Refugees

What Spain's migration decision means for the UK
A Spanish flag flying in the street.
Dr Allan Njanji

What Spain's migration decision means for the UK

Dr Allan Njanji, a refugee advocate with experience of the asylum system and Big Issue Changemaker for 2026, writes about what the UK could learn from Spain's decision to grant legal status to half a million migrants
Homes for Ukraine helped save thousands of people. But life for Ukrainian refugees is still uncertain
Carly Whyborn

Homes for Ukraine helped save thousands of people. But life for Ukrainian refugees is still uncertain

Big Issue's 100 Changemakers of 2026: Refugees, migrants and asylum seekers
Changemakers 2026

Big Issue's 100 Changemakers of 2026: Refugees, migrants and asylum seekers

Introducing the Big Issue 100 Changemakers of 2026
Changemakers 2026

Introducing the Big Issue 100 Changemakers of 2026

What happens to undocumented migrants not lucky enough to be like Paddington Bear?
Migration

What happens to undocumented migrants not lucky enough to be like Paddington Bear?

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
How the UK's only cash-first food bank is shattering myths around aid: 'Cash is the issue'
Food banks

How the UK's only cash-first food bank is shattering myths around aid: 'Cash is the issue'

Letters: The world belongs to all of us – so let's make it a kinder place 
Letters

Letters: The world belongs to all of us – so let's make it a kinder place 

The message that non-white people are unwelcome in the UK got louder in 2025 – here's the proof
protesters surround a police van
Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan

The message that non-white people are unwelcome in the UK got louder in 2025 – here's the proof

Children recruited as soldiers and facing 'brutal' sexual violence in Sudan war
Image captured in July 2025 of a woman and two girls from Sudan who fled to South Sudan.
Sudan war

Children recruited as soldiers and facing 'brutal' sexual violence in Sudan war

I fled female genital mutilation in Guinea. This is how I will be spending Christmas Day
A Refugees Welcome sign on a fence
Refugees at Christmas

I fled female genital mutilation in Guinea. This is how I will be spending Christmas Day

Could Santa be a refugee? This is what his Christmas asylum journey would look like
Ala Sirriyeh

Could Santa be a refugee? This is what his Christmas asylum journey would look like

I came to Britain as a teenager. Now I'm the first female Syrian refugee pilot
Refugees at Christmas

I came to Britain as a teenager. Now I'm the first female Syrian refugee pilot

I fled Ukraine after Russia's invasion. This is what Christmas is like for refugee families like mine
Refugees at Christmas

I fled Ukraine after Russia's invasion. This is what Christmas is like for refugee families like mine

No room at the inn for refugees? Many Brits are happy to welcome strangers in need
Dr Krish Kandiah

No room at the inn for refugees? Many Brits are happy to welcome strangers in need

Is Labour really going to end homelessness?
housing secretary Steve Reed
homelessness

Is Labour really going to end homelessness?

Olympic boxer Ramla Ali: 'I'm fighting international aid cuts crushing children's dreams'
British-Somali boxer Ramla Ali in front of a pile of broken, discarded desks in Dadaab refugee camp.
Ramla Ali

Olympic boxer Ramla Ali: 'I'm fighting international aid cuts crushing children's dreams'

Sudan war exposes hypocrisy of UK government's treatment of asylum seekers
Boy on a cattle farm in south Sudan in 2024.
Ben Whitham

Sudan war exposes hypocrisy of UK government's treatment of asylum seekers

Housing refugees properly benefits everyone in society – here's how
a tent on the street
Lauren Aronin

Housing refugees properly benefits everyone in society – here's how

Labour can't out-Reform Reform – it needs to change tack
Nigel Farage
Stephen Walcott

Labour can't out-Reform Reform – it needs to change tack

How government inaction is radicalising Britain
John Bird

How government inaction is radicalising Britain

I wish people like Tommy Robinson could see what life in asylum accommodation is really like
Osman

I wish people like Tommy Robinson could see what life in asylum accommodation is really like

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
I know all too well what it means when men like Donald Trump say that torture works
Donald Trump
Kolbassia Haoussou

I know all too well what it means when men like Donald Trump say that torture works

I've been forced to flee Gaza City with my family. It feels like my soul is being torn from my body
Rubble and destruction in Gaza
Mohammed Aklouk

I've been forced to flee Gaza City with my family. It feels like my soul is being torn from my body

Home Office halves time for new refugees to find a home in move 'guaranteed to increase homelessness'
a tent on the street
Homelessness

Home Office halves time for new refugees to find a home in move 'guaranteed to increase homelessness'

Refugees living in the UK are terrified. Please stand with us in solidarity
A woman holding a sign calling for people to 'Hear us' and 'Believe us'. Image: Simon Tang/ Women for Refugee Women
Memory

Refugees living in the UK are terrified. Please stand with us in solidarity