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  • Thursday, 1 April, 2021
    FT Magazine
    How two decades of EU migration went into reverse

    Tens of thousands of foreign-born workers have left the UK. What does it mean for them, and for Britain?

  • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
    Patel faces ‘serious questions’ over putting migrants in barracks

    Home secretary’s housing of asylum seekers helped spread Covid, says chair of Commons committee

  • Wednesday, 24 March, 2021
    UK’s asylum shake-up lacks clarity and compassion, say critics

    Home secretary Priti Patel insists system will deter illegal migrants but lawyers fear it won’t work

  • Wednesday, 24 March, 2021
    Priti Patel insists UK’s new asylum system will comply with international law

    Refugee charities criticise move to discriminate against people who enter country illegally

  • Tuesday, 23 March, 2021
    Claims of Covid-driven migrant exodus from UK overstated, says ONS

    Tax data analysis shows number of EU citizens who have left is perhaps half that previously thought

  • Thursday, 18 March, 2021
    Critics round on UK’s ‘firm but fair’ asylum shake-up

    Gibraltar and Isle of Man deny reports they are being lined up as potential processing centres

  • Tuesday, 16 March, 2021
    The Big Read
    Brexit: the low-paid migrant workers ‘trapped’ on Britain’s farms

    Employers are setting demanding targets for labourers on the UK’s seasonal work scheme

  • Monday, 8 March, 2021
    Covid outbreak ‘inevitable’ among asylum seekers at barracks, says report

    Home Office put migrants in former military installations despite health warnings, inspectorate finds

  • Monday, 8 March, 2021
    Louise Lucas
    Life in the UK is not easy for former Hong Kong residents

    Those fleeing China’s crackdown face bureaucratic hurdles and high property prices

  • Promoted Content
  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    Visa-holders entering UK for invalid travel reasons, unions warn

    Officers confronted with arriving air passengers who intend to go shopping or visit friends

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    New UK fintech visa will struggle to attract specialists, experts warn

    Previous immigration schemes have either pulled in too many applicants or not enough

  • Friday, 26 February, 2021
    InterviewRishi Sunak
    Chancellor spots break in clouds after Brexit, Covid and battered finances

    Rishi Sunak tells FT he wants to start laying foundations for Britain’s future economy

  • Saturday, 20 February, 2021
    News in-depthUK agriculture
    UK flower growers hit by post-Brexit labour shortages

    Daffodil farmers warn millions of blooms will be left to rot because they cannot secure enough pickers

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    News in-depth
    How EU migrant exodus is reshaping communities across the UK

    Many have already left Lancashire city of Preston as Covid and Brexit hits employment

  • Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
    UK visa offer to Hong Kongers fails to help thousands wanting to flee

    Community groups say many people seeking to leave territory are having to claim asylum

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    Brexit
    UK au pairs under threat from new immigration rules

    Warning that affordable childcare system could be victim of post-Brexit arrangements

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    ‘Massive uncertainty’ over UK migration data amid pandemic

    Britain is ‘flying blind’, warns expert, after suspension of immigration survey as post-Brexit system is rolled out

  • Wednesday, 3 February, 2021
    Thousands risk legal limbo as EU settlement deadline beckons

    The government says scheme has been a success but campaigners fear European migrants will lose UK rights

  • Friday, 29 January, 2021
    Patel criticises asylum seekers after fire breaks out at former barracks

    Home secretary calls blaze ‘appalling’ after protests over conditions at site where many have coronavirus

  • Friday, 29 January, 2021
    Thousands of Hong Kongers granted UK residence ahead of visa scheme

    Families from territory have been allowed to settle in Britain since July

  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    Sarah O'Connor
    ‘Lazy’ Britons aren’t the reason for the UK’s migrant workforce

    Consumers will have to pay more for food if Brexit cuts the flow of workers

  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    News in-depthCoronavirus economic impact
    Foreign workers flee UK as pandemic and Brexit bite

    An estimated 1.3m have gone home, with hospitality and retail the sectors most heavily affected

  • Thursday, 21 January, 2021
    Chris Giles
    Mystery of the UK’s vanishing foreign-born workers

    Official statistics fail to capture the departure of eastern Europeans

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Coronavirus sparks exodus of foreign-born people from UK

    Up to 1.3m may have left in past 12 months, according to research that questions official data

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    Facebook Inc
    US accuses Facebook of illegally favouring immigrant workers

    Justice department lawsuit claims social media group discriminated against Americans in hiring

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