Staff may take industrial action over Priti Patel’s ‘reprehensible’ plan to turn back refugees, says PCS unionBorder Force officials could strike over Priti Patel’s “morally reprehensible” plans to turn back dinghies in the Channel, a union has said.Th…
After rightwing attacks on rescues, UK lifeboat charity has record fundraising year
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has had ‘significant’ increase in annual donations after it went to the aid of asylum seekersThe Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is on course for the highest annual fundraising total in its near 200-ye…
At least 13 dead after third migrant boat in three days sinks in Greek waters
People still missing despite major rescue effort as smugglers switch to more perilous route from TurkeyAt least 13 people have died after a migrant boat capsized in the Aegean Sea late Friday, bringing to at least 27 the combined death toll from three …
Tagging UK asylum seekers: another Patel idea destined to fail?
Despite a string of measures intended to cut numbers, more than 27,000 crossed the Channel in small boats this yearThe home secretary, Priti Patel, has repeatedly promised to curb the number of people arriving on UK shores in small boats by making this…
Priti Patel’s plan to offshore refugees is costly, wrong and doomed to fail | David Davis
The home secretary’s proposal won’t stop asylum seekers trying to reach the UK. Creating safe legal routes is the solutionHow do we put a stop to the Channel crossings? There is no doubt that our relationship with France is pivotal. I’m not naive about…
Dunkirk’s camps – in pictures
Guardian photographer David Levene visited northern France after twenty-seven people drowned in the Channel last week as they attempted to make the perilous crossing from France to Britain across busy shipping lanes in a dinghy that deflated in the ope…
Twenty-seven dead in the icy Channel. This must be the spur for change | Gaby Hinsliff
No one would attempt a crossing in the flimsiest of boats if they had a better option. Now our job is to provide them with oneIt was the kind of boat, a French politician said, that you blow up like a paddling pool.Not much more than a toy, of the kind…
Stopping dangerous Channel crossings: what experts and campaigners say
Analysis: From overhauling the asylum system to simply taking what refugees say seriously, some ideas to stop the small boatsAmid a rising number of small boats crossing the Channel, culminating in tragedy on Wednesday, campaigners and experts have pro…
Aid workers say Mediterranean a ‘liquid graveyard’ after 75 feared dead off Libya
People smugglers are putting hundreds to sea this autumn despite stormy weatherMore than 75 people are feared dead after their boat capsized in stormy seas off the coast of Libya while attempting to reach Europe in one of the deadliest shipwrecks this …
“I know that my only chance now is to be reclassified”
“The Stateless Person’s Tale” & “The Arriver’s Tale,” as told to Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah (previously). “Delia’s Return: The Migration and Deportation of an Unaccompanied Child” by Lauren Heidbrink, Delia, and Gabriela Afable (American Anth…