A few weeks ago Stephen Small, G4S managing director for Immigration and Borders, and Jeremy Stafford, Serco CEO for the UK and Europe were forced to defend their record before the Home Affairs Committee into the asylum system. You can read a full report by John Grayson* on the Home Affairs Committee’s 25 June asylum
Asylum seekers’ experiences of forced labour are documented in an important new report. Not much is known about those subjected to forced labour in the UK. Working in a labour market that, by design, is exploitative, abusive, secretive and violent (threatened or realised), their existence is frequently ignored. And, but for the work of investigative
Tahir Mehmood, a 43-year-old Pakistani man, has died in Pennine House, a short-term holding facility near Manchester airport. A typically terse statement from the Home Office reveals: ‘A 43-year-old man from Pakistan died in Pennine House short term holding facility and his death has been reported to the police and the coroner. The family of
The Belgian government has set its face against saving the life of its citizen, on hunger and thirst strike in prison in Morocco, despite protests in a number of countries. As we go to press, Ali Aarrass, a dual Belgian-Moroccan national, is in a critical condition in a prison in Salé, Morocco. As of 30
A combination of documentary and theatre in north London looks at twenty-first century poverty from the point of view of those experiencing it. Lost Nation, by Red Room Productions, explores the human cost of the government’s politics of austerity. Beginning with a short film, local Brent residents explain in detail the realities of low wage
Below we reproduce a call from the Edge Fund for people to join its Advisory Group to help make it truly representative. The Edge Fund was initiated by a group of philanthropists and activists in early 2012 to explore how funds could be distributed so as to devolve the power of donors and create real
No one should be surprised at the death of Jimmy Mubenga at the hands of three G4S officers. Twenty years ago, in 1993, a ‘specialist’ squad of deportation police – SO13, arrived at the home of Joy Gardner in Crouch End, London, to arrest and deport her and her 5-year-old son to Jamaica as overstayers.
A seminar looking at the impact of dispersal policies on pregnant women seeking asylum. Tuesday 9 July 2013, 10-12.30pm Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 27 Sussex Place, Regent’s Park, London NW1 4RG Related links Maternity Action Refugee Council
Medical Justice’s most recent report argues that the government must stop holding pregnant women in immigration detention. Given that asylum seekers are reduced to mere statistics as a matter of routine – to meet arbitrary removal targets, for example – it is ironic that when carrying another life, asylum seekers are not deemed worthy of
The launch of a report about refugees and asylum seekers’ experiences of forced labour in England. Tuesday 2 July 2013, 3-5pm Hurley House, 1 Dewsbury Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS11 5DQ RELATED LINKS Precarious lives
