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Work It Out: Advancing Migrant Workers' Rights, is a report published in July 2024 which examines how restrictions on migrant workers’ rights fuel exploitation and undermine migrants’ safety and dignity at work.
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Some use the term “Hostile Environment” to describe all policies which make life difficult for migrants living in the UK - treating them as less deserving of dignity and humanity than British citizens.
"Passport Please: The impact of the Right to Rent checks on migrants and ethnic minorities in England", is a JCWI report published in February 2017, based on research into the Right to Rent scheme, cornerstone Hostile Environment policy.
"We Also Want To Be Safe": Undocumented migrants facing COVID in a Hostile Environment, is a report published in January 2022, which explores undocumented migrants’ experiences of the COVID pandemic.
We Are Here is a piece of research produced in 2021 that seeks to better understand the realities of life for undocumented migrants in the UK today. It explores how people become undocumented, and how precarity is produced through the structures of the system itself.
The ‘Windrush’ generation are those who arrived in the UK from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1973. Many took up jobs in the nascent NHS and other sectors affected by Britain’s post-war labour shortage.
The so-called ‘Illegal Migration Bill’ is an extraordinarily dangerous piece of legislation which flies in the face of international human rights law and will have a devastating impact on people seeking safety in the UK.