‘Unthinkable cruelty’: Kenyan expert working at Bristol University denied visa for six-year-old daughter

Furious colleagues denounce decision that there are no compassionate grounds' to allow the child to join her mother

Dr Doseline Kiguru, a Kenyan expert in world literature, was overjoyed when she secured a permanent position at Bristol University. But that all changed last week when the Home Office refused to allow her six-year-old daughter to join her.

The decision, which furious colleagues have called an act of unthinkable cruelty", will fuel fears that the government is disproportionately blocking academics from the global south from coming to the UK, despite Rishi Sunak's pledge to make Britain a global science superpower".