Editorials, guest pieces, analyses, events and updates from the Migrants’ Rights Network, addressing key issues in migration policy, the migration/refugee sector, and the struggles for equality, justice and dignity more broadly.
We all need a secure place to call home and we all want to ensure that the UK emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic as a strong, cohesive and tolerant nation on the post-Brexit world stage. This position necessitates calling on the UK to ensure fair and compassionate immigration decision-making in which the dignity and talents […]
Investigative report on the UK’s Highly Skilled Commonwealth Migrants of colour finds that ‘inhuman’ Home Office policies are not only costly to local authorities, they are also dismantling Highly Skilled Commonwealth Migrants’ visa route and ability to remain, highlighting that Windrush lessons have not been learnt. As part of a cross-government enforcement of ‘hostile
At the end of last year, the new points-based immigration system came into effect and whilst the most explicit changes around Brexit and ending EU free movement are clear, the government’s intended outcomes are still obscure. Statements around the government’s aims with the system have been conflicting, but there is the underlying message that they
In August 2020, the Migrants’ Rights Network (‘MRN’) alongside the Kanlungan Filipino Consortium (‘KFC’), the3million and Migrants at Work (MAW’) launched a survey aimed at workers who are either migrants or people of colour, who work in the South of England, London or the West Midlands, in order to understand the lived experience of those
MRN has been working with the Highly Skilled Migrants (HSMs) and their families who remain in legal limbo with no indefinite leave to remain (ILR) in the UK. The interim report’s Executive Summary outlines some of the most concerning findings about the Home Office’ policy and decision-making and the impacts of these on people who
We have written this guide for all migrants living in the UK, including those without documents and those trying to regularise their immigration status, including asylum seekers. This guide is to help you understand your rights in a situation where immigration rules are changing regularly. It is also useful for anyone who cannot prove they
We welcome this much needed call for evidence. This evidence submission will address question 1 of the inquiry, “What do you consider to be the main causes of racial and ethnic disparities in the UK, and why?” We will provide evidence that is specific to the effects of the ‘hostile environment’ policy on migrants and
In October, MRN joined NACCOM and Asylum Matters to write to the Prime Minister calling for a reversal to the decision to evict people with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) into homelessness. We were joined by 226 organisations and 575 individual co-signatories that asked the government to: Immediately halt the evictions of people who
On the 24th of November, we met online for the quarterly London network meeting. This quarter, we chose to focus on the impact of Covid-19 on frontline migrant workers and communities of colour. We were joined by Patrick Vernon, prominent Windrush campaigner, to learn more about his work in this area, as well as Danielle
This month, MRN had the opportunity to share about our ongoing campaigns to students on an immigration law course at Goldsmiths University. Many of these students were first and second generation immigrants and it was an encouragement to hear their commitment to achieving equality for all migrants. Next term, students will have the opportunity
