The Stansted 15, peaceful protesters who grounded a deportation charter flight have been convicted of terror-related charges. This disproportionate response by the British state must be situated within a wave of criminalisation and…
In light of the recent "Windrush scandal", Kennetta Hammond Perry asks what aspects of British history are extolled, and which facets remain illegible in popular renditions of the Windrush narrative - and offers up alternative "usable…
Citizenship 'stripping' laws have expanded the idea of a failed citizen, a boundary shaped by racialised and Islamophobic 'moral panic'. May Robson examines what it means to be an illegal immigrant in Britain.
Eva Johanna Holmberg - a historian who studies travellers crossing borders in the seventeenth century - on being threatened with deportation as a European academic in the UK in 2017
As the Grenfell Tower inquiry begins its hearing amidst criticisms about the process from survivors and families, Simon Peplow reflects on the politics of participation in public inquiries since the 1980s.