2018

Remembering Kamil Ahmad

Last Friday 29th of June, Bristolians gathered at City Hall to honour Kamil Ahmad and Bijan Ebrahimi, and others who have been failed by the system. Kamil and Bijam were both disabled men who came to the UK seeking safety and sanctuary. Both of them were murdered in Bristol. Kamil came to England from Iraq, […]

Head of BAME Connectivity Programme – BTEG

Location: London Part-Time (25 Hours per week) Salary: £39-41 K NJC scale PO (47-48) (Pro-rata) Deadline: 13 July 5PM The post is funded by the City Bridge Trust for a fixed 2 years The Black Training and Enterprise Group (BTEG) is a national charity delivering programmes for young black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people

Employer Engagement and Communications Internship – BTEG

Location: London Part-time: 14 hours per week   Duration: Six months starting in September 2018 (subject to recruitment timetable).   Salary: London living wage, currently £10.20 p/h.   Applications must arrive by 5pm Friday 13 July 2018 Interviews will be held 26 July 2018 Moving on Up (MoU) is a collaborative initiative between Trust for London

Gender-based Violence Caseworker (Immigration) – Praxis

Location: London (Praxis, Bethnal Green). Job type: Part-time (14 hrs per week) Duration: Fixed contract up to the 31st of March 2019 (with possibility of extension subject to funding). Category:Advice, Information , Legal Sector:Human Rights Salary: £11,282 (NJC point 27- £28,206 -pro rata inclusive of London Weighting) Praxis is looking for a dedicated caseworker with good immigration knowledge to provide one-to-one specialist

Migrant caseworker (hospital-based) – Praxis

Location –London Multiple locations, including outreach work in hospitals.   Job Type: Full time  35 hours Duration: fixed 2 years contract Category Advice, Information, Legal Sectors : Human Rights Salary: NJC Scale Pt 27-28 (£28,206 inclusive of London Weighting). We are looking for an energetic OISC-level 2 caseworker for an exciting position delivering immigration and generalist advice and casework to non-EEA

Immigration Caseworker & Trainer – Praxis

Location: London, Connection St Martins (Westminster). Job Type: Full time 35 hours Duration: Fixed 18 months contract Category Advice, Information, Legal Sectors : Human Rights Salary: SCP Scale Pt 31 (£31,764 inclusive of London Weighting) We are looking for an energetic OISC-level 2 immigration caseworker & trainer for an exciting position building the capacity and knowledge of grass-roots organisations working with homeless

Call for participants – Disabled Refugee & Asylum Seeker Research Project

Tim Pickering, a postgraduate student at University College London (UCL), is conducting a research project that focuses on the challenges faced by Disabled Refugees in the UK.    As part of this, he is looking for potential participants to interview who have experience of working with disabled refugees/asylum seeker, within the refugee and disability movements,

Latest immigration bail conditions keeping migrants detained indefinitely

A briefing by Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID), based on its support work, reveals that the latest update to bail conditions are giving some of the most vulnerable individuals in detention an inhumane alternative: stay detained indefinitely (which increasingly appears to be the default scenario), or become homeless. In January 2018, the government changed bail

We are all here because he was there – Remembering Sivanandan

The following is a transcript of MRN Chair Wayne Farah’s speech at an event celebrating the legacy of anti-racist intellectual and activist A. Sivanandan. The event, organised by the Institute of Race Relations, was filmed in full and is available to watch at the bottom of this post.  “Thank you everyone at the Institute of

Study confirms positive economic impact of immigration

In a study published in Science Advances last week, French economists have used cutting-edge statistical to demonstrate the positive impact of immigration on European economies. Drawing on a prize-winning dynamic statistical model and 30 years of data from 15 countries in Western Europe, the researchers distinguished different types of migration flow and isolated the macroeconomic

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