The assault on the family life of migrants inevitably leads to the creation of ‘immigration offenders’, to detention and deportation. The month-long detention and deportation to Singapore of a grandmother with a 27-year marriage to a British husband, British children and a British grandchild rightly caused outrage. Yet it is no aberration, but an inevitable
Geography: North-East England
Demonstration at Morton Hall
A demonstration to protest the two deaths at Morton Hall immigration detention centre. Saturday 11 March 2017, 12pm Morton Hall Village, Swinderby, Lincoln LN6 9PT Related links View further details here
Calendar of racism and resistance (10-23 February 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 8 February: New research by Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) finds that hundreds of foreign nationals being held in prison are being denied access to immigration advice. Download the report: Mind the Gap: Immigration Advice
The shame of asylum housing of child refugees in the UK
John Grayson, a campaigner from South Yorkshire, examines the market in asylum housing in the UK. The early months of the lives of hundreds of babies, toddlers and young child refugees have been blighted by life in privatised accommodation provided by G4S, Serco and Clearsprings[1] and funded by taxpayers, since 2012. Now the government has
Calendar of racism and resistance (26 January – 9 February 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and immigration January 2016: The Migration Observatory publishes a report: Young People and Migration in the UK: An Overview. View and download it here. 27 January: The Belgian interior minister announces that Belgium, France and the Netherlands
One Day Without Us: UK National Protest
One Day Without Us – a national day of action to celebrate the contribution of migrants to the UK, to coincide with UN World Day of Social Justice. Monday 20 February – Tuesday 21 February 2017 Locations across the UK Please check the One Day Without Us website for details for actions across the UK Related
Morton Hall: another death in immigration detention
On 11 January an unnamed 27-year-old Polish man was found dead in Morton Hall immigration removal centre in Lincolnshire, the first death this year and the 29th death in immigration detention since 1989. It was reported by the Unity Centre that the man was found hanged in his room at the centre. He had apparently
Calendar of racism and resistance (13-25 January 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 11 January: An unnamed 27-year-old Polish man dies in Morton Hall detention centre in Lincolnshire. (Unity Centre Glasgow, 13 January 2017, Guardian, 13 January 2017) 12 January: Somali asylum seekers and riot police clash in
Calendar of racism and resistance (23 December 2016 – 12 January 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 22 November: Freedom from Torture publishes a report: Proving Torture, Demanding the impossible: Home Office mistreatment of expert medical evidence. Download the report here (pdf file, 1.6mb) 21 December: Human Rights Watch condemns the Home
Week of action against deportation charter flights
A week of action across the UK against mass deportation charter flights. Saturday 14 January 2017, 12-3pm. March Against Charter Flights and their impact on communities in the UK. Brixton, London – organised by Movement for Justice. Tuesday 17 January 2017, 4-5pm. Demonstration against Mass Deportation. Jamaican High Commission, 1 Prince Consort Road, Kensington, London SW7 2BZ.