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Report: Hundreds of Detainees Have Been Released, but the Government Still Won’t Shut Detention Centres Down

Around 350 people are believed to have been released from UK detention centres over the past fortnight, following a push by campaign groups to protect them from Covid-19. But the High Court has rejected a bid to have the centres shut entirely, leaving at least 700 detainees in danger. Natalie Leal reports.

Opinion: The Jamaica Charter Flight Underscores the UK’s Broken Deportation System

Despite public outcry a deportation flight has forcibly removed fathers from their families, to a country some don’t even remember. Rudy Schulkind asks, how did we get here?

Power Beyond Borders: Climate Activists Target the Hostile Environment

Inside the climate camp where people within the environmental justice movement are learning to work together with activists on the frontline of fighting for migrants’ rights.

A Day in the Life of a Marxist Immigration Barrister

An anonymous immigration barrister describes a typical day at work, the uphill battle of dismantling the British imperial border and why theirs is a job that really shouldn’t exist.

Lights in the Distance: Migration in Europe

On #NovaraFM, James Butler talks to Daniel Trilling and Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi on migration to Europe, the politics of cross-border movement, the experiences of people who make the crossing and what drives them.

5 Reasons We Don’t Need Detention Centres

Detention centres seem inevitable. In reality, they are an invention of an inhumane immigration system. Here's five reasons we don't need them.

Laverstoke Court: Where Is the Anti-Racist Response to Derby’s New Asylum Accommodation Centre?

Racist backlash from white residents, outsourcing, the ‘dispersal’ regime and the failures of liberal refugee rights groups have all converged around the opening of a new 'initial accommodation' centre for asylum seekers. Connor Woodman reports from the East Midlands.

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On Migration and the State: Lea Ypi

On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Lea Ypi, professor in political theory at the LSE to discuss ways of thinking about migration, what it tells us about the state and the possibility of an emancipatory cosmopolitanism.

Long Read: The Stansted 15 Follow a Long Tradition of Direct Action in the UK – But They Also Go Beyond It

On Monday 15 people will face trial on terror-related charges for blockading a deportation charter flight last year. Ewa Jasiewicz reflects on the history of radical direct action-orientated solidarity in the UK and how this action was the first of its kind.

With University Staff Forced to Act like Border Guards, Striking Lecturers Must Show Solidarity with Yarl’s Wood

UCU picketers must act in solidarity with hunger strikers in Yarl's Wood because their struggles are intrinsically linked. The inhumane border control system that makes international students fear failing to meet their visa requirements and puts the unwanted duty of immigration policing on to university staff, also creates detention centres.

Solidarity With the Yarl’s Wood Hunger Strikers

Women in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre have now been on hunger strike for nearly two weeks. Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott expresses her solidarity with their fight for adequate healthcare provision, for improved legal access and an end to indefinite detention.

No More Deaths at Sea

On the sixth of February 2014, the Guardia Civil fired rubber bullets at African migrants trying to swim into the Spanish-controlled Moroccan city of Ceuta. At least 14 deaths were recorded. Four years later campaigners marched against the callous disregard for life at Europe’s borders. A Film by Gosia Juszczak & Darío Unai Cristóbal Pulido

Long Read: 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.