An event to create home-grown solutions to the destitution of asylum seekers. Saturday 22 October 2011, 1-11pm Pearce Institute, Govan Road, Govan, Glasgow G51 3UU The event includes: Arts workshops Information stalls Food Film screenings Musical entertainment Related links Pearce Institute
Geography: Scotland
Positive Action in Housing AGM
The sixteenth annual general meeting of the Glasgow based charity Positive Action in Housing. Friday 16 September 2011, 11am Glasgow City Chambers, George Square, Glasgow G2 1DU Speakers: Chair: Jelina Rahman – Positive Action in Housing Arthur West – Friends of Refugees Ayrshire Fariha Thomas and Amina Muslim – Women’s Resource Centre Jo Haythornthwaite –
Glasgow eviction battle continues
The UK Border Agency’s (UKBA) shocking conduct over its proposed evictions in Glasgow needs urgent investigation, says Glasgow housing charity Positive Action in Housing (PAIH). Following the 15 November demonstration against UKBA’s service of eviction notices on 600 asylum-seeking families in Glasgow (read an IRR News story: ‘Asylum-seeking families in Glasgow face imminent move’), it
Asylum-seeking families in Glasgow face imminent move
UKBA has cancelled its contract with Glasgow City Council for the accommodation of asylum seekers, leaving hundreds of families with the prospect of moving out of the city. On 5 November 2010, the UK Border Agency wrote to all the 600 or so asylum- seeking families housed by Glasgow City Council on its behalf, telling
How violence impacts on young lives
A reader tells of day to day racism in Glasgow. After reading the IRR’s report Racial violence: the buried issue, ‘it struck a chord with me … I am white but my partner is African, my child mixed race. We live in Glasgow. We encounter a lot of threatening abuse even when just waiting at
Scotland rallies against terrorism
Following a spate of racial violence against Muslims in Scotland in response to the attack on Glasgow airport, various Muslim community groups are organising a ‘Scotland United Against Terror’ rally in Glasgow’s George Square this weekend. The week following the attack on Glasgow airport has seen a number of violent incidents taking place against Muslims
Scotland’s BME resource library
Edinburgh-based voluntary organisation Minority Ethnic Carers of People Project (MECOPP) has launched a national resource library for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME ) communities, supported by the Big Lottery Fund, which holds information on a variety of health and social care issues. While MECOPP works specifically to support BME carers in the Lothians, the new
Roll call of deaths of asylum seekers and undocumented migrants, 1989-2010
IRR has, since 1989, been recording the deaths of asylum seekers and undocumented migrants – two of the most vulnerable sections of our society – as a result of attempting to enter the UK, self-harm, denial of medical treatment, destitution, hazardous working conditions or racist attacks. Forced by circumstances beyond their control to seek a
Opposition in Scotland to Westminster’s immigration policies is growing
Last week, the UK’s minister on immigration Tony McNulty, in a high-handed intervention, forbade the assistant head of Immigration Services in Scotland from meeting a delegation of concerned Scottish church, charity and political representatives. Rolf Toollen, the Scottish official, was all ready for the meeting. In fact, it was reported that he had cancelled a
‘Scandalous’ UK immigration practices claim another family
The deportation, this morning, of the Vucaj family to Kosovo has been condemned by supporters who have led a vociferous campaign to keep them in Scotland. The Kosovan family were fighting deportation following a dawn raid on their family home in Scotstoun, Glasgow on 13 September. The Vucajs, who have been living in Scotland since