Many asylum applications are rejected on grounds that dismiss the dire situations in applicants’ countries of origin.
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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.
Recent scenes at Victoria Station and Manston immigration centre are one way the government drives anti-migration sentiment.
Tensions between Hindus and Muslims have been growing in Leicester for months. The city’s leadership needs to take the time to understand why.
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.
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.
The court blocked the UK from deporting asylum-seekers to Rwanda until after cases in the UK are decided.
Richer nations are increasingly looking to offshore their immigration processing and further their own economic and political interests at the same time.
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The use of scientific processes would be a huge improvement on the UK’s current methods for assessing the age of asylum seekers.
Pastors have a limited role in asylum processes of Christian converts.
The latest border protection move from the UK government could breach international law.
Data from Oxford University shows UK asylum applications are proportionally lower than Cyprus, Luxembourg and Iceland.
The CJEU’s ruling on benefits access for some EU nationals could have stark implications for millions of people.
As we pass a key deadline, what will happen to the millions of EU citizens living in the UK?
The sustained lack of trust between migrants and health professionals is leading to dire consequences
Amid rising inequality and social tensions, measures must be taken to protect refugees from the backlash and help them settle instead
Britain’s widely circulated notion of the ‘foreign criminal’ has generated an atmosphere of hostility in Jamaica.
This is a system that will likely become even worse given the impact of Brexit and the backlog of cases created by the pandemic.
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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 Criminology, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor in Social and Trauma Psychology, Nottingham Trent University
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Director, Migration Observatory, University of Oxford
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Professor in Human Rights Law, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of East London
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Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute, King's College London
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Associate Professor, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham
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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 Law at The City Law School, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Geography, University of Sussex