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    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Special ReportInnovative Lawyers: Europe
      ‘Thousands of people need help’: lawyers fight for refugees

      Pro bono legal teams are finding creative ways to support vulnerable people worldwide, but the scale of the challenge is vast

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      Illustration of persons walking on a ‘bridge’ of paper sheets
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      FT live news
      Unions and Chevron agree to end strikes at Australian gas plants
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    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      US immigration
      Cross-border cargo trains disrupted as US strains to contain migrant rush

      Wave of crossings via Mexico puts pressure on authorities

    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      UK immigration
      UK public inquiry calls for maximum 28 days for immigration detention

      Ministers must learn lessons from ‘toxic culture’ at Sussex removal centre, report finds

      Detainees held at Brook House respond to demonstrators fighting against plans to send migrants to Rwanda in 2022
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Italian economy
      Italy turns to Kyrgyz shepherds to revive Sardinian farming

      Farming body seeks recruits from 6,000 miles away in fight to help rural economy

      Shepherds on horseback herd sheep along a road in the Suusamyr valley, Kyrgyzstan
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Poland
      Poland’s ruling party under pressure over broadening visa scandal

      Law and Justice acknowledges that hundreds of visas were sold illegally

      Law and Justice party leader Jarosław Kaczyński
    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      EU immigration
      Meloni calls for EU help to deal with surge in migrant arrivals

      European Commission pledges more manpower for registrations on Italian island of Lampedusa

      Migrants arrive on a ship to the harbour of Italian island of Lampedusa
    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      UK immigration
      Starmer prioritises control over unrealistic aim of ‘stopping the boats’

      Also in this newsletter, Rishi Sunak needs to rely on opposition party votes occasionally if he wants to make his mark

      A border force boat assists people travelling by small boat at sea
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      UK immigration
      Tories hit out at Labour plan for migration deal with the EU

      Sir Keir Starmer proposes returns agreement with the bloc under which UK would take in asylum seekers

      Montage of Sir Keir Starmer in front of migrants on a small boat
    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      UK politics
      Starmer vows to strike a UK migrants ‘return agreement’ with EU

      Conservatives warn deal will force Britain to accept asylum seekers from across the bloc

      A UK Border Force ship rescues migrants crossing the English Channel in a small boat
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Labour Party UK
      Starmer would seek EU deal on migrants to thwart smugglers

      Labour leader’s push to sharpen foreign policy profile to include meeting with Macron in Paris

      Sir Keir Starmer
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      EU immigration
      Germany suspends voluntary deal to take in migrants arriving in Italy

      Berlin says Rome is not meeting its obligations under the EU’s Dublin asylum rules

    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      UK immigration
      UK Home Office risks losing key source of funding for asylum seekers, says watchdog

      ICAI says new legislation could prevent department from using overseas aid money to support refugees in Britain

      A group of people thought to be migrants crossing the Channel in a small boat traveling from the coast of France and heading in the direction of Dover
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Poland closes biggest refugee centre for Ukrainians

      Authorities said Nadarzyn facility no longer needed because of ‘negligible’ numbers fleeing the war

      A refugee shelter in Nadarzyn, near Warsaw, Poland
    • Monday, 28 August, 2023
      News in-depthUK politics
      Conservative attacks on ‘lefty lawyers’ fuel hate mail and racist abuse

      UK immigration experts sound alarm about threatening atmosphere they blame the government for fostering

      Jacqueline McKenzie
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      UK immigration
      Cost of UK asylum system nearly doubles to £4bn a year

      New data underscores the challenge facing the government in getting to grips with irregular migration

      A group of people thought to be migrants in Dover, Kent
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      UK immigration
      UK fits small boat migrants with bar-coded wristbands

      Use of technology part of effort to address criticism of poor controls at processing centres, says government insider

      Migrants coming ashore in Kent
    • Monday, 21 August, 2023
      UK immigration
      Sunak’s policies will add to UK asylum backlog, think-tank warns

      Britain could be spending more than £6bn a year supporting migrants in ‘limbo’ under Illegal Migration Act, says IPPR

      Migrants rescued from a boat crossing the English Channel land on Dungeness beach in Kent, on Monday
    • Monday, 21 August, 2023
      Saudi Arabia
      Saudi forces accused of killing hundreds of Ethiopian migrants

      Human rights group says border guards at frontier with Yemen opened fire on unarmed civilians

      Ethiopian Tigray migrants stand in lines
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Rishi Sunak’s solutionism approach to small boats hits a wall

      Leaders and pundits are incentivised to claim there are fixes to problems, including the intractable issue of illegal migration

      Rishi Sunak speaks in Dover, England
    • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
      UK immigration
      UK charities call for safe routes for asylum seekers after channel deaths

      Number of illegal small boat crossings has increased since security measures were imposed at French ports

      A UK coastguard vessel brings migrants picked up at sea to shore in Dover
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      UK immigration
      Asylum seekers evacuated from UK barge over legionnaires’ disease fears

      Fresh setback to Sunak’s migration policy comes as 100,000 milestone reached for Channel crossings

      The Bibby Stockholm immigration barge in Portland
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      Middle East & North Africa
      More than half of young Arabs in Levant and north Africa pin hopes on emigrating

      Bleak economic outlook and high unemployment behind desire to leave home countries, survey finds

      Young Tunisians at an anti-government protest in Tunis in 2021
    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      News in-depthUS immigration
      New Yorkers’ compassion put to the test by migrant crisis

      Influx of asylum seekers poses challenge for a city with a liberal self-image and a legal obligation to provide shelter

      People gather last week outside the Roosevelt Hotel in central Manhattan, New York
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      EU immigration
      Forty-one migrants die in shipwreck off Italian coast

      Survivors stranded at sea for several days after boat that left Tunisia last week capsized

      The Italian coast guard pulls people from the water
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