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Asylum seekers

Labour's new rules on small boat crossings leave campaigners 'appalled and disappointed'
Habib from Afghanistan explained that people are only crossing the Channel in small boats because they're desperate
Immigration

Labour's new rules on small boat crossings leave campaigners 'appalled and disappointed'

Labour's new rules on small boat crossings have left some campaigners 'appalled and disappointed'
Labour's raids on illegal migrant workers no cause for celebration: 'An utterly pointless performance'
Police holding crowds back from the Home Office vehicle.
Immigration

Labour's raids on illegal migrant workers no cause for celebration: 'An utterly pointless performance'

I didn't know I was a human trafficking victim till I was in my 50s – why did nobody rescue me?
slavery still exists in the modern world poster
Modern slavery

I didn't know I was a human trafficking victim till I was in my 50s – why did nobody rescue me?

Big Issue's Changemakers of 2025: Refugees, migrants and asylum seekers
Changemakers 2025

Big Issue's Changemakers of 2025: Refugees, migrants and asylum seekers

This woman's asylum hotel reminded her of being detained. Here's how we can stop failing refugees
Emine Yoca

This woman's asylum hotel reminded her of being detained. Here's how we can stop failing refugees

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Here's how Labour can dismantle the hostile environment and end refugee homelessness in 2025
a person sleeping on a dark street
Bridget Young

Here's how Labour can dismantle the hostile environment and end refugee homelessness in 2025

Being a survivor of torture in the UK is hard – but writing gave me back my boldness and courage
a group of people reading and writing
Tanya

Being a survivor of torture in the UK is hard – but writing gave me back my boldness and courage

The root causes of the UK's racist riots remain. The government must be brave and destroy them
Tim Naor Hilton

The root causes of the UK's racist riots remain. The government must be brave and destroy them

This is what Christmas is like for thousands of asylum seekers in hotels: 'It's more like a prison'
A silhouette of a man in front of the shape of a Christmas tree
Asylum hotels

This is what Christmas is like for thousands of asylum seekers in hotels: 'It's more like a prison'

10 acts of violence and far-right 'activism' police ignored ahead of summer riots
protesters surround a police van
UK riots

10 acts of violence and far-right 'activism' police ignored ahead of summer riots

Calls to give Syrian asylum seekers right to work while UK suspends refugee applications
A UNICEF worker holds a child outside a shelter center in Homs, Syria
Syria

Calls to give Syrian asylum seekers right to work while UK suspends refugee applications

‘Common sense and humanity’: Home Office doubles time given to refugees before eviction from asylum hotels
a tent on the street
Refugee homelessness

‘Common sense and humanity’: Home Office doubles time given to refugees before eviction from asylum hotels

'Disgraceful': Tories condemned for wasting £715m on sending no asylum seekers to Rwanda
Asylum seekers

'Disgraceful': Tories condemned for wasting £715m on sending no asylum seekers to Rwanda

'This will ease the backlog': Asylum legal aid rates set to increase for first time in almost 30 years
Home secretary Yvette Cooper
Legal aid

'This will ease the backlog': Asylum legal aid rates set to increase for first time in almost 30 years

'Remember these are human beings': This is what the highly-politicised UK migration stats really mean
Protesting the Borders Bill
Immigration

'Remember these are human beings': This is what the highly-politicised UK migration stats really mean

'Punitive' asylum system pushing refugees into homelessness: 'It's fuelling injustice'
a person sleeping on a dark street
Homelessness

'Punitive' asylum system pushing refugees into homelessness: 'It's fuelling injustice'

Vulnerable asylum seekers need lawyers. Here's how Labour can fix the legal aid scandal
Home secretary Yvette Cooper
Sairah Javed

Vulnerable asylum seekers need lawyers. Here's how Labour can fix the legal aid scandal

Letters: Sending job coaches to mental health wards isn't just ludicrous – it's desperate
Mental health
Letters

Letters: Sending job coaches to mental health wards isn't just ludicrous – it's desperate

Cost of housing asylum seekers soars to £41,000 per person, study finds: 'Urgent reform needed'
Bibby Stockholm protest
Asylum hotels

Cost of housing asylum seekers soars to £41,000 per person, study finds: 'Urgent reform needed'

I ended up in hospital due to lack of legal aid for my asylum claim – I got physically sick
a man with a backpack leans against a lamppost
Social Justice

I ended up in hospital due to lack of legal aid for my asylum claim – I got physically sick

'Broken' legal aid system leaves vulnerable asylum seekers facing 'life and death' decisions alone
Home secretary Yvette Cooper
Legal aid

'Broken' legal aid system leaves vulnerable asylum seekers facing 'life and death' decisions alone

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
The asylum legal aid crisis is costing taxpayers more than you think. Here's why
a man stands on a busy street in London and checks his phone
Legal aid

The asylum legal aid crisis is costing taxpayers more than you think. Here's why

How to get help as an asylum seeker if you can't find legal aid
A man holding a pan writes on paper
Legal aid

How to get help as an asylum seeker if you can't find legal aid

'It's hell on Earth': British doctors recall seeing 'unimaginable suffering' in Gaza
War in Gaza

'It's hell on Earth': British doctors recall seeing 'unimaginable suffering' in Gaza

Dehumanising rhetoric on immigration shows we have learned nothing from the Windrush Scandal
A protest against the hostile environment stance on immigration
Nick Beales

Dehumanising rhetoric on immigration shows we have learned nothing from the Windrush Scandal