Immigration Nation

As benefits are tightened for migrants entering the UK, are Roma migrants being singled out unfairly by the government?

The political debate on immigration is never far from the headlines, but how do those living in places with few migrants feel about the issue? Fatima Manji visited Redcar and Cleveland to find out.

Net migration into the UK rises for the first time in two years. Net migration – the difference between those coming to live in the UK and those emigrating – rose to 182,000 from 167,000.

Being an immigrant is like being the youngest child, writes Jamal Osman. You might be the weakest member in your newly adopted family, but you are often blamed for anything that goes wrong.

Two-thirds of responses to the government’s “go home” vans campaign were hoaxes, a Home Office report says, as it claims 60 illegal immigrants have left the UK because of the initiative, saving £1m.

An estimated 200,000 Roma migrants are living in Britain, new research shared exclusively with Channel 4 News reveals.

We should be addressing the endemic poverty of Roma people, not trying to boost stereotypes that portray the community as thieves, Isabel Fonseca, author of ‘Bury Me Standing’ tells Channel 4 News.

A protest has been held in London’s Chinatown over raids by the UK Border Agency looking for illegal immigrants. Shopkeepers closed for two hours in solidarity with those who had been investigated.

Investigations are underway into a fire at Campsfield immigration centre in Oxford, that left two men in hospital. Amateur video shows emergency services rushing to the scene on Friday night.

An investigation is underway to try and determine the cause of a fire at an immigration detention centre near Oxford which left two people in hospital and resulted in detainees being moved.

A government advertising campaign that used billboards on vans to tell illegal immigrants to “go home” has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for using misleading statistics.

Ukip leader Nigel Farage says his party is opposed to racism and extremism, following Channel 4 News’s revelation that teachers at his old school accused him of being “racist” and “fascist”.

Ahead of a Tory MP-led Commons debate on new family migration rules, Channel 4 News speaks to a family divided across the Atlantic – and a mother forced to miss her son’s first day at school.

The number of Romanians and Bulgarians working in the UK has risen by more than a quarter in three months, official figures reveal.

Labour sets its sights on Tesco’s employment practices, accusing the supermarket giant of employing cheap workers from eastern Europe, in a speech attacking “unscrupulous employers”.