Community refugee sponsorship: how the Home Office can get its new safe-and-legal route right

By Jacqui Broadhead, Director, Global Exchange on Migration, University of Oxford

As part of a package of reforms to the UK’s asylum system, Shabana Mahmood has laid out the details of a new community sponsorship route for refugees to come to the UK.

The home secretary’s announcement draws on Canada’s experience of resettling over 400,000 refugees since 1979 through community sponsorship. While the planned UK scheme is much smaller in scale, Mahmood says it will “build over time as public confidence is restored in Britain’s immigration system”.

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