Hyab Yohannes writes how the government policies which keep people in a state of ‘rightlessness’ represent the political outrage and moral regression of our time.
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Kweku Adoboli had served his time. Deporting him was unspeakably cruel
Kweku Adoboli, who had lived in the UK since he was 12 years old, was deported last week. We wrote in the Guardian about how this happened, and how his story is all too common.
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“Take courage and keep working, there are more of us than you think.”
Robert Swinfen, Treasurer and Management Committee member at Right To Remain, writes about how everyone has important skills to bring to a campaign.
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“I am proud to be a small part of the fight for migration justice.”
In the latest in our series, our management committee member Catherine Hurley talks about her experience with, and resistance to, the UK’s ‘hostile environment’ immigration policies.
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Hundreds of people made to take routine 40-mile trips as part of their asylum and immigration claims
Hundreds of people are being made take routine 40-mile trips for Home Office meetings that can last as short as two minutes, as part of their asylum and immigration claims.
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Victory as Home Office scraps secret data-sharing deal
On Monday the Home Office announced that it would fully scrap a secret arrangement that allowed it to access patient’s NHS data without their permission.
This is an important victory against the ‘hostile environment’.
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“This is when I woke to the force of solidarity community campaigning.”
Tienga Ngale is co-chair of the Right to Remain management committee. Here he writes about how the support he has given to and received from different communities kept him going through his most difficult situations.
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Thinking about evidence in family life, rights of the child cases
At one of the training sessions we ran this week with volunteers who are keen to learn more and do more for people seeking the right to remain in the UK – we looked at evidence. What ‘evidence’ means, in the context of asylum, immigration and human rights cases. How someone can get this evidence, and how others can help them. We discussed how important documentary evidence is, when so many legal cases are refused on the basis of credibility – the Home Office or the courts don’t believe you are telling the truth.
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Freed Voices statement in support of the Stansted 15
Between them, the Freed Voices group have lost over 20 years to detention in this country. “Freed Voices stand in solidarity with the 15 brave individuals who are facing trial for taking part in a peaceful protest and stopping a charter flight at Stansted airport..”
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Solidarity with Stansted Defendants 5th November demo
Stand in solidarity with the Stansted 15 defendants at Chelmsford Court! Their trial began a month ago and is still ongoing. On Monday 5th November groups will be offering support, and showing their opposition to Home Office deportations.
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‘Life On The Outside’: Women speak about surviving Ireland’s asylum system
On the ‘Life On The Outside’ podcast, Bairbre Flood talks to three women who’ve survived Direct Provision: Elsie Nwaora, Nomaxabiso Maye & Florence Eriamantoe.
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“Who doesn’t want another chance?”
“I’ve had my life and purpose affirmed again and again by the asylum and refugee led groups who attend and shape our annual gathering, and by having a management committee which is balanced between those who are allies and those who are experts by experience. To be amongst these people, for me, has been being deeply and truly to be amongst ‘my people’.”
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Events
- Newcastle; thinking with our communities – detention and beyond, Saturday 31 May
- Online Solidarity Rally for Fatou – End detention! Stop deportation!
- 14 May: Knowledge is Power online workshop, evening session
- Hope and Justice Collective Meeting – 27th March in London
- Thinking with our communities in Sheffield: detention and beyond detention
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When people reach the UK, the struggle isn’t over. It's a hostile environment. Right to Remain relies on grants from charitable trusts and on donations from people like you. Your donation will help us to help people in their struggles for the right to remain in the UK, and to campaign for migration justice.
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Right to Remain works with communities, groups and organisations across the UK, providing information, resources, training and assistance to help people to establish their right to remain, and to challenge injustice in the immigration and asylum system. Right to Remain is a registered charity (charity number 1192934).
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