Migration Policy Unit

Migration Policy Unit

Our journey to build a fairer immigration system

The Migration Policy Unit is working with organisations in the migrants’ rights sector to provide policy analysis and advice on issues related to immigration and integration.

Through research, engagement and convening, we aim to work in collaboration with others to deliver a fairer and more just immigration system.

Latest

  1. A photograph of part of the Plymouth coastline on a bright sunny day. A row of large white hotels beneath a blue sky.

    Community cohesion and asylum accommodation: Understanding local perspectives

    Exploring why asylum hotels have generated different responses across the country, and what conditions support cohesion within communities.
  2. The Home Office building in London

    Far from settled: The government’s ‘earned settlement’ consultation

    How long should people have to wait until they can permanently settle in the UK? This is the core question underpinning the Home Office’s ‘earned settlement’ policy, currently out for consultation.
  3. The Home Office building in London

    A ‘paradigm shift’ in asylum and immigration policy?

    In 2019, a package of asylum reforms known as the ‘paradigm shift’ was passed by a broad party consensus in the Danish parliament.
  4. A woman with long dark hair wearing a woolly hat puts her arm around her small son who is holding a teddybear. They're in a community centre in front of boxes of charitable donations

    Making the Child Poverty Strategy work for migrant families

    If we are serious about tackling child poverty, we cannot ignore the children of migrant families.

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