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Cacti, pomegranate and fig trees

23 May 2011 4 minute read

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Cacti, pomegranate and fig trees

Maps of places that no longer exist and anger towards what is: the Nakba is still continuing.

‘Dreams are for no reason. Let them sleep’

20 Apr 2011 4 minute read

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‘Dreams are for no reason. Let them sleep’

Prison and a Palestinian refugee camp are the harsh reality for Manal – and the struggle for survival leaves little room for...

Do you know what is happening in Camp Ashraf?

13 Jan 2011 3 minute read

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Do you know what is happening in Camp Ashraf?

It’s home to 3,400 Iranian refugees in Iraq – and they are under attack.

7 Jan 2011 2 minute read

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Keep out!

Tighter immigration controls first on Canada’s agenda for 2011?

Deported! Different destinies

23 Sep 2010 2 minute read

This article is more than 12 years old.

Deported! Different destinies

Following up on the lives of the men we featured in our June...

Zimbabwe’s refugees suffer as World Cup kicks off

16 Jun 2010 3 minute read

This article is almost 13 years old.

Zimbabwe’s refugees suffer as World Cup kicks off

Migrants escaping dire poverty find cold comfort in neighbouring South Africa, writes Olivia Ward.

1 Jun 2010 5 minute read

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Moving on from hate

Prominent Australian barrister Julian Burnside explains how the government has moved the asylum system in a fairer direction...

1 Jun 2010 9 minute read

This article is almost 13 years old.

John ‘Bosco’ Nyombi: flight and detention

John ‘Bosco’ Nyombiwas removed from Britain to months of fear and persecution as a gay man in Uganda. Eventually, a British...

1 Jun 2010 10 minute read

This article is almost 13 years old.

Desperate journey

*Emmanuel Njoya* was kicked out of Britain and straight back to Cameroon – where he lives in hiding, fearing for his family’s...

'I was in an art class'

1 Jun 2010 4 minute read

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'I was in an art class'

Even the young are not exempt: a Costa Rican schoolgirl recalls the day Canadian immigration officers arrested her.

13 May 2010 5 minute read

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The hardest journey

Mirzeta Trnka, now settled in Australia, fled Bosnia during the country’s war in 1995. Her story has a happy ending, but for...

1 May 2010 4 minute read

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Post-invasion Iraq - the facts

Twelve years of sanctions and seven years of occupation have taken their toll as Iraqis struggle with wrecked infrastructure...

4 Feb 2010 9 minute read

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We mean business!

Refugees in a Rwandian camp are finding enterprising ways to make a living, discovers Wil Morat.

13 Jan 2010 4 minute read

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Digging for sanctuary

Unlikely friendships grow among the vegetables at an allotment in Devon. Ruth Gidley meets a group of asylum seekers who are...

21 Oct 2009 7 minute read

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From Calais to Dover: the widening gulf

Sophie Roumat reports on last month's destruction of the 'Jungle' - the Calais camp which housed Afghan asylum seekers.

Asylum in the UK: Destitution, detention, deportation?

5 Oct 2009 1 minute read

This article is more than 13 years old.

Asylum in the UK: Destitution, detention, deportation?

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