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Protestors from Global Justice Now demonstrate outside the Home Office in London demanding an end to the Hostile Environment policy, ahead of parliamentary debate on the Windrush scandal. April, 2018. David Mirzoeff/Global Justice Now

26 Apr 2020 5 minute read

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The hostile environment in housing

Minnie Rahman on the legal fight against the British government’s racist ‘right to rent’ policy.

3 Jul 2019 2 minute read

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Check your passport privilege

Nanjala Nyabola explains the weighty, 'anti-citizen' African bureaucracies that have their origins in the colonial period....

12 Nov 2018 4 minute read

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Illegitimate children denied British citizenship by ‘archaic’ law

Katie McQue exposes the legal loopholes used to discriminate against Caribbean citizens.

8 May 2018 2 minute read

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To the new Home Secretary: This is now a civil rights issue

Paul Parker reminds Sajid Javid that Quakers stand on the side of the oppressed.

26 Apr 2018 3 minute read

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Against shithole nationalism

We're up against a long history of bigotry, ignorance and disdain, writes Mark Engler

30 Apr 2018 1 minute read

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Sanctuary boroughs in London

A community group is campaigning to turn the London borough of Haringey into a safer place for migrants. Charlotte...

27 Mar 2018 5 minute read

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Brutal forced deportations, globalization and human rights

The Stansted 15 have exposed the hypocrisy of Britain, Ann Pettifor argues.

14 Mar 2018 7 minute read

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Women starving for their basic humanity

Immigration Removal Centres are the shame of Britain, Katie McQue reports.

8 Mar 2018 5 minute read

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We demand an end to Yarl’s Wood injustice

On International Women’s Day, supporters of detainees write an open letter to the Home Secretary

UK immigration detention deaths on the rise

1 Mar 2018 2 minute read

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UK immigration detention deaths on the rise

A record number of people lost their lives in UK immigration detention centres in 2017, writes Felix Bazalgette...

23 Jun 2017 4 minute read

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‘The borderless Republic’: Sheffield celebrates migration

Britain’s largest festival about refugees and sanctuary is more relevant than ever, writes Lydia Noon.

28 May 2017 3 minute read

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‘Migration will become a human right’ – Mohsin Hamid

The author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist talks to Graeme Green about extremism, the refugee crisis and...

29 Mar 2017 4 minute read

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Why did Plane Stupid chain themselves to the runway at Stansted Airport?

Last night’s action stopped a mass deportation charter flight from flying to Nigeria and Ghana. Members of Plane...

29 Sep 2016 6 minute read

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Hong Kong: the city of difference

Vignettes of a summer teaching in the city and learning from the lives of its people, by Vidya Ramesh.

23 Jun 2016 6 minute read

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To be black in Libya

Being black is a stigma which makes life even harder in a country where chaos is the only rule, reports Karlos...

6 Oct 2015 1 minute read

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Jeremy Corbyn 2008: ‘the twilight existence of migrant life’

The new Labour Party leader made prescient observations about the crisis of migration that ring true today.

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