Home Office will not intervene over #Yashika_Bageerathi deportation
Immigration minister says case has been through proper legal process, after 170,000 signed petition backing teenager
▻http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/31/home-office-yashika-bageerathi-deportation?CMP=twt_gu
Yashika Bageerathi deportation case not exceptional, says minister
James Brokenshire says student’s case does not merit intervention despite committee’s call for compassion
▻http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/01/yashika-bageerathi-deportation-james-brokenshire
Yashika Bageerathi’s lawyers file urgent anti-deportation appeal with high court
Mauritian student, 19, already on way to airport without her mother and siblings after Home Office refused to intervene
▻http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/02/mauritian-student-yashika-bageerathi-deported-within-hours
Claim Yarl’s Wood denied dying woman medical care probed
Claims that an immigration centre detainee was denied medical assistance before dying are to be investigated.
Student Yashika Bageerathi to be deported later
An A-Level student is set to be deported later from north London to her native Mauritius despite protests to allow her to stay in the UK.
Student Yashika Bageerathi removed from UK as legal bid fails
An A-Level student from north London has been removed from the country and is being flown back to Mauritius after a last ditch legal challenge failed.
Yashika’s deportation is a shocking story, but it does bring hope
The anti-immigration lobby is cynical in how it uses extreme examples to win hearts – now we can fight back with Yashika
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/03/shocking-story-yashika-bageerathi-deportation-immigration?CMP=twt_gu
Analysis : Yashika Bageerathi and the law
Why was Yashika Bageerathi sent back to #Mauritius? The Home Office says the case didn’t pass the asylum test.
Whose interests do we protect by refusing children asylum? Not ours, nor the children’s
In just a few days last week the #FightForYashika campaign managed to raise more than 178,000 signatures on a petition asking to the UK Home Office to reconsider the forced removal of 19-year-old Yashika Bageerathi, who was deported back to Mauritius to face the abuse and harrassment from which she and her family had claimed asylum in Britain in 2011. In a poignant analysis of the case in The Observer newspaper, Catherine Bennett, explained the possible reasons behind the sympathetic coverage even in usually anti-immigration media outlets by this story, noting that it “nicely encapsulates a picky but popular approach to migrants: just a few exceptionally gifted singletons, please”.
▻http://theconversation.com/whose-interests-do-we-protect-by-refusing-children-asylum-not-ours-
Yashika Bageerathi removal: Enfield student ’grateful’ for support
An A-level student who was removed to Mauritius weeks before sitting her exams has said she is “grateful” for all the support she received.