The mantra of “safe and legal routes” is regularly repeated by the government when justifying increasingly draconian legislation in an attempt to prevent refugees from travelling to the
Over and over again we hear that refugees should claim asylum in the first safe country the reach. There are variations on the theme. Genuine refugees claim asylum
Everyone agrees that the United Kingdom’s asylum system is broken. In this briefing we will take a look at the whole of the asylum process, from the numbers
This week is Refugee Week. On Free Movement we aim to communicate complex legal issues in immigration and asylum law in a clear way. Here we answer the
The government is right that the asylum backlog needs to be urgently addressed, but the Illegal Migration Bill will not tackle the backlog in any meaningful sense and
One of the changes to immigration law made by the government in response to the sharp increase in small boat crossings was the creation of a ten year route
