The National Coalition for Anti-Deportation Campaigns conference and 18th annual general meeting. Saturday 5 October 2013, 10.30-5pm Praxis Community Projects, Pott Street, Bethnal Green, London E2 0EF Related links NCADC
Theme: Education
Two public events in October at the IRR
In October 2013, the IRR will be holding two public events at its Kings Cross office. The first, on Thursday 3 October, ‘Bad news for refugees’, is a conversation between Greg Philo and Frances Webber, on media coverage and government policy on asylum issues. Greg Philo is the Research Director of the Glasgow Media Group
Bad news for refugees
A conversation between Greg Philo and Frances Webber on media coverage and government policy. Greg Philo is the Research Director of the Glasgow Media Group and author of Bad News for Refugees and Frances Webber is a retired human rights barrister and author of Borderline Justice: the Fight for Refugee and Migrant Rights. Thursday 3
Policing immigration through the NHS
Below we reproduce a submission to a current government consultation by Frances Webber, a retired immigration barrister. Response to consultation document ‘Controlling immigration – regulating migrant access to health services in the UK’. I am responding as a recently retired barrister specialising since the early 1980s in immigration casework. I do not believe that a
Stop Home Office campaign of hate
Demonstration outside UKBA offices against the Home Office’s anti-migrant poster campaign. Monday 9 September 2013, 4.30-6.30pm UKBA Office, Festival Court, 200 Brand Street, Govan, Glasgow G51 1DH Speakers: Robina Qureshi – Positive Action in Housing Margaret Woods – Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees Related links Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees Positive Action in Housing
PAFRAS benefit concert
A benefit gig as part of PAFRAS’ tenth anniversary celebrations. Saturday 7 September 2013, 7pm Wharf Chambers, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds LS2 7EQ Event includes: Bands Food Raffle RELATED LINKS Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers Wharf Chambers
The shameful ‘Go Home’ campaign
The rhetoric on migrants shows how politicians and the media have created, and embedded, racism in British politics. Recent controversy over the Home Office ’Go Home’ campaign on ‘illegal’ immigrants highlights the way in which politicians try to outdo each other to win over the ‘racist’ electorate in Britain – an electorate they and the
Pat Guerin: an anti-racist pioneer
On 13 June 2013 our comrade Irish anti-racist activist Pat Guerin died aged 56. Born in Dublin, Pat was second eldest in a family of four. Pat grew up in a caring family giving help and support to his mother who suffered with arthritis and who spent a lot of time in hospital during his
Landlords as immigration police?
Below we reproduce a submission to a current government consultation by Frances Webber, a retired immigration barrister. Response to consultation document ‘Tackling illegal immigration in privately rented accommodation’. 1. This response does not use the online questionnaire, which frames questions too narrowly and leaves no room for consideration of the principles behind the proposals. 2.
Responses to the government’s ‘go home’ campaign
Anti-racists are mobilising against the government’s ‘summer of attacks on immigrants’. The Home Office has ramped up enforcement measures against ’irregular’ migrants, with its ‘go home’ campaign and immigration spot checks at stations. It is also ‘consulting’ on access to healthcare, undocumented working and housing for migrants. In response, various organisations and groups are organising,