What we’re reading this week

A compilation of top content on UK immigration law and policy, updated weekly.

Number of homeless refugees in Glasgow doubles amid asylum backlog – The Guardian, 29 November

Thousands of refugees could be on the streets for Christmas without urgent government action – Local Government Association, 28 November

Home Office to halt asylum evictions amid soaring refugee homelessness crisis – The Big Issue, 1 December

Asylum seekers: Home Office says more than 17,000 are missing – BBC News, 29 November

Fears rise for LGBTQ asylum seekers over Home Office hotel room-sharing push – The Guardian, 1 December

Lords Committee raises concerns over immigration law change declaring India and Georgia as ‘safe states’ – House of Lords’ Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, 1 December

Migrant fruit picker who ‘struggled to buy food after being underpaid by British farm’ sues employers – Independent, 3 December

British lawyers could be based in Rwandan courts as part of asylum plans – BBC News, 1 December

Rwanda scheme: the government’s next steps in parliament – Institute for Government, 29 November

Blog: The shocking treatment of migrant workers harms us all – Unison, 28 November

Our Kafkaesque immigration system: what it really costs to come here to work – West Country Voices, 26 November

Self-harm incident nearly every day in UK immigration detention, data shows – The Guardian, 27 November

Neglect, deflect, then scapegoat those you’ve exploited: that’s what passes for UK immigration policy – The Guardian, 4 December

Oral evidence: Work of the Home Office, HC 356 – Home Affairs Committee, 29 November

Patel and Braverman accused of secret policy to deny trafficking victims leave to remain – The Guardian, 1 December

New reception centres planned to host unaccompanied child asylum-seekers in Kent – Independent, 29 November

UK ministers considering limit on foreign care workers’ dependants – The Guardian, 29 November

Europe’s Nameless Dead – Lighthouse Reports, 1 December

Revealed: 1,500 Afghans scrambled to UK in secretive mission as minister speaks of Britain’s ‘enormous debt’ – Independent, 1 December

Migration deal: Physically in Albania, legally in Italy – Brussels Times, 28 November

Heavily pregnant Afghan women eligible to come to UK stuck in Pakistan – The Guardian, 3 December