Register of Racism and Resistance (RRR)

‘AI’ tool could influence Home Office immigration decisions, critics say
11 November 24
Migrants’ rights campaigners call on the Home Office to withdraw its AI system, Identify and Prioritise Immigration Cases (IPIC), used to speed up decision-making on enforcement action, which is fed information on potential subjects including biometrics, ethnicity, criminal convictions and health. PI fears that officials will simply rubber-stamp the algorithm’s recommendations.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK, EU
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Death in UK immigration removal centre is the first believed to be linked to the drug spice
10 November 24
Serco, which manages Brook House immigration removal centre, circulates letters to detainees linking the death in his cell of a 26-year-old French national to drug use. Staff had warned in 2023 that such a death was likely.
Source: Observer
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Home Office seeks new chief to speed up deportations of failed asylum seekers and visa overstayers
8 November 24
The Home Office announces it is recruiting a Head of the National Returns Progression Command to accelerate the speed of deportations of refused asylum seekers and people who have overstayed their visas and to maximise the strategy of enforcement and deportations.
Source: Standard
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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UK asylum system retraumatises women fleeing sexual abuse, says report
7 November 24
A report by Rape Crisis England and Wales and Imkaan finds that women and girls fleeing rape and sexual abuse face being retraumatised in an asylum system in which abuses are compounded and repeated—in mixed-sex accommodation; from predatory staff and residents; due to poor living conditions and a lack of support; and through the scrutiny they face throughout the asylum process.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Italian government resumes migrant transfers to Albania amid rift with judiciary
4 November 24
The Italian government engages the naval ship Libra to transfer migrants seeking asylum in Italy to Albania for processing despite court rulings against the outsourcing scheme and a referral of a government decree on ‘safe countries’ to the European Court of Justice.
Source: Euractiv
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: Italy
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Tamils stranded on Diego Garcia for three years allowed to enter UK
4 November 24
Following legal proceedings, the UK government drops its opposition to allow the vast majority of Tamils who have been living in inhumane conditions on Diego Garcia since 2021 to travel to the UK. Future arrivals to the island are to be relocated to St Helena.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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EU citizen caught up in Home Office residency backlog forcibly removed from UK
1 November 24
Costa Koushiappis, a 39-year-old Greek Cypriot, is deported with 3 days’ notice despite a pending administrative review of the 2022 refusal of his EU pre-settled status, which the Home Office says may take 2 years to process. His solicitor accuses the Home Office of breaching the EU withdrawal agreement.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: EU
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France reinstates border checks as immigration policies tighten
1 November 24
France re-introduces border controls at all its land, sea and air borders, until at least April 2025, citing serious threats of terrorism, criminal networks facilitating irregular migration and rising violence by migrants.
Source: RFI
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: France
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Migrant dies in attempt to reach UK from France
30 October 24
A 28-year-old man, one of 15 people to fall from an overcrowded migrant boat off Hardelot, northern France, is declared dead after being airlifted to hospital.
Source: Dawn
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK, France
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Man dies in detention at immigration removal centre near Gatwick airport
27 October 24
A 26-year-old man dies at the Serco-run Brook House IRC near Gatwick airport. Medical Justice says an earlier inquiry found clinical safeguards in detention ‘dysfunctional’, with ongoing systemic failures and assurances of improvements in safety not honoured by the Home Office.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK, Ireland
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Man dies while trying to cross Channel to UK
27 October 24
A 40-year-old man dies of heart failure in a dinghy carrying 50 people as it deflates immediately after leaving the French coast for the UK.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Home Office continues to demand fees unlawfully charged for language tests
25 October 24
The Home Office seeks to rush through legislation to legalise a charge of up to £400 for language tests and qualification assessments, following the discovery that thousands of people applying for visas since 2008 were charged unlawfully, though fees continue to be demanded.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Transforming asylum accommodation
24 October 24
An IPPR report, Transforming asylum accommodation, condemns the conditions and costs of the current system and calls for ‘a re-imagined approach to asylum housing’.
Source: IPPR
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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French government orders displaced Ukrainians to give up subsidized accommodation
24 October 24
A local housing association in the Grand-Est region of France sends letters to dozens of Ukrainian refugees telling them that they must give up their sheltered accommodation on the grounds that they have not integrated.
Source: Le Monde
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: France
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Huge surge in refugee children as young as 14 treated as adults by UK
24 October 24
Evidence from the Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium, presented to an inquiry by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, shows that hundreds of children are being wrongly assessed as adults in a process that is causing further harm to an already traumatised group.
Source: National
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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