3 d. ago Europe’s New Faces review – a punishing immersion in the migrant journey

A four-hour documentary observes life in a Paris squat and perilous Mediterranean crossings – but its non-narrative structure tests the limits of endurance and empathyEgyptian-American film-maker Sam Abbas’s experimental documentary was made over four years and shows footage of African and South Asian immigrants making the treacherous journey up through Libya and across the Mediterranean to a Parisian squat. That’s a misleadingly linear description of the film; it’s actually cleaved into two parts which would seem back to front if we were following the stories of specific people. The first section observes life in the squat where the residents support each other as they face eviction threats and the bureaucracy of asylum-seeking, while the second part looks on as other people make the rough sea passage. Time is also spent aboard boats run by organisations such as Doctors Without Borders who seek to help the migrants.All that might make this sound like any number of 21st-century docu...

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5 d. ago Racist offences in Scotland on the rise and account for 60 per cent of all hate crimes

The latest data comes as anti-migrant protests grow, with many hotels co-opted by the Home Office into housing people seeking asylum.

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8 d. ago Revealed: How people traffickers are using videos of innocent young British women to entice asylum seekers to the UK

Promotional clips of women posted without their consent are being used by criminal gangs to advertise their services providing migration routes to the UK and Europe, Daily Mail has found.

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9 d. ago Asylum system delays and backlogs wasted taxpayers’ money – watchdog

The NAO found the current cost of supporting people seeking asylum is “disproportionately high” and totalled around £4.9 billion for 2024-25.

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1 week ago 'Why is nobody helping me?': How schoolgirl, 15, dragged from a park and raped by two Afghan asylum seekers cried out to 'so many people' to be saved

Horrific details of the victim's ordeal were revealed in court as Jan Jahanzeb and Israr Niazal, both 17, were jailed for the attack in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

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1 week ago UK asylum policy causes more violence and deaths, say rights groups

Home Office drive to stop small boats crossing Channel is handing more power to people smugglers, report findsThe UK’s policy to stop asylum seekers from crossing the Channel in small boats has led to an increase in violence, deaths and smuggler control, but has not deterred arrivals, according to a report by human rights organisations.The 176-page report from Humans for Rights Network, includes contributions from 17 refugee and human rights organisations operating in northern France and six in the UK. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers are racist says John Swinney

"Many of the people who are participating in these protests against the asylum seeker hotels are people who are spreading racist hate in our country."

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3 w. ago Islamist terror suspect questioned over Sri Lankan bombings which killed 269 people seeks asylum in Britain

The asylum seeker, from Sri Lanka, was held over allegations that he was involved in the Easter Sunday bombings in April 2019, which killed 269 including eight Brits.

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