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The UK Home Office hostile environment policy is a set of administrative and legislative measures designed to make staying in the United Kingdom as difficult as possible for people without leave to remain, in the hope that they may "voluntarily leave".[1][2][3][4][5] The Home Office policy was first announced in 2012 under the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition.[6] The policy was widely seen as being part of a strategy of reducing UK immigration figures to the levels promised in the 2010 Conservative Party Election Manifesto.[7][8][9]
The policy has been cited as one of the harshest immigration policies in the history of the United Kingdom, and has been widely criticised as inhumane, ineffective, and unlawful.[10][11] The United Nations Human Rights Council has stated that the policy has fostered xenophobia within the UK, while the Equality and Human Rights Commission has found that the policy broke equalities law.[12][13]
It has notably led to significant issues with the Windrush generation and other Commonwealth citizens being deported after not being able to prove their right to remain in the UK, despite being guaranteed that right.[14] The resulting Windrush scandal led to the resignation of Amber Rudd as Home Secretary, on 29 April 2018, and the appointment of Sajid Javid as her successor.[15][16][17]
- ^ Hill, Amelia (28 November 2017). "'Hostile environment': the hardline Home Office policy tearing families apart". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ^ "How Theresa May's "hostile environment" created an underworld". Newstatesman.com. 19 December 2017. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ^ "Inspection report of hostile environment measures, October 2016 - GOV.UK". Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ^ Letters (15 April 2018). "A Home Office humanity test | Letters". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ^ Channel 4 News (20 May 2018), Highly-skilled migrants told to leave UK under 'hostile environment' policy, retrieved 2018-05-20
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Kirkup, James (25 May 2012). "Theresa May interview: 'We're going to give illegal migrants a really hostile reception'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
- ^ Hill, Amelia (28 November 2017). "'Hostile environment': the hardline Home Office policy tearing families apart". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ^ "The Observer view on the UK's increasingly harsh immigration policy | Observer editorial". The Guardian. 15 April 2018. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
- ^ "What is the 'hostile environment' policy?". BBC News. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
- ^ "Hostile environment: The UK government's draconian immigration policy explained".
- ^ "The hostile environment is indefensible. Now we know it's unlawful too | Satbir Singh". TheGuardian.com. 25 November 2020.
- ^ "Austerity measures and hostile environment 'entrenching racism' in UK, says UN". Independent.co.uk. 15 June 2019.
- ^ "Home Office broke equalities law with hostile environment measures". TheGuardian.com. 25 November 2020.
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:2was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Grierson, Jamie (25 May 2018). "Number of Windrush cases passes 5,000". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ McFadyen, Gillian (1 May 2018). "Home Office routinely disbelieves people – even those claiming asylum from persecution". The Conversation. Retrieved 2018-05-28.
- ^ Syal, Rajeev (10 June 2018). "Theresa May defends UK government's Windrush response". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-06-10.
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