Benefit gig for the Campaign to Close Campsfield. Saturday 10 March 2012, 7.30pm Folly Bridge Inn, Abingdon Road, Oxford OX1 4PD Entertainment: Robb Johnson Tracey Curtis Related links Campaign to Close Campsfield
Theme: Education
Defend the Roma Community
Europe-Roma is hosting a meeting to discuss attacks and discrimination facing the Roma. Saturday 10 March 2012, 2-4pm Unite the Union, 211 Broad Street, Birmingham B15 1AY Related links Birmingham Racial Attacks Monitoring Unit Leicester Civil Rights Movement Midlands Refugee Council West Midlands Anti-Deportation Campaign
Chronic destitution among young migrants and refugees
The Children’s Society has recently published a report on levels of destitution and poverty among asylum-seeking and migrant youth. An alarming rise in the number of destitute children seeking support through children’s centres in the UK has prompted research on the abhorrent conditions faced by young asylum-seekers and migrants. The report, ‘I don’t feel human’:
Haslar visitors group meeting
The annual general meeting for befrienders of asylum seekers and refugees. Wednesday 7 March 2012, 7pm All Saints Church, Commercial Road, Portsmouth PO1 4BT Speaker: Frances Webber – Institute of Race Relations Related links Haslar Visitors Group
Action for ESOL manifesto launch
Launch of the Action for ESOL Manifesto. Saturday 3 March 2012, 12pm UCU head office, Carlow Street, London NW1 7LH Related links Action for ESOL
Stop deportations public meeting
A meeting to make links with organisations in Peckham to help build a movement against the detention and deportation of migrants. Saturday 25 February 2012, 3-5pm Peckham Library, second floor, 122 Peckham Hill Street, London SE15 5JR Related links London No Borders Stop Deportation Network
Response to G4S: 900 asylum seekers face eviction in Yorkshire
Academics take issue with G4S’ defence of its treatment of asylum seekers. Two weeks ago on IRR News, we published a letter from Yorshire academics protesting that a contract for housing asylum seekers had been awarded to G4S. The company responded to its critics (pdf file, 1.1mb). And in reponse to this, the group have
New helpline for undocumented migrants
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) has announced the launch of an advice line for undocumented migrants in London. The free advice line is aimed at irregular migrants, which includes migrants who have overstayed their visas, those whose asylum applications have been refused and those cases where refugee status has been revoked.[1]
Racism and the use of force during deportations
The parliamentary Home Affairs Committee has recently published a report on rules governing enforced removal from the UK. Concerns surrounding the treatment of people being removed by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) [and its contractors] have been growing in light of recent events. In particular, the death of Jimmy Mubenga in October 2010 during a
No Borders activists arrested after west London blockade
Eleven No Borders activists have been charged with public order offences following an action to stop a charter flight to Ghana earlier this week. On Valentines’ evening a group of over forty No Borders activists carried out a blockade of Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres in west London. The aim of the action was an