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Want to take part in our video series?

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 […]

Restrictions on international students are a disability justice issue

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

We Are Here To Stay: Organising Day (Glasgow)

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

Right to Work Checks Can’t Be Reformed

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

Deportations are about to ramp up

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”

Joint letter to PM against facial recognition technology expansion plans

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

Letter to Prime Minister on far-right violence

With 80 anti-racist and migrant rights organisations, we’ve written to the Prime Minister asking for Parliament to be recalled to address far-right attacks spreading across the country. The Government must address the rampant racism, Islamophobia and anti-migrant hate fuelling this violence. Thank you to our friends at Runnymede Trust for coordinating this letter.

Racism in action

by MRN and Islamophobia Response Unit Far-right violence is spreading from Southport to Manchester and Whitehall accompanied by Islamophobic, racist and anti-migrant chants. The violence followed rampant misinformation online including comments by Tommy Robinson in which he linked the attack with Islam and migrants, whereby he actively encouraged protests against ‘asylum hotel owners’. This led

Stammering at the Border 

I recently told a fellow migrant friend that crossing the UK Border was always a frightening, stressful experience and they asked, well-meaningly, what I even had to fear considering I have nothing to hide and most things in my favour? She was right in a sense — though both non-White and migrant, I have the

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