To mark International Migrant Day, we are excited to ask you to save the date for our highly anticipated Migrant Justice and the Far-Right Summit this spring. Inspired by a ratcheting up of racist rhetoric, Government policy and demonstrations on our streets, MRN is putting together a day to bring together the movement to take […]
When: 16 December 2025 Time: 6- 7.30pm In May 2025, the Government published the new Immigration White Paper entitled ‘Restoring Control Over the Immigration System’. The 82-page document contains a huge number of proposed policies targeting a wide range of migrant groups, including the Government’s intention to extend indefinite leave to remain (ILR) from 5
Worried about immigration raids on your business and community? There has been a significant increase in immigration raids on businesses especially car washes, nail bars, hair salons, convenience stores, construction sites and takeaways. They are almost always targeting people who are from migrant and racialised backgrounds. We know many many of the raids are conducted
On Monday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood unveiled a raft of yet more anti-migrant measures, as this Government is intent on appeasing Reform and the far-right. What has followed are racist assumptions hidden behind the excuse of a racialised Home Secretary – again – making migrants, including people seeking asylum and refugees, more precarious through appeals to
“From what we know of the proposed measures in the immigration White Paper, they appear to be punitive. Wide-ranging evidence suggests that long pathways are detrimental to individuals and communities. No one should be subject to them. Rather than exemptions for some and not for others, we need a thorough overhaul of settlement and citizenship
Over the last year, anti-migrant racism and transphobia are rising. That’s why showing up and building strong intersectional movements for change is absolutely vital. As migrants, as trans people, as People of Colour, as queers, as people who stand in solidarity with them, we will continue to fight, just as our ancestors before us always
On 22nd July 2025, changes to the Immigration Salary List (ISL) were introduced as part of the Government’s Immigration White Paper reforms to the immigration system in the UK. Included in the latest changes were the abolition of the ISL and the introduction of a Temporary Shortage List, however the ISL still exists in a
People are not goods to be exchanged. The long-awaited UK – France border deal has finally been agreed. It has been dubbed the “One in, One out” agreement because migrants arriving in the UK via a “small boat” will be returned to France, and in exchange France will send someone else to the UK via
The Government has announced the first changes to be introduced from the Immigration White Paper. These changes concern increases to required so-called skill and salary thresholds, including limiting shortage occupations that people can be sponsored to fill. The Government claims this is to “restore control of Britain’s borders”, but these arbitrary adjustments look more like
Belfast has continued to be the largest hotspot for immigration raids, far outpacing the number of raids in all other areas that we have data for (see our 2024 report here). This has not changed. Similarly, Birkenhead and Stranraer have remained in second and third place, quite ahead of anywhere else in Britain. As part
