department chews up secretaries of state like no other.
Home Office deportation targets reduce complex human stories to statistics.
In a bid to meet unrealistic migration targets, the government has been enforcing document checks at every turn.
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, The Open University
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Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor of Criminology, University of Bristol
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Senior Research Associate, Cambridge Public Health; Associate Research Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Applied Research into Human Trafficking; Deputy Director, Intellectual Forum, Jesus College, University of Cambridge
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer: Politics, History and International Relations, Aston University
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Professor of History and Medical Humanities, University of Exeter
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PhD candidate, Kent Law School, University of Kent
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Lecturer in Criminology, Birkbeck, University of London
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Research Fellow (Henry Jackson Society - Centre on Radicalisation & Terrorism), Royal Holloway University of London
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Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of East Anglia
