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Hostile Environment

Immigration raids are being carried out with impunity

Exclusive investigation — In the years between 2017 and 2021, almost all immigration raids were conducted without a warrant a new Huck investigation has found.

  • Activism
  • Jack Barton

Students are resisting the Hostile Environment at uni

Mitie must fall — A new campaign is calling on universities to sever ties with the private company that runs Britain’s immigration detention centres.

  • Activism
  • Katie Tobin

The Tories are demonising men seeking asylum

No one is illegal — The government’s Rwanda deal will not include women and children. In doing so, it seeks to stoke fear of Black and Muslim men while splitting hairs between the most vulnerable, writes Tiara Ataii.

  • Activism
  • Tiara Ataii

How the soaring cost of living is impacting asylum seekers

‘State-sponsored cruelty‘ — For asylum seekers, who are given a paltry sum to live off by the Home Office, rising prices are set to make a desperate financial situation even worse.

  • Activism
  • Isabella Cipirska

The activists who stopped Tui’s deportation flights

‘No one is illegal‘ — How did a grassroots campaign take on one of the world’s biggest holiday firms and win?

  • Activism
  • Clea Skopeliti

The fight against the UK‘s new women’s immigration centre

No To Hassockfield — Campaigners aren‘t giving up the fight to close a ‘barbaric’ detention centre which they say endangers women looking for safety.

  • Activism
  • Lauren Crosby Medlicott

Why climate justice means migrant justice

Climate takeover — It is morally reprehensible to have a conversation about climate justice without acknowledging the issues around race and migration, writes Yvonne Blake, the co-founder of MORE.

  • Activism
  • Yvonne Blake

Are immigrants with clout less likely to be deported?

Broken system — There are numerous examples of the Home Office responding more quickly to individuals in the public eye or boasting a blue tick, which begs the question: why do some cases warrant their attention, while others don’t?

  • Activism
  • Kimi Chaddah

The Tories’ not-so-secret plan to screw our rights

Be very afraid — Last weekend, the Conservatives launched their 2019 election manifesto – here are some of the more sinister key policy shifts you may have missed.

  • Opinion
  • Ben Smoke

The new exhibition giving refugees in the UK a voice

Breaking barriers — Belonging, an exhibition by the country’s leading refugee employment charity Breaking Barriers, celebrates the passions and pilgrimages of migrants in the UK.

  • Art
  • Bex Shorunke

UK protestors call for war on the hostile environment

Season of disruption — Just one day after 39 bodies were found in a lorry in Essex, activists took action against targets – including the Home Office and coach company W&H Tours – allegedly associated with deportation.

  • Activism
  • Ben Smoke

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