The ‘hostile environment’ – the anti-migrant policy announced by then-Home Secretary Theresa May in 2012 – has extended border policing into universities, healthcare, schools, and other sectors, forcing workers in those sectors to enforce immigration policy.
Within higher education, international students and staff now face regular passport checks, and an obligation to report their exact whereabouts daily or weekly.
Unis Resist Border Controls (URBC) is a national campaign made up of British, EU, non-EU, migrant students, lecturers and university workers opposed to Home Office surveillance and border controls on UK campuses.
Advocating for free movement and free education, in the belief that all migrants matter, and that borders kill knowledge, URBC has been working to resist these increasingly draconian measures.
We are joined this month by Sanaz Raji and Caoimhe Mader McGuinness, from URBC, to talk about the impact of border controls in higher education.
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