Immigration Follow

No sooner has the general election campaign begun than a great lie about immigration has swamped the news headlines.

The birth of the Tory immigration-jobs lie tells an interesting story about the manipulation of the media.

Capitalism needs workers to survive – but the bosses hate paying for them.

"I can understand why a family here committed suicide. Think about how our lives waste away while we sit and wait in fear," a woman from Pakistan told me.

The tragic suicide of three Russian asylum seekers in Glasgow has shone a light on the appalling conditions faced by many refugees.

Some 80 people demonstrated outside the UK Border Agency offices in Govan, Glasgow, yesterday after the deaths of three asylum seekers on Sunday. Up to 300 people joined a commemoration in the evening by the Red Road flats where the three died.

Everything is changing. Many people worry that we’re "losing the British way of life".

For many people it is common sense that migrant workers drive down wages.

Politicians and the right wing press have unleashed a torrent of abuse against immigrants.

Women held in Yarl’s Wood asylum detention centre were subjected to a brutal lockdown on Monday.

Women in Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre have been on hunger strike since Friday of last week against their treatment in the centre. The detention centre is used to hold people before they are forcibly removed from Britain.

In the face of the economic crisis, many politicians are blaming migrant workers. But what is the truth behind the racist rhetoric, asks Jane Hardy.