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Meet the Calais migrants, willing to risk their lives to reach the UK
It is the very visible arrival of desperate people in small boats across the Channel that has made the question of asylum more politically urgent.
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Fire at Lesbos refugee camp – the families left homeless again
Earlier this month the largest refugee camp in Europe on the island of Lesbos burnt to the ground – leaving more than 12,000 people homeless.
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Lesbos migrant camp fire leaves families sleeping on the streets
The Greek authorities have opened a temporary tent city for some of the thousands of people left homeless when fire destroyed the Moria refugee camp on Lesbos.
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Channel crossings: Tory MP says France is ‘trying to make their problem our problem’
Channel 4 News spoke to Labour Peer and campaigner for refugees and asylum seekers, Lord Alf Dubs and the Conservative MP Tim Loughton.
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Lockdown life even harder for those barred from benefits
Asylum seekers and people on student visas or spousal visas have no access to public funds, which is a condition of their residency.
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Afghan refugee who arrived in a dinghy now in pilot training
A teenager from Iran who arrived by dinghy on a Kent beach on Christmas day has won a place at college – and hopes to become an airline pilot.
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Trump suspends Mexican imports tariff in migrants deal
Donald Trump has suspended his threat to impose tariffs on Mexican imports after Mexico agreed to stem the flow of migrants to the United States.
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Kenyan rugby player facing deportation from the UK gets a temporary reprieve
Kenneth Macharia has spent two years fighting the Home Office, saying he fears persecution if goes back to Kenya where gay sex is illegal.
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Julian Assange arrested: what now for the WikiLeaks founder?
The Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is in custody tonight after being arrested for allegedly breaching his bail conditions.
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Zimbabwean citizen living in UK fears deportation
Zimbabwean citizen Marian Machekanyanga says she lives in fear of being sent back from her life in Sheffield to the country she left sixteen years ago in search of asylum, after she exposed government corruption under President Mugabe.
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Marian Machekanyanga fears for her life if she is returned to Zimbabwe
Human rights campaigners and immigration lawyers have raised concerns about the deportation of Zimbabwean citizens who fled to the UK during the regime of Robert Mugabe. Marian Machekanyanga worked for the government in Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe. After exposing government corruption, she says she feared for her life, fleeing to the UK 16 years ago in search of asylum…
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Refugee who fled war now aiming for the Olympics
He left everything behind when he fled the Syrian war. 24 year old Eid Aljazairili couldn’t even swim when he made the risky journey by boat across the Mediterranean – finally reaching the UK where he was granted asylum. He soon realised he had a passion – and rare gift – for swimming – and…
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Gay rugby player threatened with deportation wins temporary reprieve
A gay rugby team member has won a temporary reprieve after he was threatened with being sent back to Kenya. Kenneth Macharia, who’s a member of the Bristol Bisons – a rugby club which sets out to be inclusive to the whole LGBT community – claimed he would face persecution over his sexuality if he was returned.
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Khaled Hosseini on Sea Prayer: ‘I wanted to highlight this unimaginable despair, unfathomable desperation’
The photographs of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, whose body was washed up on a Turkish beach three years ago, are the story of Syria’s tragedy. And for the novelist Khaled Hosseini, there was only one way to make sense of it – by travelling to the camps to meet asylum seekers and writing about it.
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Refugee choir aims to sing communities together
Refugees and asylum seekers from across the UK have been taking part in a youth choir as part of efforts to try and bring communities together.