This week, faith leaders and more than 200 charities pushed new Prime Minister Andy Burnham for a fresh start on asylum policy, a Home Office asylum refusal built on what a judge suspects was “AI hallucinated” evidence exposed cracks in the system's own evidence base, and the Refugee Convention's 75th anniversary landed alongside protest, spectacle and a handful of quietly hopeful human stories. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn't, and what the sector can do with it.
This week, Andy Burnham's first days as prime minister exposed the gap between opposition rhetoric and governing reality on asylum, an FOI investigation revealed serious safety failures inside the accommodation system even as protest focused on where sites are located, and family reunion policy failures echoed across Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn't, and what the sector can do with it.
This week, Andy Burnham's first major act as prime minister-in-waiting was to back Shabana Mahmood's Immigration and Asylum Bill through its second reading, a High Court ruling on trafficking protections was quietly set aside, and opposition to military-site asylum accommodation hardened from Oxfordshire to North Yorkshire. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn't, and what the sector can do with it.
This week, the Immigration and Asylum Bill's human cost came into sharper focus ahead of Monday's Second Reading, opposition to military accommodation deepened from Halifax to Bicester, and a major investigation exposed the hate campaign now facing migration charities - including IMIX's own CEO. Our analysis of what the coverage got right, what it missed, and what the sector can do with it.
This week, the government's new Immigration and Asylum Bill combined a £10,000 repayment charge with a fresh community sponsorship scheme, local opposition to military accommodation deepened across three counties, and an anti-migrant film boosted by Elon Musk showed hostility being packaged as entertainment. Our analysis of what was covered, what wasn't, and what the sector can do with it.
How do journalists decide which refugee stories to cover? What makes a pitch stand out? This is the first in our new series where IMIX talks to journalists who cover migration and refugee issues - giving the sector a direct window into how newsrooms work. First up is Lin Taylor.
It’s been grim reading with newspaper headlines predicting ‘Windrush on steroids’ with concerns about vulnerable groups at risk of losing their right to remain in the UK and forced into the hostile environment overnight. So, let's investigate what we should be watching out for come the 1 July…
