Immigration Archives - The Bristol Cable

A morning with activists taking direct action against immigration enforcement

Hannah Vickers

Investigations

Revealed: NHS under fire for steep increase in charging migrants for healthcare

Matty Edwards

Ideas and Action

Ken Macharia not detained after asylum refusal

60 supporters accompanied him to his monthly check-in at Bridgewater police station.

Samar Khan

Edition 18

A community fights for asylum justice

Lorna Stephenson

Voices

Long read: Two years after Kamil Ahmad's murder, there is cause for hope and anger

Rebecca Yeo

Previously unseen interview with murdered asylum seeker Kamil Ahmad

In this short film, Kamil Ahmad speaks of his experiences as an asylum seeker in the UK four years before he was murdered.

Rebecca Yeo

Kamil Ahmad’s death ‘avoidable’, review finds

A safeguarding review into the murder of Kamil Ahmad says his death could have been avoided with better communication between services.

Hannah Vickers

Bristol activist could face life in prison for stopping deportation flight

Today is the first day of trial for 15 activists, including Bristol woman, who grounded deportation flight last year.

Alon Aviram

Plans to deport rough sleepers ruled illegal

Council plans to work with the government’s Immigration Enforcement to detain and remove European rough sleepers from the UK has been thrown into doubt.

Voices

Bristol's changing hostels in the age of Brexit

“In the ten years I’ve been working in the Backpackers, I’ve never experienced a situation like this.” Hostel workers on the impact of Brexit.

Rafel Fernandez Lopez

This is how many Bristol rough sleepers will be 'removed' from UK

Documents obtained by the Cable show the council plans for removing immigrant rough sleepers

Video: Behind the murder of Kamil Ahmad

The Cable spoke to Adil Jaifar, a translator and friend of Kamil, to find out how the disabled Kurdish asylum seeker fell through the gaps...

Zuzana Pohloudková and Alon Aviram

Revealed: Council already reporting homeless to Immigration Enforcement

Joint operations between the council and Immigration Enforcement have been ongoing for at least two years

From politics to potatoes: real views and stories from Bristol refugees and asylum seekers

From politics to potatoes: real views and stories from Bristol refugees and asylum seekers. People listened to the recordings while looking at the objects the...

Bristol Free Voice

A never-ending journey

What can history teach us about how we got here and where we go next? The Journey to Justice project aims to find out by...

Koel Mukherjee and Lorna Stephenson

Council to work with immigration enforcement to deport rough sleepers

New funding targets individuals for detention.

A picture of Somalis in Bristol

An intimate look at one of Bristol’s biggest communities.

Kirsty Mackay

Refugee return policy "an insult to the Geneva Convention"

There is anger in Bristol at what is being seen as yet another attack on refugees in the UK.

Koel Mukherjee

Voices

Pride against all odds

A culture of disbelief towards LGBT asylum seekers means the safety and acceptance provided by support groups like Bristol Pride Without Borders is vital.

Amani Omejar

Legal aid cuts keeping refugee families apart

A systemic squeeze is making it far harder for people fleeing violence and oppression to reunite with loved ones.

Koel Mukherjee

Features

Bristol projects breaking down borders

What do Bristolian social workers, herbalists, and circus performers have in common? Using their skills to to provide direct aid to refugees, in border zones...

Amani Omejar

City

Not business as usual

Bristol’s small and medium-sized business sector is ethnically diverse – but BME-led businesses face barriers to growth and success. Could 2017 be the year when the city finally starts to celebrate its diverse business community instead?

Lorna Stephenson

Institutional racism in one graph?

Why are Britain’s own citizens proving so interesting to Immigration Enforcement officials?