Preparing in case of detention
Detention generally happens very suddenly. That’s why it’s so important to be prepared. Our Toolkit contains important information about preparing in case of detention, and… Read more »
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Stand-off with prison profiteers at the Tower of London
By Marienna Pope-Weidemann, communications coordinator, Right to Remain The Tower of London has been a tourist attraction for as long as anyone can remember.… Read more »
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“It was like I’ve been blind for years, and now I can see”
By Lisa Matthews, Coordinator at Right to Remain. The last few weeks has been a flurry of workshops. Some of these have been on understanding the… Read more »
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Judicial reviews and preventing forced removal
The Home Office published new enforcement instructions and guidance on 31 October 2016 on, among other things, judicial reviews and injunctions.
The new guidance limits even further the situations in which judicial review proceedings will lead to the Home Office suspending a forced removal or deportation.
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“Unjustifiable, unnecessary, punitive and unlawful”: we speak to the BBC about immigration curfews
Back in May, we shared the news that the Home Office had been routinely imposing curfews (after someone obtained release from immigration detention) without any power to do so, making the action unlawful.
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Ripples of support to form a tidal wave of solidarity
A guest post from our friends MaMA in Liverpool, ahead of their Transmutable Voices event on 12 November. There are not a lot of creative… Read more »
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Reimagining violence: Hannah Arendt and the bureaucratisation of life in immigration detention
This guest post by Amanda Schmid-Scott, PhD Researcher at the University of Exeter, asks: what might a re-imagining of violence reveal about the lived experience… Read more »
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Right to Remain group launches in Sheffield
By Marienna Pope-Weidemann, communications coordinator, Right to Remain It started with just a handful of locals, as these things often do. Like many international volunteers,… Read more »
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“How can this be legal?” Incredulity and anger when Unlocking Detention
By Lisa Matthews, Coordinator at Right to Remain Over the last few months, I’ve run several workshops across the UK, engaging communities on the issue… Read more »
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What does detention mean to you?
By Lisa Matthews, Coordinator at Right to Remain Unlocking Detention 2016 starts on Monday, and runs until 18 December. There are so many ways to… Read more »
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From Calais to Croydon: legal information and refugee solidarity
On Monday, we wrote on the blog about our annual gathering in Manchester on 3 September. The afternoon part of the event included workshops on… Read more »
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Unlocking Detention at Right to Remain’s annual gathering
On Monday on the blog we wrote about our annual gathering in Manchester on 3 September. The afternoon part of the event included workshops on… Read more »
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