Over the past few days, it has been difficult to miss the media coverage of the arrival of 14 of the 387 unaccompanied refugee children living in the Calais jungle and identified as having a legal right to join family members in the UK. Amidst expressions of welcome and empathy,… Read More
Case Studies
Let them eat laptops
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
Policy matters
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
‘Cockroaches’. Migrants’ rights and the Midland Legal Walk
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
Health, hysteria and hostile environments
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
