A report from the UK’s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) highlights the growing number of migrant children who are unaccounted for by authorities in France and the UK, despite having been identified in the Calais camp as particularly...
A report published by the independent inspectorate that monitors the treatment of detainees in England and Wales has detailed the troubling conduct of officials towards asylum seekers during a removal flight in January 2018. The report from HMIP (Her Majesty’s...
By Moira Dustin, SOGICA Project Asylum seekers fleeing homophobia and transphobia to claim refuge in European countries have a difficult time. They experience many of the problems that all asylum seekers face – the abuses and injustices that forced them to leave their...
In recent weeks, significant numbers of asylum seekers in the UK have been informed that they are prohibited from studying, including some who had been preparing for important examinations. Legislative changes brought in under Schedule 10 to the Immigration Act 2016,...
An official report on Europe’s largest detention facility Harmondsworth immigration removal centre (IRC) found “considerable failings”, including detention of victims of torture, lack of mental health provision and excessive periods of detention. The British...
