Asylum Welcome rejects Suella Braverman’s unfounded claims regarding gender and sexuality as illegitimate grounds to claim asylum in the UK. Braverman claims that "simply being gay, or a woman, and fearful of discrimination in your country of origin" is no longer a good enough basis on which to be granted refugee
By Hallam Tuck 'Under the Home Office, and its contractor G4S, Brooke House was not sufficiently decent, secure, or caring for detained people or its staff. An environment flourished in which unacceptable treatment became more likely.’ Kate Eves, Chair of the Brook House Inquiry. The Brook House Inquiry report published
By Hari Reed, Policy & Advocacy Coordinator We know that the Illegal Migration Bill completed its journey through Parliament late on Monday 17th July and became an Act of Parliament on Thursday 20th July. We know that the international community is looking on in disbelief, afraid of the knock-on
By Hajar Zainuddin, Advocacy Volunteer, and Tamara Kurzova, Ukraine Community Liaison Officer On the 24th of February 2022, Russian forces invaded Kyiv, devastating lives and displacing millions of innocent civilians. The UK responded by setting up the ‘Homes for Ukraine’ scheme. Under this scheme, Ukrainians can live, work and have
Asylum Welcome is supporting a growing number of asylum seekers in temporary hotel accommodation in Oxfordshire. These hotels have been visited by far-right activists, who have filmed asylum seekers, advertised the location of the hotels, and made them feel unwelcome. As Friday's disgraceful attack on asylum accommodation in Knowsley shows, the nature of hotel
Help us reach 1000 signatures! My name is Allan. I am a father, a carer for social services, and a refugee, and in 2014 I was detained at Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre. I am one of the thousands of people who were detained at Campsfield House in Kidlington, Oxfordshire between 1993
By Tiger Hills, Advocacy Volunteer Over the course of a year in which 45,756 people crossed the channel in unsafe vessels, there was rarely a break in coverage of these small boat crossings. The issue has been at the top of the agenda all year, for successive prime ministers and
Content by Nadia Kashoo / Image by Slava Kosteniuk What is the Rwanda Plan? On the 19th of December 2022, the High Court ruled that the UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is legal. The Rwanda plan is an immigration policy designed to send those identified as ‘illegal
Content by Tiger Hills / Image by Slava Kosteniuk Reporting by RAMFEL reminds us how our immigration system continues to be ‘hostile’ for migrants even after they gain entry to the UK and begin to re-establish their lives. The UK Home Office introduced its ‘hostile environment’ policy in the 2014
By Iman Hakimi, Comms and Advocacy Volunteer To close Refugee Week 2022, Asylum Welcome partnered with the Oxford Festival of the Arts to host ‘Cultures, Crossings, and Communities’, an All-Day Bazaar at Magdalen College School. Festivities were followed by a panel discussion chaired by BBC political correspondent Rob Watson, with local councillors and
