Nicola Kelly for Anywhere But Here

What is it like to arrive on our shores with nothing and be pushed to the margins of society?

Who stands to gain from an asylum system that is intentionally hostile?

Anywhere But Here is a powerful expose of Britain's broken asylum system and how it fails us all.

Each year tens of thousands of people risk their lives to cross the Channel in small boats hoping to find safety in Britain. Yet the very system designed to protect them has all but collapsed.

With unique and unparalleled access, award-winning journalist and former Home Office insider Nicola Kelly takes us behind the scenes of the small boats crisis for the first time.

We follow the under-resourced coastguard overseeing search and rescue operations in the Channel. The immigration barristers securing last-minute reprieves for deportees who narrowly escaped death. We step inside the Home Office corridors as ministers and advisors respond to emerging crises and scandals, from Windrush to the Rwanda plan.

At its heart are the stories of war-torn arrivals, lone teenagers and trafficked women attempting to settle in cities, towns and villages across the UK. We travel to meet them, exploring where they have fled from and why, and the response of local communities to their new neighbours.

This is a searing investigation into one of the most urgent issues and shocking injustices of our time.

Nicola Kelly is an award-winning investigative journalist and writer focused on UK immigration and asylum. Her reporting regularly appears in the Guardian, Observer, Independent, OpenDemocracy and elsewhere. Her reporting has been referenced in several legal challenges against Conservative Home Secretaries, as well as submissions and human rights reports.