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
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
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
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.
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
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
The new Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill brings oppressive counter-terrorism powers into immigration. The Bill announced as part of the King’s Speech is part of a turn towards approaching migration through counter-terror, making space for even greater surveillance of and denial of rights for migrants. The Bill will propose powers that have previously been
