Refugees

People thought to be migrants onboard a small boat. PIC: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

Shabana Mahmood announces asylum crackdown
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood claimed the UK was targeted by people “asylum shopping” around Europe as she faced the prospect of a backbench revolt to plans to...

Certificates of achievement were handed out celebrating Green Bridge Community Housing’s first-ever Refugee Week event at its offices in Burngreave, Sheffield.

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Alex, Nadia, Dana and Olena have made York their home after fleeing from Ukraine

Ukraine war: Family thank York for welcome ahead of national day

Ed Sheeran at a football game

Watch: Celebrity football super fans and the refugee Kitchen of Hope

One of the Kitchen of Hope chefs preparing some food

Asylum seekers and refugees cook for the homeless and the hungry

A destroyed Russian tank sits in a snow covered wheat field in Kharkiv region on February 22, 2023. PIC: ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images

Invasion of Ukraine isn't just about secular politics - Nicholas Baines

Coronation Street could see 5 characters exit as major storylines end

The Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell, pictured at York Minster before the Christmas Service. PIC: Simon Hulme

Country could do with is a dose of northern common sense - Stephen Cottrell

'When the Home Secretary uses language like “an invasion” or that she dreams of sending people to Rwanda it is not misogynistic to call that out.' PIC: Leon Neal/Getty Images.

It is not illegal to cross the Channel in a small boat - Yorkshire Post Letters

Dr Joshi aged 21, in Derby.

Refugees forced to flee Uganda in 1972 share memories 50 years on

Home Secretary Priti Patel. Picture: PA.

Refugees contribute positively to the UK despite trauma - Dr Abdul Bary Malik

Refugees taken in in North Yorkshire have found themselves entirely dependent on host families but to lack of services, such as buses

Refugees 'entirely dependent on host families' in remote Yorkshire villages

Home Secretary Priti Patel. Photo: Yui Mok/PA

Leaving EU did not mean leaving behind compassion - Yorkshire Post Letters

People, pass through Medyka border crossing in Poland heading back into war-torn Ukraine on April 06, 2022 in Medyka, Poland. Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images.

Despite the criticism, Ukraine refugee schemes are generous - Richard Harrington

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Holy Saturday and waiting, which Bradford 2025 knows all about - Toby Howarth

Volunteers at Dean Clough Mills in Halifax sort through donations and box up vital clothing and toiletries to aid Ukrainian refugees. Photo: Tony Johnson.

How Ukrainian refugees inspire us all – Yorkshire Post Letters

Refugees from Ukrainian wait for admission in front of the registration office for refugees inn Hamburg, Germany, Monday, March 14, 2022. Germany's Interior Ministry said Monday that it has so far registered 146,998 refugees from Ukraine coming to the country, but the real number may differ if people didn't register or moved on to another country. (Marcus Brandt/dpa via AP)

Cities like Sheffield want to do more for Ukraine – Olivia Blake

Prime Minister Boris Johnson shakes hands with Lord Sentamu (right) upon arrival at the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey in London on Commonwealth Day.

Refugees: Britain’s duty to the world – The Yorkshire Post says

The Duke of Cambridge met with Afghan refugees earlier this year in Leeds

Yorkshire hotels housing Afghanistan refugees 'needed for rest of 2022'

Aleksander, 41, presses his palms against the window as he says goodbye to his daughter Anna, 5, on a train to Lviv at the Kyiv station, Ukraine, Friday, March 4. 2022. Aleksander has to stay behind to fight in the war while his family leaves the country to seek refuge in a neighbouring country. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti).

No fly-zone would protect Ukraine from Putin’s forces – Paul Andrews

How should refugees from Afghanistan be welcomed in the region?

Home truths in York over Afghan refugees – William Gomes
HOUSING is a crucial issue in the integration of refugees and asylum seekers. My argument in what follows is based on the premise that housing is a human right.
William Gomes

A RAF Voyager aircraft carrying members of the British armed forces 16 Air Assault Brigade arrives at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, as they return from helping in operations to evacuate people from Kabul airport in Afghanistan.

Why Britain must offer welcome to refugees from Afghanistan - Bird Lovegod

Boucka Koffi (pictured right in the red hat) said refugees 'just want to be treated with dignity' over calls to change the Home Office's reporting system for immigrants

'Refugees just want to be treated with human dignity' says Sheffield asylum seek...

PROTEST: Kneehighs adaptation of Gunter Grasss novel The Tin Drum is at the West Yorkshire Playhouse . Picture: Steve Tanner.

Kneehigh's unique take on classic 20th century novel

Volunteer Derek Sykes teaches Gillian Cooper at the art and conversation class.
Picture Jonathan Gawthorpe

A welcome way to help put an end to loneliness

MP Rachel Reees is co-chair of the Jo Cox Loneliness Commission. Picture: Tony Johnson

Refugees in Yorkshire left 'lonely and isolated' from lack of English language h...

The late Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox

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One of the 45 bodies of migrants that were recovered by the Italian military ship Vega during its search and rescue mission in the Mediterranean sea, is being disembarked at the harbour of Reggio Calabria, Southern Italy, as migrants risk their lives crossing the English Channel.

Refugees must not be left to drown off UK coast says Yorkshire academic

On this day in Yorkshire 1937

Displaced Iraqis and Syrian refugees in the north of the country.

Refugees not getting adequate health care

Some of the migrants and refugees, estimated as more than 20,000 daily, from Syria, Aghanistan and Iraq, who have crossed the border from Macedonia to Serbia, wait in Miratovac for transport to a refugee centre in Presevo.

YP Letters: The critical difference between migrants and refugees

A group of Syrian, Afghan and Palestinian refugees arriving off the coast of Lesvos. Greece.

John Redwood: Refugees, the EU and why UK must retain control of borders
AS an island nation, it clearly makes sense for the United Kingdom to have her own border arrangements.
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Gwynne Dyer: Refugees bring out the good, the bad and the ugly

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Proposal to cap detention to 28 days

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Refugees heading home to Burma after election tension explodes into fighting

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