Asylum seekers

Today's Big Question European leaders to look at updating the 75-year-old treaty to help tackle the continent’s migrant wave

By The Week UK Published 10 December 25

The Explainer Using hotels to house asylum seekers has proved extremely unpopular. Why, and what can the government do about it?

By The Week UK Published 16 November 25

The Explainer Refugees lose automatic right to bring family over and must ‘earn’ indefinite right to remain

By Abby Wilson Published 8 October 25

Today's Big Question Fall in migrant crossings won’t head off tougher immigration clampdowns

By Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week UK Published 1 October 25

Talking Point With calls now coming from Labour grandees as well as Nigel Farage and the Tories, departure from the ECHR 'is starting to feel inevitable'

By The Week UK Published 6 September 25

The Explainer Government vows 'nationwide blitz' on illicit workforce believed to number in the hundreds of thousands

By The Week UK Published 11 July 25

Speed Read The president violated federal law by shutting down the US-Mexico border to asylum seekers, said the ruling

By Peter Weber, The Week US Published 3 July 25

Feature Trump welcomes white Afrikaner farmers while shutting down the asylum program for non-white refugees

By The Week US Published 28 May 25

Today's Big Question PM lays out plan to tackle migration gangs like international terrorism, with cooperation across countries and enhanced police powers

By Sorcha Bradley, The Week UK Published 31 March 25

Talking Point European countries rapidly froze asylum claims after Assad's fall but Syrian refugees may have reason not to rush home

By Richard Windsor, The Week UK Published 20 December 24

Talking Point The controversial approach is potentially 'game-changing'

By The Week UK Published 27 October 24

Under the Radar 'Quid pro quo' recruitment offer condemned as unethical as Israel seeks to address shortage of soldiers

By The Week Staff Published 18 September 24