The Anti Raids Network is holding a noise demonstration outside HMP Holloway. Friday 27 June 2014, 7pm HMP Holloway, Parkhurst Road, London N7 0NU Related links Anti Raids Network Full details of the event
Theme: Education
Asylum in Switzerland – out of sight, out of mind
Swiss asylum policy is characterised by institutional neglect within hostile systems designed to segregate and exclude. Feras Farees Abedal Motaleeb was a Palestinian refugee who, having fled from Iraq to Switzerland to save his life, found death in a remote Swiss valley, in an 8m² space in a metal container which he shared with two
Murder of Darfuri student in Sheffield
Police in Sheffield are investigating the death of 25-year-old Anowar Tagabo, a Darfuri refugee, who died following an attack. In the early hours of Sunday 25 May 2014, Anowar Tagabo, a peace and development student at Bradford University, was savagely attacked by a group of men and women near the Viper Rooms, Carver Street, Sheffield.
Child & youth migrants
The third annual UCL Migration Research Unit Student Conference, postgraduates from across disciplines will share their research and contribute to debates in contemporary migration studies. Saturday 14 June 2014, 8.30-6.30pm University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Topics include: Young migrants’ access to education and healthcare Their treatment by different legal regimes Questions of identity and representation
Are refugees welcome here? If not, what can we do about it?
The Campaign to Close Campsfield is hosting a public meeting as part of Oxford Refugee Week. Monday 16 June 2014, 7pm Oxford Town Hall, St Aldate’s, Oxford OX1 1BX Speakers: Colin Yeo – barrister at Garden Court Chambers Dr Mina Fazel – Child psychiatrist, NIHR post-doctoral research fellow, Oxford University Department of Psychiatry Clare Cochrane
No One Is Illegal
A No One Is Illegal meeting on immigration controls. Saturday 14 June 2014, 1-5pm Peoples Museum, Left Bank, Spinning Fields, Manchester M3 3ER Related Links No One Is Illegal
TUC ‘migration messaging’ workshops
The Trades Union Congress and Migrant Voice are running a series workshops on migration. Saturday 28 June 2014, 10-5pm – Manchester Wednesday 2 July 2014, 10-5pm – Southampton Saturday 12 July 2014, 10-5pm – Corby Related links Migrants’ Rights Network TUC
Surround Harmondsworth!
A demonstration outside Harmondsworth detention centre. Saturday 7 June 2014, 1pm Harmondsworth immigration removal centre, Colnbrook by-pass, West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 0HB Related links Movement for Justice Unity Centre Glasgow NUS Black Students Campaign SOAS Detainee Support Group Leeds No Borders London Guantanamo Campaign
Funeral of Christine Case to take place
Christine Case died while being held at Yarl’s Wood Removal Centre on Sunday 30 March 2014. Her family is asking concerned individuals to attend the funeral to show their support. Christine Case, a 40-year-old Jamaican woman, died at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre near Bedford. Emergency services were called to the centre at around 8am but she
Explaining and learning from the ‘UKIP surge’ in South Yorkshire
John Grayson examines the factors behind UKIP’s recent successes in South Yorkshire. On Friday lunchtime 23 May, as the local government results flowed into the BBC TV studio, Nigel Farage nominated Rotherham in South Yorkshire as UKIP’s ‘most significant’ result. He claimed that UKIP had led in the popular vote (41 per cent to Labour’s