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Glasgow welcome: campaigners call for Scottish alternative to Patel’s ‘anti-refugee’ bill
Glasgow should restart the refugee dispersal scheme to stop the Home Office from introducing asylum reception centres in barracks and disused oil rigs, claim campaigners.
Emails reveal Scottish ministers snubbed by Priti Patel over immigration raid
A series of urgent emails from the heart of the Scottish Government on the day of a Home Office immigration raid in Glasgow’s Pollokshields have laid bare growing tensions between the two administrations.
Poverty tsar calls for Home Office accountability over asylum support crisis
The chair of Scotland’s poverty and inequality commission has called for the Home Office to be held to account for leaving aslylum seekers without food or money.
Children’s commissioner calls for ‘urgent review’ of asylum mother and baby unit
Scotland’s Children and Young People’s Commissioner has written to the Home Office's accommodation provider, calling for an “urgent review" of a Glasgow mother and baby unit for asylum seekers.
Refugee campaigners warn dawn raids must not become a ‘de facto eviction’ tactic
Activists fear the controversial practice, understood to have been discontinued after sustained campaigning, is indicative of new tougher immigration policies proposed by the Home Office.
Hundreds of asylum seekers still housed in hotels
Almost 400 asylum seekers are still being housed in budget Glasgow hotels rooms by Home Office contractor Mears and living on just over £1 per day.
Concerns raised over ‘cramped and stressful’ asylum unit for mothers and babies
Concerns have been raised about a Glasgow-based unit for asylum seeking mothers and their babies.
‘All I could see was water’: Asylum journeys across the channel
Asylum seekers explain what it's really like to attempt to cross the Channel from France in an overcrowded rubber boat.
Asylum in crisis: stories from inside the ‘broken system’
How a network of grassroots organisations are trying to catch people at risk of falling through the cracks in the UK asylum system.
