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The right wing mayor of Calais, northern France, has been demanding the British government show it isn’t “soft” on immigration.

At least 30 detainees rose up at Morton Hall immigration detention centre in Lincolnshire last Saturday, after the death of an inmate. 

Some 35 Afghan Sikh migrants were discovered inside a cargo container in Tilbury docks, Essex, last Saturday. 

Amal Azzudin, one of the original 'Glasgow Girls' who stopped their friend’s deportation, spoke to Socialist Worker about the BBC's new musical adaptation of their story

Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre near Bedford faces new allegations of sexual harassment and neglect.

Refugee organisation Rapar and the Syrian Rethink Rebuild Society have launched a campaign against HSBC bank’s “systematic targeting” of Syrian nationals.

Brief news shorts on a swindling academy school head, abuse at Yarls Wood refugee prison, the IPCC, and SNP government voting down the living wage

Supporters gathered outside Manjeet Kaur’s appeal against deportation in Manchester on Wednesday of last week. Around 35 people joined the lobby.

Christine Case, a 40 year old woman from Jamaica, died last Sunday while detained at Yarl’s Wood “immigration removal centre” near Bedford. Survivors of Yarl's Wood tell Socialist Worker about their experience and why all refugee prisons must be shut down.

The government and UK Border Agency’s treatment of asylum seekers is appalling—but campaigns give people confidence. Refugee Manjeet Kaur explains why to Ken Olende

Armed police and locals with machetes, pipes, sticks and stones have attacked asylum seekers in Australia’s offshore detention centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Florian Wilde reports on how a broad movement for residency rights for refugees has combined with a fight for housing and public space in the city – and how a violent state crackdown led to rioting in parts of the city last month.