A conference to mark national refugee week, exploring fostering resilience by emphasising human rights. Tuesday 19 June 2012, 9-4.30pm Peter Williams Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH Speakers include: Shami Chakrabarti – Liberty Taiwo Afuape – Clinical psychologist Matt Carr – Author of Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent Nazek Ramadan –
Theme: Education
Hackney migrant groups fundraiser
A fundraiser for Hackney Migrant Centre and Hackney Refugee and Migrant Support Group. Friday 22 June 2012, 7-10pm St Paul’s Church Hall, Stoke Newington Road, London N16 7UY Entertainment includes: Music from The Travelling Irons Food and bar Prize quiz Raffle
Meeting on charter flights to Afghanistan
A public meeting on charter flights to Afghanistan. Monday 25 June 2012, 7pm Praxis, Pott Street, Bethnal Green, London E2 0EF Related Links National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns
Baisikel calls for volunteers and bikes
A new project opens up opportunities for asylum seekers in London to get about. A couple living in London concerned about the worsening conditions that asylum seekers find themselves, increasingly now dispersed outside the M25 but required to travel into central London for appointments, decided that there was a practical way that they could help.
Commonwealth migration: the past and the future
An event to mark the significance of the 50th anniversary of the first Commonwealth Immigrants Act and the impact of immigration control legislation. Thursday 14 June 2012, 6.30-9pm Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG Speakers: Professor Nigel Harris – University College London Dr Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah (Chair) – Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society Professor
Freedom From Torture fundraiser
An evening of poetry and prose in support of Freedom From Torture. Tuesday 12 June 2012, 6.30pm Freedom From Torture, 111 Isledon Road, London N7 7JW Speakers: Andrew Motion Alan Hollinghurst RELATED LINKS Freedom From Torture
Stop the Glasgow evictions
Demonstration against the evictions of asylum seekers by their landlord, Ypeople. Saturday 16 June 2012, 12pm George Square, Glasgow G2 1DU RELATED LINKS Download a flyer Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees Unity Centre Glasgow National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns Scottish Trades Union Congress
PAFRAS fundraiser
A night of music, food and a prize raffle in support of Leeds-based Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (PAFRAS). Thursday 14 June 2012, 6.30pm Wharf Chambers, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds LS2 7EQ Confirmed acts include: La La & the Boo Ya Biscuithead and the Biscuit Badgers Downdime Kog Moorcroft RELATED LINKS PAFRAS
Boats 4 People
An imaginative project highlights migrant deaths at sea and seeks to restore traditions of humanity and rescue endangered by migration control. The callous and deliberate failure by the Italian and Spanish governments and NATO to rescue seventy-two migrants in their drifting dinghy in a Mediterranean ‘search and rescue area’, leading to the deaths of sixty-three
Border Force Britain
The government’s rebranding of the UK Border Agency (UKBA)’s operational arm from immigration service to Border Force encapsulates the approach which treats migrants as criminals. Suddenly, there were all these references to ‘border force’ officials on the news. Border Force. The name brands the organisation as somehow more powerful, hard-hitting, but also and contradictorily tells