“They want us to imprison and deport ourselves”
This post was written for Unlocking Detention by Stuart Crosthwaite, Secretary of the South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG), with thanks to the… Read more »
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“Like snakes and ladders. But just snakes”
This blog post was written by Lisa Matthews, Right to Remain coordinator. This week, we returned to one of our most frequent destinations – Manchester. … Read more »
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Injustice behind the numbers
The Office for National Statistics released its quarterly report on migration statistics today. Aside from the entirely predictable and predicted inability of the government to… Read more »
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The damage of indefinite detention
This blog post was written for Unlocking Detention by Colleen Molloy, City of Sanctuary National Development Officer. # When City of Sanctuary launched 10 years… Read more »
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How detention affects my community: the view from Belfast
This piece was written for Unlocking Detention by the Larne House Visitors Group. Larne House is a short-term holding facility near Belfast. People are detained… Read more »
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The impact of detention on LGBT communities
This article was written for Unlocking Detention by Nina Held and Karen Smith, volunteers at Lesbian Immigration Support Group in Manchester. This article was originally… Read more »
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Refugee Solidarity Summit – Open the Borders Now!
Written by Michael Collins, coordinator at Right to Remain. On Saturday, I attended the Refugee Solidarity Summit: Open the Borders Now! event in London, organised… Read more »
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Yorkshire Solidari-tea
“Sheffield is a special place”. Resounding nods accompanied my statement at our mutual aid and solidarity workshop in Sheffield on Tuesday. Well, they were hardly… Read more »
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How detention affects Devon: a looming dread
This post was written for Unlocking Detention by Abbie Grace, support worker at Refugee Support Devon, and someone who lives in Devon and has experienced… Read more »
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“We all still have problems talking about it”
This year, Unlocking Detention is exploring how detention affects communities across the UK – not just where detention centres are located. This blog post was… Read more »
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Whose ‘side’ are you on? A government threatened by solidarity
“What I’m proposing is a deal – the fewer people there are who wrongly claim asylum in Britain, the more generous we can be in… Read more »
Read more When an individual is detained everyone is affected
This blog post was written for the Unlocking Detention project (co-run by Right to Remain) by Gemma Pillay, from Nottingham. She works for the Nottingham… Read more »
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