Kate Lyons
The New Arrivals, The Guardian
The New Arrivals project sought to understand the lives of the large numbers of refugees and migrants trying to build new lives in the UK. The project investigated the string of injustices facing newcomers to Britain, from the kafkaesque asylum process, the boredom and stress of limbo, the nature of life on £37 a week, and the inevitable connections between refugees and homelessness.
It has already unearthed several scoops: the scandal of clustering asylum seekers in poor towns, the travesty of the Home Office interview process, the failure to prepare properly for Syrian children arriving, and – the saddest revelation of all: children forced into homelessness by bureaucracy.
- Most refugees sent to poorest parts of Britain (The Guardian)
- They left Afghanistan a family of nine. They arrived in Britain a family of 2 (The Guardian)
- How do you live on £37 a week? (The Guardian)
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- We slept on the buses – Britain’s homeless children
- Then the shooting started: the Afghan family rejected by Britain
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- Mobin’s story
- Wanted: Syrian family for Welsh village
