Record numbers of people are choosing to call the UK home, as net migration topped 500,000 for the first time in 2022. A large portion of this total comes from refugees of crisis in their home ...

An interactive map revealing the stories of refugees who fled Nazi anti-Semitism and persecution during the 20th Century has been launched. The online resource uses identity papers, diaries and ...

In 2019, the Office for National Statistics estimated there were around 48,000 people born in Syria residing in the UK – though not all would have arrived as refugees. That was up from around ...

The UK government this week introduced proposed legislation that it couldn’t say for certain complies with international law, its latest attempt to put a stop to migrant boats crossing the ...

H edi came to Britain as a refugee from Austria, escaping Nazi persecution. Hedi’s talk explores many themes such as: ...

Community support. The IRC's Healing Classrooms supports schools and educators to develop inclusive and nurturing learning spaces for refugee children.. Similarly, Healing Spaces supports wider ...

In recent years, we have seen an alarming trend of wealthy, destination countries seeking to close their doors to asylum seekers and refugees. The United Kingdom is no exception. At the same time ...

The 1951 Refugee Convention, an international treaty to which the UK is a party, expressly prohibits penalising asylum seekers and refugees on account of their irregular entry.

Some refugees will no longer be recognised in the UK as refugees at all. UK law will adopt its own narrow definition of who is a refugee by applying its own severely-restricted and wrong ...

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) offers services to support refugees and asylum seekers (with the right to work) into employment in the UK. This support includes one-to-one casework support ...