General election 2017: a chance to push immigration detention to the top of the agenda
Mabel is waiting to find out if, today, she will finally find freedom. If she will get to see her daughter. If the punitive deprivation… Read more »
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School census will force children like me into the shadows
18th May is the final deadline to opt your child out of the national school census or to retract previously submitted data. See the links… Read more »
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Are refugees welcome in Britain?
A new report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees has highlighted serious concerns about the difficulties faced by refugees in settling in the… Read more »
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Unsettling refugees: over seventy organisations call on Home Office to allow refugees to rebuild their lives in the UK
On 9 March 2017, new Home Office guidance on refugee leave to remain was issued. Previously, people recognised as refugees in the UK were granted… Read more »
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Mapping Dystopia: The Hidden Shame of Fortress Europe
By Marienna Pope-Weidemann, communications coordinator, Right to Remain @MariennaPW The Brexit chronicles began in shambles and false promises and no doubt the ending will be… Read more »
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“I was never born to live in one place”: writing by young migrants
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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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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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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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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