Politics policy and research

This briefing explains how the UK’s deterrence‑focused asylum policy harms refugees, undermines international law, and neglects shared global responsibility for asylum.

Letter urging the Scottish government to minimise the negative impact of Prevent on human rights in Scotland

This briefing argues that to truly break from its predecessor’s costly asylum policy, the UK Government must repeal the legislation that underpins it and explains which laws should be removed and why.

This briefing explains these five proposals and how they would contribute to fairness and efficiency. It also explains how fairness and efficiency are mutually dependent.

This submission draws attention to wider Government policy, including the Illegal Migration Bill, and how it is inconsistent with ambitions of securing efficiency within the UK's asylum system.

This submission focuses on Article 98 (duty to render assistance) of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

This submission identifies a group of young British people whose marginalisation and vulnerability is gravely exaggerated by barriers to their rights to British citizenship.

Amnesty's submission to the Public Bill Committee considers the wider implications for the UK's immigration system of ending EU free movement.

This submission aims to emphasise the need for a perspective that recognises integration as a thing to be achieved within and among communities rather than something to be done by or to refugees.

Joint Migrant Voice and Amnesty UK Submission to House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee on Family Migration

Amnesty UK Submission to Home Affairs Committee on Human Trafficking

Amnesty International UK Submission to the Data Protection Bill Public Bill Committee (immigration exemption)

The submission sets out Amnesty's opposition to that in principle and practice, and identifies serious misunderstandings that underpin the arguments currently advanced in favour of clause 2.

The submission sets out information on the nationality rights of people affected by the Windrush scandal in response to oral evidence given to the Committee concerning these rights.

This submission explains how the UK’s routine use of immigration detention breaches international human rights law and sets out recommendations to ensure detention is used only as a last resort.

This is a submission from November 2017 to the Home Affairs Select Committee inquiry on delivery of Brexit: immigration.

This resource contains a collection of short briefings on specific issues within the scope of the Refugee and Migration Rights programme.

This is a submission to the Home Affairs Select Committee for the Committee's inquiry into Channel Crossings.

This is a submission to the Home Affairs Select Committee for the Committee's inquiry into Channel Crossings.

This submission makes general observations on the UK's immigration system, with some further specific observations concerning social integration, forced migration, and children.