{"id":3929,"date":"2022-05-25T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/unequal-impacts-how-uk-immigration-law-and-policy-affected-migrants-experiences-of-the-covid-19-pandemic"},"modified":"2022-05-25T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:03:00","slug":"unequal-impacts-how-uk-immigration-law-and-policy-affected-migrants-experiences-of-the-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/unequal-impacts-how-uk-immigration-law-and-policy-affected-migrants-experiences-of-the-covid-19-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Unequal Impacts&#8221;: How UK immigration law and policy affected migrants&#039; experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Download the report<br \/>\nJoin us<br \/>\nExecutive Summary<br \/>\nReport summary<br \/>\nThis report explores how UK immigration policy, law and government decision-making have exacerbated the impact of Covid-19 on migrants, particularly those with insecure immigration status. It focuses on access to justice, Home Office applications, state\u00a0support, healthcare, and the asylum accommodation system, as well as immigration enforcement. Across all these areas, we highlight how the government\u2019s anti-migrant approach has exposed migrants to\u00a0increased risk from Covid-19, undermined public\u00a0health efforts and introduced greater dysfunctionality into an already-broken immigration system.<br \/>\nKey findings<br \/>\nAccess to justice  Covid-19 and the government\u2019s response have compounded existing barriers to justice for migrants in the UK. The legal system was already close to breaking point when the crisis began, after a decade of austerity and restrictive anti-migrant policies. The Legal Aid Agency&#038;rsqu&#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download the report Join us Executive Summary Report summary This report explores how UK immigration policy, law and government decision-making have exacerbated the impact of Covid-19 on migrants, particularly those with insecure immigration status. It focuses on access to justice, Home Office applications, state\u00a0support, healthcare, and the asylum accommodation system, as well as immigration enforcement.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}