Our Legal Director Nicola Burgess tells the story of her client M, one of the child refugees forced to start a new life without their families after finding sanctuary in the UK M, his mum and younger brother had all been forced to flee their home in Eritrea for political reasons, and he was constantly…
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On 23 April 2018, JCWI and Liberty called for the appointment of an Independent Commission to review the workings of the Home Office and the legal framework of the ‘hostile environment’. Alongside the call, JCWI and Liberty have published a Dossier of Failure, detailing the need for an Independent Commission into the systematic failures which culminated…
Sophia arrived in the UK from Jamaica in 2002 and has lived here ever since. She came to join her husband who had legal status here. Her three children arrived in 2005, aged 10, 7 and 4. After the breakdown of her marriage, Sophia and her children lost their immigration status, while her ex-husband went…
JCWI’s Families Together campaign officer spoke to Nottinghamshire Live, which highlighted the story of a local woman who has had to leave her home in order to be with her husband because she earns below £18,600 a year. “What Amy and her family are going through is absolutely absurd. The fact that the government is…
JCWI’s legal policy director spoke to The Guardian about the Home Office staff placed in local council offices during interviews with destitute migrant families seeking emergency support for their families. Click here to read the article.
Satbir Singh and Open Democracy editor Charlotte Threipland looked at the toxic mix of factors that allowed the appalling treatment of the Windrush generation to go on for so long. “As a result of deliberate UK government policy, long-term British residents were ensnared by a Hostile Environment dragnet. This approach to immigration renders people who look…
Satbir Singh and Refugee Action’s Stephen Hale joined up to push for real change in the wake of the scandal of the British government’s treatment of the Windrush generation. “Britain has united in outrage this week at the appalling cruelty that has been shown to the Windrush generation. But we have been here before. And…
Eight months on from the uncovering of the Windrush scandal, our Chief Executive Satbir Singh wrote for the Metro newspaper on the radical change that is needed to ensure justice not just for the Windrush generation, but all those at risk because of the government’s policy of “blaming the foreign-born for everything.” Read the story…
Together with the Children’s Commissioner, JCWI prepared this report into the devastating impact family migration rules have on children. It found that upwards of 15,000 children were growing up in “Skype families,” separated from one of their parents because of the Minimum Income Requirement. The report details the psychological, physical and educational impact these rules…