Lazy and dishonest lawyers, a couldn’t-care-less Home Office, school racism, inadequate jobs – most refugees and many migrants will recognise elements of Inua Ellams’ story.
But though the UK’s hostile environment – still as viciously destructive as ever – harms and hurts everyone on the receiving end, every newcomer to these shores has a unique story to tell.
Ellams, for example, had a Muslim father and a Christian mother, a distinctively ungendered upbringing in Nigeria, a particularly heartless relationship with the UK immigration authorities that forced the family to relocate…
Lazy and dishonest lawyers, a couldn’t-care-less Home Office, school racism, inadequate jobs – most refugees and many migrants will recognise elements of Inua Ellams’ story.
But though the UK’s hostile…
