‘A copy should be in every office, not just in the Home Office, but throughout the government. An exceptional and highly relevant book.’ Caroline Lucas, author of Another England
What is it like to reach our shores with nothing and be marginalized by society? Who benefits from an asylum system that is deliberately hostile?
Anywhere But Here is a powerful expose of Britain’s broken asylum system and how it fails all of us.
Every year, tens of thousands risk their lives crossing the Channel in small boats hoping to find safety in Britain. However, the very system meant to protect them has nearly collapsed.
With unique and unparalleled access, award-winning journalist and former Home Office official, Nicola Kelly, takes us behind the scenes of the small boat crisis for the first time.
We follow the understaffed coastguard overseeing search and rescue operations in the Channel. Decision-makers hired from McDonald's and Aldi to conduct ‘life and death asylum interviews’. Immigration lawyers securing last chances for deportees who narrowly escaped death. And we enter the corridors of the Home Office as ministers and advisers react to emerging crises and scandals, from Windrush to the Rwanda plan.
At the heart of the matter are the stories of arrivals from war zones, teenagers alone, and trafficked women trying to settle in towns, communities, and villages across the UK. We travel to meet them, exploring where they fled from and why, and the reaction of local communities to their new neighbors.
Located on the beaches and in the ports, in hotels, courtrooms, and detention centers where the future paths of those affected are shaped, this is a fierce inquiry into one of the most urgent issues and shocking injustices of our time.
Pages: 320, Year of Publication: 0604, Dimensions: 15.6x15.6cm
