On Monday 10 April, Coram Voice announced the winners of Voices 2017, its national writing competition for care-experienced young people, at a ceremony attended by… Read more »
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Reporting to the Home Office: exploring connections to detention and solidarity
This is a guest post by Andrew Burridge, independent researcher and former volunteer with Bristol Signing Support.
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Learning, friendship and solidarity blossom in Sheffield
In Sheffield this month, Right to Remain and a new local volunteer group, Early Asylum Support, ran the second in our new programme of information sessions for newly-arrived asylum seekers.
The sessions are focused on the crucial first steps of the legal process, and in particular the asylum substantive interview. The content is based on the Right to Remain Toolkit and the constant learning we do with asylum seekers and their supporters in communities across the UK.
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Docs Not Cops take action against border enforcement in the NHS
By Evan Luckes @OnlyMeNursey Evan Luckes is a nurse in the Emergency Department at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. Following Wednesday’s protest by Docs Not… Read more »
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Surviving Disbelief & Denial: women in the asylum appeals process
The vast majority of women seeking asylum in Britain are survivors, too. They need to go to court to win their right to asylum. They are subjected not only to the toxic culture of disbelief confronting British survivors but to a deeply embedded culture of denial underpinned by racist and anti-refugee sentiment. And a new report by Asylum Aid is set to reveal how thoroughly that system is failing them.
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Charter flight deportations: ‘ghost flights’ that are an attack on justice
Last night, activists blockaded Stansted Airport to stop the departure of the scheduled charter flight mass deportation to Nigeria and Ghana. At the time of… Read more »
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Charter flight deportations: ‘ghost flights’ that stop access to justice
Last night, activists blockaded Stansted Airport to stop the departure of the scheduled charter flight mass deportation to Nigeria and Ghana. At the time of writing, the blockade continues and the charter flight has not departed. Why have activists taken such a drastic action?
Charter flight removals/deportations are one of the shadiest aspects of the UK’s asylum and immigration process.
Shielded from public oversight, information protected from freedom of information requests, every month these ‘ghost flights’ forcibly remove people en masse from the UK.
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Windows onto Morton Hall: recent demonstration and today’s inspection report
Image from Unlocking Detention 2016, submitted by René Cassin This morning, the report of the unannounced inspection of Morton Hall detention centre in Lincolnshire, has… Read more »
read moreBrutality at Brook House highlights urgency behind this week’s detention debate
An impassioned and powerful debate on detention took place amongst MPs at Westminster Hall on Tuesday. The debate followed harrowing reports that emerged from Brook… Read more »
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Empathy & active listening: liberal pursuit or transformative practice?
By Tatiana Garavito @TatGaravito Tatiana Garavito is a migrant’ rights activist and the former director of IRMO and Latin American Women Rights Services, two human rights… Read more »
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Immigration detention has no place in a happy, healthy society
“This experience of the detention centre eliminated all my self-confidence and made me feel humiliated and like a slave. Even after they let me go,… Read more »
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Mijente says living with Trump is teaching us to create, not wait for, the world we want to see
By Marienna Pope-Weidemann, communications coordinator, Right to Remain @MariennaPW This is the third instalment of the Still We Dream series, where we’ll hear from grassroots migrant rights… Read more »
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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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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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