Zoe Gardner

Zoe Gardner is an independent researcher, campaigner and commentator on UK immigration and asylum policy.

She has previously held research, policy and communications roles at the Stop Trump Coalition, the European Network on Statelessness, the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, Asylum Aid, the Race Equality Foundation, and the European Council on Refugees and Exiles.

Zoe is available for media, public speaking and events.

contact@zoegardner.net
YouTube: What to say when you are asked: Why don't real refugees claim asylum in France?

Giving oral evidence to the Parliamentary Bill Committee for the Nationality and Borders Act - September 2021

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— Zoe Gardner, Another Europe is Possible

Time for Change: The evidence-based policies that can actually fix the immigration system

Report produced for Another Europe is Possible in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung Foundation, outlining a nine-point plan to fix the UK immigration and asylum systems.

— The New Statesman

Shabana Mahmood is wrong

Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government

— Zeteo

Labour's Vile Appeasement of the Anti-Migrant Right Won't Even 'Work'

Stripping refugees of their jewelry is part of a cruel new anti-asylum plan by the British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood

— Metro

Keir Starmer tries to look tough on immigration - and exposes himself as a coward

The Prime Minister has declared himself furious at the asylum accommodation mess that he was left by the preceding government

— Metro

Almost 20,000 asylum seekers in 6 months proves a crucial point

It will have surprised no one - but provoked a great deal of performative shock among politicians and commentators - that the number of people crossing to the UK in a small boat this year is significantly higher than previous years