Immigration

Coastguard coordinates huge rescue operation to save migrants in Mediterranean, helping at least 6,000 to safety since Friday.

Amid feverish politicking over immigration in the election, the Asian residents of Alexandra Road, Slough, are having to come to terms with arrivals from eastern Europe, as Paraic O’Brien reports.

Channel 4 News debates immigration with voters from the towns of Peterborough and Wisbech. How has this thorny election issue affected their lives?

Ethelbert Road in Margate is a truly globalised community, where immigrants and local Brits live side by side. Paraic O’Brien spent a week there, exploring the tensions around immigration.

As a mass funeral for 24 drowned migrants takes place in Malta, European Union leaders gather for an emergency summit on how to tackle the rising number of migrants arriving in southern Europe.

In the past 48 hours at least five immigrants have been killed in the latest in a string of xenophobic attacks in Durban, South Africa. Most of the pictures are too graphic to show.

Surrounded by the fresh food they pick to send to supermarkets, but living in flimsy shacks, workers in Spain tell me how their dreams of better lives are crushed by the grim reality of exploitation.

Ukip says rescuing migrants off Europe “may actually be making matters worse”, while the Tories want to “dissuade migrants from making these perilous and illegal journeys in the first place”.

Krishnan Guru-Murthy takes an epic cycle ride through northern England, speaking to people who are passionate about politics – and also about not getting involved.

Ed Balls insists that he will buy a Labour immigration mug, despite attacks from within the party over its “shameful” message promising controls and restrictions.

Shocking footage obtained by Channel 4 News appears to show violence in the French port as migrants are beaten up by truck drivers in front of a patrolling security guard.

A Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seeker who claims to have suffered extensive torture before escaping to the UK has won a last minute reprieve just hours before he was due to be forcibly deported.

Nigel Farage sparks a Twitter row after calling to scrap “much of” race discrimination legislation in a Channel 4 documentary, due to be shown next week.