This Black History Month, London For Sudan and Migrants’ Rights Network are amplifying the Sudanese voices and stories that often are ignored, through a video series that we will share to social media. We are looking for 10 members of the Sudanese community in the UK who would like to take part in this video […]
While the Government has decided to accept the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC) recommendation to retain the Graduate Visa Scheme (GVS), it has also announced a number of restrictions on international students. This includes ensuring that face-to-face teaching is the primary mode of teaching, restricting remote learning. Before the pandemic, the visa rules for international students
Time: Saturday, October 19, 2024 • 10:00AM- 5:00PM Location: Civic House, 26 Civic St , Glasgow, G4 9RH GB Host Contact Info: [email protected] We are Here To Stay: an organising day for disrupting migration systems and narratives Calling people to join the Migrants’ Rights Network and Ubuntu Women Shelter to organise and build local resistance to the
The Challenge the Checks campaign does not simply wish to reform right to work checks, we want to abolish them. However, we know this is a goal that will take time to achieve, so we are pushing for non-reformist reforms. These are changes to a system with the aim of working towards it being completely
sign up to our newsletter Dear supporters, Summer’s over, Parliament is back and the Hostile Environment is ramping up. Before we dive into our round-up of what we’ve been busy working on while Parliament has been off on recess, we want to share our grief and rage following the death of 12 people in the
Earlier this year, we received responses from the Home Office to our Freedom of Information (FOI) requests regarding the treatment of queer and trans+ migrants, including people seeking asylum, in the UK immigration system. It has been disappointingly difficult to get any real answers from the Home Office – many of these responses revolved around
Key details Date: Thursday 5 September 2024 Time: 5-7pm Location: Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, E1 5QJ Summary Following a successful workshop for caseworkers in May, we are running a second session exploring challenges and strategies for frontline migration support services in addressing issues related to gender and sexuality within casework spaces.
Immigration raids are a fear mechanism. They are a form of racist State intimidation and divide racialised communities. Our new Hostile Office report- Immigration Raids: An Anatomy of Racist Intimidation -dissects the secretive and opaque nature of Immigration Enforcement’s intelligence gathering, guidance on multi-agency operations and police cooperation. In addition, raids have a disproportionate impact on racialised
The Government has just announced its plans to deport 14,500 undocumented migrants within six months, via the expansion of detention and removal centres, and the expansion of the National Crime Agency, part of the Border Security Command, through the deployment of up to 100 new specialist intelligence and investigations officers, to target “people smuggling gangs”
We wrote to the PM as a coalition of human rights, racial justice, migrants’ rights and civil liberties groups following his statement on the recent far right violence across the country and plans to introduce a “wider deployment of facial recognition technology.” We joined him in condemning the racist, violent and disorderly scenes across the
