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This week Lacuna returns to migration against the backdrop of the worsening refugee crisis across Europe.

In this edition we focus on Britain’s use of immigration detention. After months of delay, the government finally published the Shaw review last month, which urged the government to use less detention. In  our writer-in-residence Rebecca Omonira interviews a mentally ill detainee who is seriously disturbed by the death of a fellow detainee. His detention raises important questions about the government’s use of the policy. is a short documentary which tells the individual stories of former detainees. In Keira Koroma meets some of these protestors at an action outside Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre.

Further afield, in Naomi Clugston reports on the Holot detention camp in Israel where the government arbitrarily detains asylum seekers. And in Charlotte Bailey interviews playwright Mia Chung about her new play ‘You For Me For You’, which tells the story of two sisters from North Korea, bringing to the life the psychological battles facing migrants fleeing horrific circumstances.

And in our creative section, Clare Lavery challenges the stunted use of language in the mainstream media when it comes to discussing migrants and migration. Her poem explores the notion of movement, searching for a home and finding a new voice amid the hate and anger often directed towards migrants and refugees.