“Target/Tackle”: A Hostile Environment for the Homeless
Three of the UK’s biggest homelessness charities are collaborating with Home Office immigration enforcement teams on the detention and deportation of European rough sleepers.
Tag: detention
Unsettling Feminism and the Politics of the Prison Break: Ash Sarkar In Conversation with Alana Lentin
As part of our week-long Women's Strike focus, Novara Media Senior Editor Ash Sarkar interviews political sociologist and social theorist Alana Lentin about racialised exclusions from femininity and strategies for unsettling the existing social order.
Charter Flight to Jamaica Threatens Mass Removal of Migrants
On Wednesday March 8th, a charter flight is due to uproot migrants from their lives in the UK, and fly them to a country that some will never have seen as adults.
Boats, Borders, Brutality: Australia’s Refugee Policy
Last week’s Muslim ban provoked outrage across the globe. But with the mandatory detention of asylum seekers in offshore camps and forced ‘boat turnbacks’, Australia’s border regime is arguably even worse than Trump’s.
Immigration Detention & Deportation: A View From Jamaica
Indefinite detention and sudden deportation are staples of policing UK borders. Luke de Noronha talks to Jamaican deportees who have been through this system, to find out more about life at the sharp end of UK immigration law.
Contesting Detention: A #ShutDownYarlsWood Photo Essay
A recent Movement for Justice protest at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre was the largest yet, attended by an estimated 1000 people. This photo essay explores the voices of those inside and outside the detention centre as pressure builds to shut it down.