A new European Social Survey (ESS) report finds that, whilst Europeans have become slightly more favourable towards migrants from the same racial or ethnic group, they have become less positive about migrants from poorer countries outside Europe. Key findings Of the 19 countries where data was also collected in 2002/03, only Austrians and those from…

The cost of applying for citizenship in the UK is too high, unfair, and risks undoing the work of integration, General Synod was told at the annual gathering of the Church of England’s top decision-making body. The Synod debate highlighted the issues faced by those with indefinite leave to remain in the UK who face…

Refugee Action has launched a campaign report Slipping Through the Cracks: how Britain’s asylum system fails the most vulnerable. Analysing 315 cases of people applying for section 98 and section 95 support over the past year, the charity concludes that appalling Home Office failures are leaving people homeless and hungry. The study of these files from…