At Right to Remain, our Knowledge is Power workshops bring the Toolkit to life through shared learning, practical activities and conversations.

On Thursday 26th November, 10am–1pm, we’re running an online workshop on building collective safety against immigration enforcement and detention.

Our small but mighty public legal education team of two, Louise and Ally, delivers four core workshops every quarter, usually with around 30 people attending each session. However, our workshop on immigration detention and enforcement consistently attracts fewer people than the others.

Immigration enforcement is increasing across the UK, while the government is planning a major expansion of immigration detention. At the same time, shorter grants of leave, longer routes to settlement and increasingly complex immigration rules are creating greater insecurity, putting more people at risk of losing their status and facing immigration enforcement.

These issues are connected, and immigration enforcement affects far more people than those immediately facing detention or removal.

We encourage everyone to join this workshop, whether you’re going through the immigration or asylum system yourself, supporting others, or have never encountered immigration enforcement directly.

We all have a role in building collective safety, and we don’t need to wait until someone is at risk to start.

Together, we’ll explore ways to:

• Understand immigration enforcement, how it works, what is changing and how it affects people’s everyday lives.
• Understand immigration detention, people’s rights and the harm detention causes to individuals, families and communities.
• Know our rights and respond to enforcement, including reporting appointments, immigration raids and enforcement at home, at work and in public.
• Make safety plans from day one, rather than waiting until someone is at immediate risk, and explore what we can do together if someone is detained.
• Use the Right to Remain Toolkit to find practical information, support others with legal information without giving legal advice, and build collective safety in our communities.

You can read about previous sessions here