Ireland and Portugal have acted to protect asylum seekers and migrants. The UK has made a political choice not to do so, says Maya Goodfellow, author of Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats
A week after Priti Patel stood in the House of Commons and issued an apology for the Windrush scandal, Abanda was trying to figure out how to survive during the Covid-19 pandemic. “I haven’t seen anything addressed to us,” she says. Abanda is a refused asylum seeker who advocates for migrant rights. “I don’t think we exist.”
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