UK Home Office to offer leave to Calais children, but critics warn move is ‘arbitrary and unfair’
Minister for immigration, Caroline Nokes, announced on Thursday that the Home Office is to offer children who were brought to the UK when the ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais was demolished, an exceptional form of “Calais leave”. This leave which will included the right to...
UK: Dramatic cuts in integration
A recent study by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has found that the UK government has made dramatic cuts to the funding of key community cohesion strategies. This is in spite of repeated rhetoric that puts the burden, and time pressure, of integration...
Op-Ed: The myth and demise of ‘sanctuary’ in the UK
By Yasmin Ibrahim, Queen Mary University of London and Anita Howarth, Brunel University. Humanitarianism as a set of responses by governments to protect the human and alleviate suffering is in a state of crisis today, particularly the concept of refuge or sanctuary....