"He (was) in this boat," the 27-year-old told Reuters in broken English. The 27 migrants drowned when their dinghy deflated as they made the dangerous crossing across some of the world's busiest shipping lanes. The bodies were first spotted by a fishing boat. So far, only one victim,...
Refugee – is someone whose claim to asylum has been accepted and they are allowed to stay in a country Illegal immigrant – these are people who try to enter a country illegally, without registering with the authorities. The asylum seeker definition leaves out people who have suffered and fear...
A baby and several young children were among a large group of migrants brought ashore in the UK on Monday after trying to cross the English Channel. A packed lifeboat was pictured arriving on a beach in Dungeness in Kent. While officials led passengers away, one woman was seen clutching a ...
Deaths in the Channel have now become troublingly familiar. We are no longer shocked, or even very surprised, when people die while trying to get from France to Britain in these unsuitable inflatable boats. But what happened today resonates on two levels. As humans, we should b...
“Once back in the Cabinet, Mr Raab was set to revive it *as part of the Government’s strategy to deal with the crisis of migrant small boats crossing the English Channel but it was again thrown in thrown into doubt after his resignation.” * The Bill of Rights I suppose all that ...
And Schools Minister Nick Gibb told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the UK will be using “boats to try and prevent people from leaving and from making that very dangerous crossing across the Channel”. A Home Office source did not rule out reports that ministers ...
"Today we removed people who came by small boat but had previously claimed asylum in other EU countries back to those EU countries," he said. Image:A group of people, thought to be migrants, crossing the Channel in a small boat
The concept of anchoring is associated with references to the different traditions, habits or activities that are situated in different spaces, which means that new social environments are created when crossing social boundaries. As a consequence, heterogeneous language is used at the intersection of ...