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Palestinian Land Day 2025

Migrant justice requires land justice. We cannot achieve land justice without acknowledging why people are displaced or forced from their land, and we cannot achieve land justice without standing for the right of return of those forcibly displaced from their land and homes! Palestinians are forcibly displaced or turned into refugees by settler colonialism, and […]

AI Event in Parliament

On 26 March 2025, MRN staff and participants in the AI under Watch project presented our findings in the Public Voices In AI Event at the Houses of Parliament.  In August 2024, we received funding from the Public Voices in AI Fund to investigate the potential role and impact of AI on people seeking asylum

Community Organisers Words Matter Training

We are really excited to welcome our new Community Organisers! Our Words Matter Community Organisers training with Common Languages (11-13 March 2025) was filled with amazing conversations and meaningful reflection on power, language, narrative change, and justice. We had sessions on Words Matter, Language Justice, Collective Care, a zine making workshop, as well as more

International Womens Day 2025

This International Women’s Day, we reaffirm our commitment to standing in solidarity with all marginalised women: Global South, racialised, migrant, working class, queer and trans women. We recognise the history of International Women’s Day as a championing of working class, socialist women’s movements in defiance of imperialism, colonialism and capitalism. And we recognise the dangers

Trauma, Mental Health and Migration Zine

Co-authored with the National Survivor User Network (NSUN) DOWNLOAD THE ZINE DOWNLOAD A PLAIN TEXT VERSION OF THE ZINE Summary Trauma, disability justice, and migrant justice Dialogue around trauma as part of disability justice, and also migrant justice, remains largely absent. The creation or exacerbation of mental ill-health, distress and trauma is often caused by

Border Security Bill Overview

The Border Security Bill is making its way through Parliament. There’s been a lot of misunderstanding around what this Bill actually represents, and so we are here to clear things up for you. Yes, the Bill restarts deportation agreements and reduces routes to claim asylum, and this is horrible enough, but this is not just

Refugees who made “dangerous journeys” could be blocked from UK citizenship

The good character requirement has been updated on 10th February 2025 to block some refugees from naturalising as British citizens if their entry to the UK was criminalised, i.e. they did not arrive with the required immigration documentation, such as a visa or electronic travel authorisation (ETA). This specifically applies to people who traveled to

Counter-terror and the Border Security Bill

What next? We call on all those who stand in solidarity with migrants to resist the Border Security Bill and all processes of criminalisation and marginalisation in our communities. Read our specific policy asks here. Email your MP here. Find a template to contact your MP here. On 30th January, the Government introduced the Border

Misgendering as state policy: Transphobia and the expansion of violence against migrants

Interim changes were brought in on 22nd January to the policy governing the treatment of trans+ people in immigration detention. There is no timeline for when new guidance will be brought in to replace previous guidance that governed trans+ people in all kinds of detention, including immigration detention and prisons. Even still, the interim guidance

Renters’ Rights Bill – International Students Know Your Rights Update

The Renters’ Rights Bill is currently progressing through Parliament, and is predicted to pass by the summer, having passed the House of Commons on 14th January. There are a number of ways in which the Bill will positively affect you as international students, so we’ve gone through the new Renters’ Rights Bill so you can

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