After Brook House: continued abuses in immigration detention (2024)
JRS UK’s research – conducted with people with more recent experience of detention at different detention centres – finds clear, and deeply disturbing, parallels between practices and culture revealed by the 2017 Brook House Inquiry and recent and ongoing practices and culture across UK immigration detention.
Napier Barracks: the inhumane reality (2023)
JRS UK ran an outreach service to Napier for two years from October 2020. What we saw on the ground was deeply troubling: the site was bleak and rundown, the setting was securitised, the accommodation was crowded. This all took a serious toll on mental health. The report draws from the accounts of 17 forcibly displaced people supported by JRS UK held in Napier Barracks between July and November 2022.
Being Human in the Asylum System (2021)
The report seeks to envisage a just and person-centred asylum system by bringing refugee experience and policy analysis into conversation with Catholic Social Teaching, against the backdrop of new, deeply troubling government proposals for an overhaul of the asylum system.
For our welfare and not for our harm (2021)
This faith-based report, written by leading Catholic theologian Dr Anna Rowlands in collaboration with JRS, analyses barriers to justice and dignity faced by destitute people seeking asylum and people who’ve experienced detention from their own perspectives and approaches them as “dignified human agents who are able to shape their own futures.” The report focuses on the skills that many wish to pursue in order to work – not only to survive materially, but also as a way of contributing to society and maintaining a sense of purpose.
Detained and Dehumanised (2021)
This report draws from the accounts of 27 forcibly displaced people supported by JRS UK, with direct experience of detention spanning the last 20 years. It finds that the Home Office policy of immigration detention fosters a culture of death, self-harm and ongoing trauma leaving those who are detained, or threatened by the prospect of detention, dehumanised.
Out in the Cold (2018)
Research undertaken by JRS UK uncovers a widespread pattern of sporadic street homelessness affecting men and women of different ages and backgrounds, who had fled to the UK for safety and sought asylum, but struggled to gain recognition of their status as a refugee.
Other resources
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SCHOOL ASSEMBLY RESOURCE
We have produced a resource for schools that is designed to get students thinking and talking about refugees and some of things that those who come to the UK seeking safety face. With a slideshow and notes, it is perfect to use in an assembly or in class for Key Stage 3 and above. If you have any questions about using or adapting this resource, please email Victoria Firth – uk@jrs.net
