June 2020

Immigration Document Checks & Workplace Raids

This guide is intended to assist trade unionists at all levels to meet these challenges through negotiation and collective bargaining. This booklet  covers: Background to workplace immigration controls What the law says Issues for trade unions What you can do It will:• help you deal with document checks by negotiating agreements with management• give you […]

Survey: Impact of Covid-19 lockdown measures on international students

The Migrants’ Rights Network and Unis Resist Border Controls are seeking to understand the impact of Covid-19 on Tier 4 international students in the UK. We have heard a number of students already that they have or are facing destitution, and are also now facing threats of expulsion from the higher education/university establishments because of an inability to

June 2020 Newsletter- The Heat is Still On!

May has seen expected disappointments, climb downs, shock and us uttering the words ‘YES!’ in relation to immigration but at least we have had some glorious weather. This was the month which bore the dreaded return of the Immigration Bill to Parliament with a flurry, and we witnessed its unfortunate passing at its second reading.

Letter to Sec of State for Health & Social Care- PHE Covid-19 BAME Report

On 4 June 2020, the Migrants’ Rights Network along with the Coalition of Race Equality  (CORE) Members wrote to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the failure of the Public Health England report to challenge racial disproportionality in COVID-19 deaths The letter states that the “report contains no recommendations about what

CEO- Maternity Cover

Want to lead an organisation that stands in solidarity alongside migrants in their fight for rights and justice? Then join us! We are looking for an energetic and motivated Chief Executive Officer (Maternity Cover) to manage the organisation whilst the current CEO takes maternity leave.  We are looking for an exceptional individual to provide effective

The month of Immigration Highs & Lows

May has seen expected disappointments, climb downs, shock and us uttering the words ‘YES!’ in relation to immigration but at least we have had some glorious weather. This was the month which bore the dreaded return of the Immigration Bill to Parliament with a flurry, and we witnessed its unfortunate passing at its second reading.

Local Authority Responses to people with NRPF during the pandemic

This project was borne out of a concern that people with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) were being left out of the measures to protect people from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the instructions from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to ‘bring everyone in’ (MHCLG, 2020), the authors found

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