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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Shaheena Uddin

Mould, mice and rooms with strangers: Inside migrant hotels that government claims are ‘luxury’

Lost and helpless in a foreign country, Abu Omar* was grateful to be given a place to stay in a hotel after arriving in the UK last year.

After fleeing a refugee camp in Jordan, he and his young family were offered a room in a London hotel, which had been designated for asylum seekers by the goverment.

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