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What Does it Mean to Belong? Lived Experience Reflections on Earned Settlement

Immigration, Lived Experience, NRPF, Westminster /

What Does it Mean to Belong? Lived Experience Reflections on Earned Settlement Proposals For many of us, (members of the NRNE Lived Experience Group), living in North East Scotland, belonging is not something that begins when a settlement application is approved. It happens every day through our relationships, work, families, and participation in community life.

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What Does the Data Say? Insight into the Home Office Immigration System Statistics

Consultation, Immigration, money debt and employment, NRPF, Policy, Research, Westminster /

What Does the Data Say? Insight into the Home Office Immigration System Statistics Release (YE June 2026) Our briefing pulls together the latest Home Office immigration statistics and breaks down what they mean for the asylum system as a whole, for Scotland, and with a particular focus on the North East. We’re planning to make

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Employment Support for the Excluded: Our Submission to the Work and Pensions Committee

Consultation, Immigration, money debt and employment, NRPF, Policy, Research, Westminster /

Employment Support for the Excluded Our Submission to the Work and Pensions Committee On the 31st of August, we submitted to the Work and Pensions Committee’s consultation: ‘Local delivery of employment support‘. This presented us with the opportunity to discuss at length how migrants with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) are disadvantaged in terms

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Scrutinising the Immigration and Asylum Bill: Our Submission to the JCHR

Asylum, Consultation, Immigration, NRPF, Policy, Research, Westminster /

Scrutinising the Immigration and Asylum Bill Our Submission to the Human Rights (Joint Committee) On the 1st of September 2026, we submitted formal evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights’ scrutiny of the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026. In this submission we set out why we do not consider the Bill compatible with the

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No Recourse to Public Facts: NRPF, The Media, and Misinformation

Consultation, Immigration, NRPF, Policy, Research, Westminster /

No Recourse to Public Facts NRPF, The Media, and Mis/Dis/Malinformation Public understanding of migration is, by most available measures, badly out of step with reality. Polling consistently finds that a majority of the British public fail to agree on or identify objectively true statements and trends in the migration domain; for example, most believe net

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Papers, Power and Control: What Is Immigration Abuse?

Consultation, gender based violence, Immigration, Policy, Research /

Papers, Power and Control: What is Immigration Abuse? Gender-based abuse is primarily understood through the lens of physical and verbal threats, violence and disruption. Increasingly, the concepts of psychological and economic abuse are being accepted into the general public’s understanding of abuse and the behaviours associated; however, widespread understanding and adoption of these terms still

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