Katharine Fletcher

Katharine Fletcher contributed to Asylum Voices, a report for the Churches’ Commission for Racial Justice. She has been on the staff of the LRB for the past year and is due to take up a post at the New Left Review.

Letter

Obstacles to Seeking Asylum

17 March 2005

Matt Cavanagh says that the number of applications for asylum in the UK has been reduced as a result of the government’s asylum policies (Letters, 31 March). The UNHCR, however, reports that the number of asylum seekers has fallen by 40 per cent since 2001 in fifty industrialised countries, and that the movement of refugees is in decline everywhere. While the number of asylum applicants entering...

A Minimum of Charity: The obstacles to seeking asylum

Katharine Fletcher, 17 March 2005

Alongside cutting crime, hospital waiting-lists and taxes, cutting the number of asylum seekers can be depended on to rank high among pre-election promises. This year, the Tories’ cap on refugee numbers has jousted with the home secretary’s proposals to remove the right of recognised refugees to remain in Britain unconditionally, to lock up more asylum seekers while their claims...

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