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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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 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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A history of providing sanctuary? LGBT+ asylum claims in the UK
As LGBT History Month draws to a close, it seems timely to review the progress – and lack of it – in the treatment of… Read more »
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Faith in the system? Claiming asylum on the basis of religion
“This report demonstrates, however, that there is a disparity between Home Office policy guidelines and what is actually happening in practice”. Hands up who’s heard… Read more »
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Politics before protection: the story of Eritrean asylum seekers in the UK
The front page news in the Guardian last week, that “Home Office Eritrea guidance softened to reduce asylum seeker numbers” will not surprise those who… Read more »
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Defining torture, and detaining survivors
In 2001, Parliament introduced the Detention Centre Rules for the “regulation and management” of immigration detention centres. Rules 34 and 35 introduced mechanisms to try and… Read more »
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New factsheet on charter flight removals/deportations
Following on from their brilliant 2013 report, “Collective Expulsion: the case against mass deportation charter flights”, Corporate Watch have produced a new factsheet to provide updating information on the mass deportations carried out by the UK government.
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New power to remove while human rights appeal is pending
From 1 December 2016, the “out of country” appeals regime is extended.
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Signing support: lessons from Manchester
Yesterday on the blog, we wrote about the importance of preparing in case of being detained, and the different things you can think about and get ready in case the worst happens to you. One of the most important aspects of this is having a system in place so that if you are detained, people know straight away and start taking action for you.
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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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