Lord Dubs is a tireless advocate for the rights of displaced people, and has spent much of his life campaigning for a more humane, compassionate asylum system in the UK. Having fled to the UK at the age of 6 to escape Nazi terror, Lord Dubs will provide us with insights from his lived experience of displacement in the UK, and the experiences of other displaced people through many years of campaigning, to help us understand the need to create a fairer, more friendly environment for displaced people in the UK.
Family reunion rules determine whether a refugee settled in the UK is allowed to bring their immediate family to safety. These rules are current restrictive and cruel; crucially unaccompanied child refugees are not entitled to be joined by their parents or carers. To find out more about the current state of family reunion policy in the UK, take a look at this Refugee Action page: https://www.refugee-action.org.uk/family_reunion/
