Yumna has started at Right to Remain this week as our new legal education officer. Yumna will be working on our resources about the asylum and immigration system, including the Right to Remain Toolkit. She will be delivering our legal workshops and working with asylum and migrant groups across the UK.
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Eiri Ohtani appointed to lead Right to Remain
Right to Remain is delighted to announce that Eiri Ohtani will be joining the organisation as our new Director.
Eiri has over twenty years experience in the migration sector, covering a wide-range of roles. Eiri previously set up and ran the charity Asylum Support Appeals Project, and is well-known for setting up and running the Detention Forum for ten years.
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The struggle of seeking asylum in the UK as a woman
Seeking asylum in the UK as a woman can result in legal and practical struggles to establish the need for protection as a refugee. This blog post will explain the key struggles faced and how the Home Office have applied assistance over the years to female immigrants, whilst also discussing the problem areas that still remain today.
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Evidence of physical and/or mental health issues in asylum claims
As a result of your experiences that have led you to claim asylum, you may have physical and/or mental health problems. If you wish these physical and/or mental health issues to form part of your asylum claim, you will need to provide evidence of them to the Home Office (and to the courts, later on in an asylum claim).
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Decolonising Asylum?
Our Management Committee member, Hyab Yohannes, considers what it would mean to “Decolonise Asylum” – countering the exclusive practices of othering, bordering and ordering.
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Border Nation by Leah Cowan
Leah Cowan’s Border Nation (published by Pluto Press) is a short, sharp, incisive analysis of the colonial origins of borders, the violence of immigration control and the profit motive driving so much of immigration policy and practice.
There are quotable lines on every page of this short book, which manages to dig deep into the issues and link up weighty ideas while still being very accessible.
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Guide to right to rent checks from Law for Life
The organisation Law for Life have produced an information guide about right to rent. The guide includes information about who has a right to rent, when you need to prove this right and when you don’t, how to prove a right to rent, changes as a result of Brexit and Covid-19, what you can do if you are discriminated against in this process and more.
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Creating the Young Asylum Guide
Gina Antchandie from Croydon Council talks about the creative process of developing the Young Asylum Guide in collaboration with Lisa from Right to Remain and young unaccompanied minors.
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Solidarity: a relic of the past, or an urgent principle for our times?
At Right to Remain, solidarity is a key phrase and concept in our work. We have long grappled with how best to define it and how to deploy it meaningfully. We see solidarity as a guiding principle for our activities and theory of change – but does it actually resonate with those we work with?
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Love, joy and solidarity amid the pain
We review Free To Be Me: Refugee Stories From the Lesbian Immigration Support Group.
The book, which is raising funds for the Manchester-based LISG, features stories from LISG members and volunteers – rich narratives of love, pain, brutal treatment, immense suffering, and survival.
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2020: what a year
Yes, well. It’s been quite a year.
Aside from, well, everything we’ve had a busy year recruiting new members of our Management Committee, appointing new roles within the Committee AND we’ve had three fab new staff members join us. That’s been a lot of zoom calls.
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Book review: Deporting Black Britons
Lisa reviews Deporting Black Britons, by Luke de Norona. Through the stories and lives of four men, de Noronha explores the human impact of the UK’s deportation policy (and Jamaica’s compliance with it) and thematic aspects of state racism.
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- We have temporarily closed our online shop
- Knowledge is Power; Evidence workshop. 21 July, 10am – 1pm
- Online meeting, 1 July: oppose the expansion of Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre! With Coalition to Close Campsfield
- Knowledge is Power; Detention and Enforcement workshop. 8 July, 10am – 1pm
- New Knowledge is Power sessions on asylum appeals and evidence – in response to our community’s needs
Legal updates
- Lessons not learned: A reflection on Windrush Day
- A new Home Office policy on illegal working: If you work, can you lose your asylum support?
- Consultation open now! The government closed Campsfield over how detention harms people. Now it wants to more than double its capacity.
- New Knowledge is Power sessions on asylum appeals and evidence – in response to our community’s needs
- The King’s Speech and Government Briefing
Events
- Knowledge is Power; Evidence workshop. 21 July, 10am – 1pm
- Online meeting, 1 July: oppose the expansion of Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre! With Coalition to Close Campsfield
- Knowledge is Power; Detention and Enforcement workshop. 8 July, 10am – 1pm
- New Knowledge is Power sessions on asylum appeals and evidence – in response to our community’s needs
- Workshop: Introduction to the Right to Remain Toolkit, 23 June
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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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