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The new arrivals

An examination of the lives refugees are leading as they settle in the UK and other big European nations

  • Falak and Adnan Batak

    'Life is good': Syrian family's new life in remote Welsh town

    The Batak family are rebuilding their lives thanks to the efforts of kind and determined residents
  • Afghan refugees Said Ghullam Norzai and his son Wali Khan in Derby in June 2017

    The refugees who gave up on Britain

    The long read: In the culmination of an award-winning 18-month project, the new arrivals, Kate Lyons traces an Afghan father and son’s harrowing journey to Britain – and the pressures that led them to flee all over again
  • Syrian refugees at a charity in London after they arrived from Calais to the UK via the Safe Passage legal route.

    The Kids of Calais, part two: waiting for asylum - The Story podcast

  • A child in the Calais refugee camp, France, in October 2016.

    The Kids of Calais, part one: family reunification - The Story podcast

  • 'The Germans sneeze loudly': refugees on their adopted homelands - video

    Living in Europe means not having to worry about safety like once before. Refugees living in UK, Spain, France and Germany tell whether reality met their expectations.

  • People leaving the Calais refugee camp on 24 October 2016

    Home Office faces court action over asylum children

    Government accused of systemic delays and poor treatment of minors ‘rescued’ from Calais
  • Heshmat Karimi, a trainee at the Refugee Canteen project in Hamburg.

    The Afghan cop who became a German nurse - and other refugee success stories

    German initiatives are equipping new arrivals with the skills to alleviate the country’s worker shortage
  • David Miliband at IRC headquarters, New York

    David Miliband calls for leadership on refugee resettlement in the EU

    Head of International Rescue Committee says the EU should increase its intake of refugees to 108,000 each year
  • Man walking.

    'We want to work': refugees tell France why UK is so attractive

    New arrivals in France lack rights and help in navigating minefield of bureaucracy, MPs are told
  • Kate Hendickson

    Abused and ignored: LGBTI asylum seekers let down by the system

  • An LGBT asylum seeker in Sheffield

    Protect LGBTI asylum seekers in Britain, private firms told

  • Asylum interview: 10 examples of absurdity from the Home Office

    Applying is no joke, but some of the questioning and grounds for refusal appear farcical
  • Lunar House, Croydon. London. Photograph by David Levene 29/11/17

    'A lottery': asylum system is unjust, say Home Office whistleblowers

    Three former staffers damn ‘cut and paste’ decisions and rushed, biased interviews resulting in unfair system
  • Zabrain struggled to prove his asylum claim in the UK

    'I thought she was an intern': when asylum interviews go wrong

    Two refugees tell their Home Office interview horror stories
  • Asylum seekers in Cara di Mineo

    'The camp is run by bad people': an asylum seeker's life in Sicily

    In an excerpt from Bordered Lives – How Europe fails refugees and migrants Hsiao-Hung Pai talks to Adedayo, who has been living in the Cara di Mineo camp for more than a year
  • Mohammed al-Mustafa

    MPs urge Home Office to rethink statelessness procedure

    Labour MPs say system is dysfunctional after 64 people granted protection in three years
  • Mohammed Al-Mustafa

    UK Home Office tells stateless man: go home

    Kafkaesque case sees man unable to stay in UK, but with no home country to return to
  • 2017 round-up refugees special : composite

    18 refugees, 18 countries – and their hopes for 2018

    There are now more refugees and IDPs than Brits or Californians. As a new year dawns, what are their hopes and fears?
  • Yasser Abdou

    Riches to rags: Detroit dad in Mediterranean asylum limbo

    Yassir Abdou, who had an American wife and a green card until four years ago, is now marooned and destitute in Sicily
  • Damilola Fowoshele and her daughter Rebecca

    'It's like family to me': the school feeding its poorest families

    Surrey Square primary in London provides meals - and even clothes - for pupils’ families most in need
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