On the creation of the UK’s ‘hostile environment’

Abstract

The indictment presented to the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal London Hearing in November 2018 on violations of the human rights of migrant and refugee peoples. It concentrates on the ways in which a ‘hostile environment’ has been created in the UK removing rights, enshrined in EU and international laws and conventions, to housing, health, livelihood, liberty, freedom of assembly, family and private life, freedom from inhuman and degrading treatment. Migrants and refugees with or without permission to be in the country are, the author argues, possessed of no rights but, at best, privileges that can be removed at any time.