Join our rescheduled Knowledge is Power: Building collective safety against immigration enforcement workshop. workshop on Thursday 24 September, 10am – 1pm. This session was postponed Wednesday 8 July 2026, 10am – 1pm.

This session responds directly to the sharp rise in immigration raids, arrests, and detention across the UK, and the growing need for communities to have clear and practical information to protect themselves and each other.

Why this session, and why now?

More migrants and migrant workers are anxious about their futures and afraid for their safety because of increasingly hostile border policy and enforcement in the UK. The most visible forms of immigration enforcement, including raids, detention and deportation, are a major source of fear in migrant communities, yet they are rarely addressed openly.

But enforcement does not begin when a van arrives or when someone is detained. The hostile environment and the UKVI paperwork system create precarity, chaos, surveillance and control long before that point. By the time someone is taken into detention, much of the system’s work has already been done. The issue is not a lack of care or outrage, but that enforcement operates quietly and cumulatively, while organising often begins only at the point of crisis. This session helps fill that gap by building understanding of how enforcement works, strengthening knowledge of rights, and sharing practical tools for collective safety, resistance and support.

Immigration enforcement has risen sharply under Labour, with raids, arrests and detentions jumping by more than 50%, and thousands more people taken into detention despite most being released on bail rather than removed. Immigration detention affects far more than just the person taken. Every time someone is detained, families, neighbours, friends, and support groups rally to provide care, rebuild stability, and keep fighting for justice. This work should never fall on communities but it does, because the system is designed to  destabilise and exhaust us.

For many people, this has created a growing sense of fear and uncertainty. It has also shown how urgently communities need reliable, accessible information about enforcement, detention, and rights.

The #FreeFatou campaign, and the organising that followed, taught us vital lessons about what communities need when someone is taken and what preparation can prevent harm. Our new Knowledge is Power session builds on that learning.

This session is designed for both people in the immigration and asylum system and those supporting them. We actively encourage organisations that register to do so together with the people they work alongside who are impacted by immigration control. Too often, knowledge is kept with professionals, not because communities lack the right to it, but because traditional systems create a “helper/helped” dynamic. We want to move beyond that. By learning together, we create spaces of solidarity, shared power, and collective protection. 

Knowledge is a form of power, but it’s also a form of care. When we talk openly about detention and enforcement, we reduce fear, strengthen trust, and build the capacity to act collectively.

How do I sign up?

Sign up using the form below.

We have a maximum of 35 participants at this online workshop. We also have a maximum of 2 people per organisation, to spread the knowledge more widely. You will receive a Zoom link after you book your place.

Ticket prices are dependent on the income of your organisation – please see the fee structure below.

Please email Esther – esther@righttoremain.org.uk – to enquire on ticket cost, or request a free ticket. For people currently in the asylum or immigration system, tickets are also free.