In June 2005, the author interviewed five Sudanese men. All but one had been failed by UK asylum procedures. Their stories are related to other examples of similarly desperate asylum seekers throughout the UK and the effects of policies of forced destitution, detention and deportation are described.
National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns news service, available by email from <ncadc@ncadc.org.uk>.
2.
Mohamed Salih , ‘Understanding the conflict in Darfur’, Occasional Paper, Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen , May 2005, available by email from the author at <salih@iss.nl>.
3.
Jamie Doward and Diane Taylor , ‘UN condemns British policy on deportees’, Observer (12 June 2005), <http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,1504662,00.html>.
4.
Ibid.
5.
Harmit Athwal , ‘Two asylum seekers took their own lives within 24 hours’, IRR News (21 September 2005), <http://www.irr.org.uk/2005/september/ha000021.html>.
6.
See <http://www.paih.org> for more details.
7.
‘Sheridan arrested at asylum demo’, BBC News (21 November 2005), <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4455950.stm>.
