Migration Archive
Hi Fly: airline profiting from deportations while owners decry ‘desperate plight of migrants’
The government’s attempts to hastily expel Channel-crossing migrants on charter flights
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09 Oct 2020
Immigration raids: how direct action got UK’s ICE squads on the run
Immigration raids on people’s workplaces are one of the UK government’s
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20 Jun 2019
Calais: border profiteers update June 2019
Calais’ mayor has being trying to rebrand the town as a
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20 Jun 2019
UK Border Regime: 4 events coming up in London, Bristol, Sheffield and Glasgow
In the next 10 days we’ll be attending four events to
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31 Oct 2018
UK Border Regime: immigration raids briefing October 2018
This briefing updates our 2016 report on immigration raids called “Snitches,
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26 Oct 2018
Rewards of abuse: detention shambles as G4S’ Brook House contract extended
On Friday 4 May, slipped between the local elections and the
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07 May 2018
Immigration Detention Centres Factsheet: new edition May 2018
This is a new update of our Detention Centres Factsheet. You
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07 May 2018
Who is immigration policy for? The media-politics of the hostile environment
Image: Yarl’s Wood detention centre decorated for the royal jubilee in
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28 Apr 2018
Carceral Colonialism: Britain’s plan to build a prison wing in Nigeria
The British Government recently announced its intention to build a new
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17 Apr 2018
Campaign kicks off against G4S and Serco asylum housing contracts
As we have reported in recent updates, the Home Office is
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26 Jan 2018
Court victory against St Mungos and Thames Reach rough sleeper raids: what next?
Migrants and campaigners scored a major legal victory against the government’s
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16 Dec 2017
Mitie wins deportation ‘escorting’ contract
Outsourcing corporation Mitie has announced that it will be taking over
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15 Dec 2017
Iraqi deportations: the airlines helping the Home Office deport refugees to war zones
[responsivevoice_button] The Home Office is trying to deport dozens of refugees
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16 May 2017
The Hostile Environment: turning the UK into a nation of border cops
[responsivevoice_button] A run-down of the Home Office’s “hostile environment” measures against
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08 Apr 2017