Before Covid-19 around a quarter of the UK’s rough sleeping population were non-UK nationals, with the proportion rising above half in some metropolitan areas. The UK government’s targeting of rough-sleeping EU citizens for ‘administrative removal’ between 2010–2017 reflected a trend in social policy towards enforcement- rather than support-based ‘solutions’ to migrant homelessness. Changes to the Immigration Rules in late 2020 to make rough sleeping a ground for refusal or cancellation of permission to be in the UK represent a revival of this tendency. This commentary analyses UK policies targeting rough sleeping non-UK nationals for deportation from a practitioner’s perspective – the author ran a rights project for homeless migrants between 2018 and 2021.

在 Covid-19 之前，英国大约四分之一的粗睡人口是非英国国民，在一些大都市地区，这一比例上升到一半以上。英国政府在 2010 年至 2017 年期间针对睡不着的欧盟公民进行“行政驱逐”，这反映了社会政策的趋势，即针对移民无家可归问题采取执法而非支持的“解决方案”。2020 年末移民规则的变化使粗睡成为拒绝或取消在英国许可的理由，这代表了这种趋势的复兴。这篇评论从从业者的角度分析了英国针对睡眠不佳的非英国国民驱逐出境的政策——作者在 2018 年至 2021 年期间为无家可归的移民开展了一项权利项目。