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If passed, it will be the fifth immigration act adopted in five parliamentary sessions.
Trying to outflank Reform UK won’t work – and could just make tensions worse.
New proposals would introduce a 10-year ‘baseline’ for settlement, with refugees and benefits claimants facing the highest wait times.
The proposals include cutting support for some asylum seekers and limiting refugee status to 30 months at a time.
Refugee status was always intended to be temporary.
Shabana Mahmood says she no longer has confidence in West Midlands police chief constable Craig Guildford.
The public may not be aware that numbers have fallen, and those who are aware may not consider 200,000 to be particularly low.
How did Mahmood, who once stated that she personally supported a general amnesty for all undocumented workers, become the face of a hardline Labour migration policy?
People who have been recognised as needing humanitarian protection will be under constant review.
Under UK law, the home secretary has a duty to pursue removal of foreign national offenders.
In this hierarchical system, migrants are kept on extended probation and judged by standards never applied to British nationals.
Medical law is based on the idea that a patient consents to an intervention that will benefit them. Is that the case here?
The wider use of pre-sentence reports could help reduce existing racial disparities in sentencing.
Lengthy confinement within locked, poorly maintained and overcrowded cells triggers boredom and restlessness, and contributes to violent incidents.
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Professor of Refugee Law, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in Police Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Reader at the School of Government and Public Policy, University of Strathclyde
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Criminal Justice, Brunel University of London
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
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Senior Researcher at The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Reader in Political Science and International Relations, Aston University
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Professor in Human Geography, Durham University
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Assistant Professor in Global Challenges, Brunel University of London
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Lecturer in Politics and member of Reactionary Politics Research Network, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Lancaster University