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.

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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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US federal immigration agents detain a person outside a school in Minneapolis during enforcement raids, January 2026. Photo by Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images
— The New Statesman

A British Ice would be a disaster

Reform's anti-migrant policies are sounding more and more American

Illustration by Jonathan McHugh / Ikon Images
— The New Statesman

Labour is creating a vulnerable migrant underclass

Chasing Reform on immigration will only entrench an unequal system and increase resentment

— 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.

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— The New Statesman

Shabana Mahmood is wrong

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

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood arrives at Downing Street to attend the weekly Cabinet meeting on Oct. 28, 2025. Photo by Raid Necati Aslm/Anadolu via Getty Images
— 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