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Let them eat laptops

24th May 2016 By Dave

On May 17th, the Government published the Immigration Act 2016. The Act is specifically designed to make life as difficult as possible for people subject to immigration control, further consolidating the ‘hostile environment’ agenda pursued by the Home Secretary since the election of the Coalition Government in 2010. Amongst other… Read More

Filed Under: Asylum, Case Studies, Fund Raising, Government, Immigration Tagged With: children, citizenship, home office, legal aid, legal rights, non-British, war and persecution

Policy matters

4th May 2016 By Dave

Way back in July 2014, a migrant family denied recourse to public funds initiated a legal challenge against the London Borough of Newham, which had acknowledged a statutory duty towards the family under section 17 of the Children Act 1989. At that time, Newham was paying this family- consisting of… Read More

Filed Under: Case Studies, Government, Immigration Tagged With: children, home office, legal aid, legal rights, local authority

‘Cockroaches’. Migrants’ rights and the Midland Legal Walk

7th May 2015 By Dave

By Dave Stamp. As I write this, the polling booths have finally opened for voting following a General Election campaign, in which the subject of immigration has played a central role. With increasing regularity, migrants are portrayed less as human beings with aspirations, hopes and fears, but as a kind… Read More

Filed Under: Case Studies, Government, Immigration Tagged With: General Election, NHS

Health, hysteria and hostile environments

21st December 2014 By Dave

Over the past week, Birmingham’s local press has been commenting on the case of a GP practice manager prosecuted for providing treatment, at a cost, to ‘health tourists’. One of the interesting- and unreported- facts about the case is that the treatment received by the patients in question, who were… Read More

Filed Under: Case Studies, Government, Immigration Tagged With: citizenship, health-care, legal rights, NHS

Every Child Matters…?

27th November 2014 By Dave

By Dave Stamp Over the past few months, as the ‘hostile environment’ agenda has become ever further entrenched, we have become ever more astonished by statutory agencies’ apparently wilfully disregard for the well-being of the children of parents subject to immigration control. We are becoming used to seeing the single… Read More

Filed Under: Case Studies, Government, Homeless, Immigration Tagged With: anti-immigration, education, home office, non-British, poverty

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