‘Night and day we cry’: A family’s year in an asylum seeker hotel
As a new report labels asylum accommodation ‘de-facto detention’, a mother details her family’s struggle
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UK accused of ‘washing its hands’ of Iraqi refugees
Just a tenth of Iraqis claiming asylum in the UK have been given refugee status since the war
Whistleblowers pay the price for speaking up. A new law could protect them
People who speak out about wrongdoing in the workplace can often face blacklisting, harassment and legal action. Proposed legislation aims to change that
What Brick Lane’s Bengali squatters can teach us about gentrification
Fifty years after the squatters’ movement in east London, the Bengali community is once again under threat
How the government went to war on refugee charities
Fears that backlash will intensify as government presses on with its widely condemned Illegal Migration Bill
How spying on campaigners became mainstream in the UK
Many of the UK’s most prominent institutions are using private intelligence firms to snoop on activists
How Britain’s broken asylum system props up the Iranian government
Exclusive: Iran’s leaders use the UK’s increasingly hostile asylum policies to warn political refugees against fleeing