Rainbow Migration, ‘”It’s like comparing night and day”‘, 2024
- Category: Other
- Source: NGOs
- Subject: Refugee/Asylum, LGBT+
- Place: United Kingdom
- Year: 2024
- URL: https://www.rainbowmigration.org.uk/news/its-like-comparing-night-and-day-community-based-alternatives-to-detention/
Rainbow Migration, ‘”It’s like comparing night and day”: community-based alternatives to detention’, Rainbow Migration, 2024
Abstract
Imagine a world in which people trying to make the UK their home were met with a supportive environment, not a hostile one. A world where people without immigration status were supported to understand their options and make informed decisions about their next steps, rather than being detained and threatened with removal.
This approach is not only possible, but tried and tested within the UK. Following a recommendation from Stephen Shaw’s second report on immigration detention in 2018, the Home Office commissioned a series of pilot projects to test community-based “alternatives to detention”, both of which have now concluded and been subject to an independent evaluation.