Archive: Refugees

Abused and forgotten: Time for UK govt to fight for the Rohingya

Half a million people are now living in the world's largest refugee camp

ESRC: Ending Refugees’ exile

We all tend to assume that refugees want to go home. But often refugees cannot just return to their home country when conflict ends. Many have spent decades in exile; many second and third-generation refugees have never seen the place which they are now expected to call home. Research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) shows that for many refugees a quick return isn’t the right answer.
First case of asylum granted in UK under Refugee Convention on basis of atheism

The Home Office have reportedly for the first time granted an asylum application on the basis of atheism.
Failure to meet needs of refugee children condemned

NASUWT has highlighted the appalling impact of the global refugee crisis on the world’s children and young people
NASUWT: Coalition government policies threaten segregation and worsening educational standard's

NASUWT: Coalition government policies threaten segregation and worsening educational standard's

The Politics.co.uk Podcast - EU migrant crisis

Can we even call it a "crisis"?
The one small change which could improve life for thousands of refugees

Crucial bill could see children allowed to bring over support network instead of living alone.

Trumped: May left damaged by early contact with president

Trump's state visit is a problem of May's own making
Language barriers are making asylum seekers suffer all over again

Lack of access to higher education is making life even harder for asylum seekers in the UK

PMQs verdict: Angus Robertson is becoming the unofficial leader of the opposition

Angus Robertson stands head and shoulders over Jeremy Corbyn
Mea culpa? Why pairing should have been mentioned more prominently in this piece

Our article on the refugee vote was simplified a step too far - but Labour still made a choice here.

It’s time for supporters of refugees to talk about integration

Current policies are obstructing refugees from integrating
VIDEO: Watching the Calais migrant camp's destruction

Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP for Brighton and Hove, speaks about the reality of tearing down the French migrant camp.

Caroline Lucas: The Calais Jungle now resembles a war zone

Green MP's harrowing account of how the camp in France is being torn apart by the authorities
Comment: Supporters of refugees need to stop comparing their opponents to Hitler

By overusing the Nazi label we diminish the power to highlight real fascism

Farron: Britain has 'turned its back' on child refugees

The Lib Dem leader has urged the prime minister to take more child refugees
Why has Europe stopped caring about children drowning on our shores?

The tragic death of Aylan Kurdi led to thousands of people demanding action, yet ten weeks on children are still drowning

May is starting to implement her poisonous immigration speech

May's harsh, mean streak of Conservatism is creeping its way into the statute book
Torture survivors must not be abandoned once they arrive in the UK

The prime minister’s resettlement offer of Syrian refugees must include plans for the full support of victims of torture

Pick of the Week: No mercy from Nigel Farage

Our five most-read stories this week
The deportation game: What happens when refugees turn 18?

Warnings that Syrian refugees will be deported at 18 are wide of the mark, but Britain has a reprehensible record on sending young people back to war zones

Tory MP urges David Cameron to ignore 'emotional craving' to help refugees

Prime minister told to listen to 'silent majority' and turn away refugees
Why we should be suspicious of Cameron's Syrian refugee announcement

Cameron's statement contained many of the same misdirections which saw him squirm out of his responsibility to Syrian refugees last year.