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Jonathan Thomas

Senior Fellow

Jonathan is a Senior Fellow and has been the Migration Researcher at the SMF since the beginning of 2018. He studied History at Oxford and Law at Nottingham. After over two decades as a senior legal professional in the City of London, he went back to university once more, in 2017, to complete an Immigration Law LLM, before turning his attention to analysing the opportunities and challenges for the UK that are presented by the many aspects of international migration
Email: jonathan@smf.co.uk
Twitter: @JTmigratory

Recent work

Publication

Fixing Britain’s broken asylum system
This briefing paper discusses the on-going war of words between the Government and refugee advocates over recent rhetoric on asylum and illegal migration. It sets out the complexities and challenges facing Britain's asylum system and makes the case for co-operation between both sides over increased participation in international resettlement schemes.
Published: 30 November 2020
Author: Jonathan Thomas
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Best intentions: EU migrant workers in Fenland
This report is based on the results of survey interviews conducted with mostly lower-skilled EU migrants in the Fenland area of the UK, one of the most deprived parts of the UK and at the heart of the "Leave" vote in the EU Referendum.
Published: 17 September 2020
Author: Jonathan Thomas
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Commentary

The Hostile Environment: The Empire Strikes Back
The Court of Appeal has ruled on a very important legal challenge to a core element of the UK Government's ‘hostile environment’ approach to immigration control, the ‘right to rent’ rules that require private landlords to check the immigration status of potential tenants before letting to them.
Published: 14 May 2020
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