“I am just my words”: problems in the asylum process and how to overcome them
Is one of your new year resolutions to find out more about the UK asylum system? Here’s a free, easy way to keep it! Come… Read more »
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No more Detention
Pinar Aksu is a community worker and activist. Here she writes about the continuing scandal that is immigration detention, and the need to get involved… Read more »
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2017: a year in review
Amid an increasingly difficult situation for migration justice, and progressive politics in general, 2017 has witnessed some inspiring resistance. This year has seen over 70… Read more »
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Our work in communities across the UK
A recent fortnight provides a snapshot of the work Right to Remain does in communities across the UK. Starting in Manchester, we participated in the… Read more »
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Manchester City Council first local authority to pass motion condemning detention
Yesterday, Manchester City Council become the first local authority in Britain to pass a motion condemning immigration detention. You can read the motion here. The… Read more »
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EU rough sleepers to get their day in court
Tuesday 21st November will mark the beginning of a three day court case, where charities are challenging the government’s policy of detaining and deporting… Read more »
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“Detention is a filing cabinet for human beings”: Parliamentary Meeting on Immigration Detention
Earlier today MPs and Peers held a parliamentary meeting on immigration detention, hearing from experts about the hazardous effects of detention, and why urgent and… Read more »
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“When you see injustice – speak out!”: These Walls Must Fall in Manchester
Last Thursday human rights campaigners, union members, migrant rights groups, political representatives and other members of the public met to campaign against immigration detention. Setting… Read more »
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Video: Julie Ward MEP supporting These Walls Must Fall in Manchester
“If we look back at our family history, somewhere along the line we would discover we had been people who needed to be somewhere else;… Read more »
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Video: Teo and Marineta’s story
Teo and Marineta were just another European couple working in England. But when they couldn’t find somewhere to live, instead of receiving homelessness help they… Read more »
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Reflections on Calais
To mark the first anniversary of the destruction of the ‘Jungle’ camp in Calais, Right to Remain’s Luke Butterly reflects on our recent return… Read more »
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“A place where one can be forgotten for a long time” – on the closure of The Verne
(Image credit: Unlocking Detention) Last week, the government quietly announced that they will be closing the Verne – one of the nine immigration ‘removal’… Read more »
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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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