With the advent of Brexit, people will doubtless have read of the chaos and uncertainty facing European Union nationals resident in the UK who are seeking to regularise their status under the Home Office’s Settled Status scheme. But if the situation is difficult and confusing for people with clearly demarcated… Read More
Case Studies
After ‘Windrush’?
Months after the ‘Windrush’ scandal caught the public imagination- sparking a public debate on the wilful institutional neglect which contributed to the destruction of thousands of lives- distressing stories continue to hit the news. Yesterday, for example, we read of the early death of Sarah O’Connor, who had been resident… Read More
Strategy or chaos?
ASIRT has recently begun working with ‘Tina’, the intelligent and formidable single mother of ‘Brendan’, who is 13. Brendan is British. He acquired his citizenship from his father, Tina’s ex-partner, who has passed away. Tina, however, is not British. Because of this, she is required by the Home Office to… Read More
When Every Child Doesn’t Matter
In a week in which it has been reported both that UNICEF has determined the UK to have the worst record in the European Union for child hunger, and that children living in poverty are routinely being denied access to free school meals because of their parents’ immigration statuses, we… Read More
‘Tell Me How It Ends’
I’ve recently read Valeria Luiselli’s excellent ‘Tell Me How It Ends’, an account of the author’s experience of working as a volunteer interpreter for migrant children at risk of deportation from Trump’s America. In one passage, Luiselli recounts a conversation with her young daughter about her work, in which she… Read More
