Amnesty has welcomed a UK government extension of the pilot scheme offering assistance to women with insecure immigration status who are victims of violence.

In times of exploding budget deficits and unemployment figures, migrants are often used as scapegoats for all the ailings and failings of society, says Annegret Kapp. But the churches are responding boldly to the call to combat fear and prejudice.

A three-year-old Iranian child living in Britain is reported to have eaten hardly anything for two weeks after being traumatised by a raid on her home by UK immigration officials.

In a challenge to the arguments being put forward by Lord Carey, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said that those worried that migration affecting ‘British identity’ demonstrate ‘confusion’.