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If passed, it will be the fifth immigration act adopted in five parliamentary sessions.
People seeking asylum navigate one of the most complex areas of law, often not in their first language
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.
The aim is to disrupt Channel crossings well before people reach the French coast.
An independent inquiry found ‘systemic’ failures that led to the deadliest Channel crossing.
For LGBTQ+ people, ‘safety’ does not switch on when their countries’ laws change or a conflict stops.
The public may not be aware that numbers have fallen, and those who are aware may not consider 200,000 to be particularly low.
Child refugees could live their entire childhoods in Britain with no guarantee that they will remain in the place they have come to think of as home.
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.
Asylum housing needs to come back under public control.
Accurately recognising how refugees actually feel is linked to reduced fear and greater willingness to help.
Campaigners, academics and groups that support asylum seekers have long called for the UK to introduce “safe and legal routes”.
Since 2019, the UK and France have focused on addressing the rise in Channel crossings.
Efforts to speed up the asylum process have led to more people who are granted refugee status sleeping rough.
In being granted British citizenship, Paddington has fared far differently than most people arriving in the UK in need of help.
Government policies can affect how many people arrive, what rights and protections they have in the UK, and what happens to those who arrive without permission.
UN human rights experts have warned that airlines transporting people to Rwanda could be complicit in human rights abuses.
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UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, School of Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leicester
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Professor in Human Geography, Durham University
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Professor of ESOL, University of South Wales
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, Aberystwyth University
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Professor in Global Development, SOAS, University of London
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Professor in Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor (Housing Policy), Adelaide University, and Research Associate, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer in Law
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Professor, Department of Politics, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Law, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in Welsh, Swansea University
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Researcher, Centre on Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS), Deputy Director, Migration Observatory, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Law, UNSW
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Senior Visiting Research Fellow, UCD Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin
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Senior Research Fellow in Policy Evidence and Survivor Support, Rights Lab, University of Nottingham