Despite being signed up to a reform agenda that involves reducing immigration detention, this summer the government has quietly expanded bed spaces at Brook House… Read more »
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Unlocking Detention 2016: be part of shining a spotlight in the shadows
Every year for the past three years, Right to Remain has helped to run an innovative and participatory social media project that raises awareness of… Read more »
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What does detention mean to you?
By Lisa Matthews, Coordinator at Right to Remain Unlocking Detention 2016 starts on Monday, and runs until 18 December. There are so many ways to… Read more »
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“How can this be legal?” Incredulity and anger when Unlocking Detention
By Lisa Matthews, Coordinator at Right to Remain Over the last few months, I’ve run several workshops across the UK, engaging communities on the issue… Read more »
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Preparing in case of detention
Detention generally happens very suddenly. That’s why it’s so important to be prepared. Our Toolkit contains important information about preparing in case of detention, and… Read more »
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Stand-off with prison profiteers at the Tower of London
By Marienna Pope-Weidemann, communications coordinator, Right to Remain The Tower of London has been a tourist attraction for as long as anyone can remember.… Read more »
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“It was like I’ve been blind for years, and now I can see”
By Lisa Matthews, Coordinator at Right to Remain. The last few weeks has been a flurry of workshops. Some of these have been on understanding the… Read more »
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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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“Unjustifiable, unnecessary, punitive and unlawful”: we speak to the BBC about immigration curfews
Back in May, we shared the news that the Home Office had been routinely imposing curfews (after someone obtained release from immigration detention) without any power to do so, making the action unlawful.
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Ripples of support to form a tidal wave of solidarity
A guest post from our friends MaMA in Liverpool, ahead of their Transmutable Voices event on 12 November. There are not a lot of creative… Read more »
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Reimagining violence: Hannah Arendt and the bureaucratisation of life in immigration detention
This guest post by Amanda Schmid-Scott, PhD Researcher at the University of Exeter, asks: what might a re-imagining of violence reveal about the lived experience… Read more »
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Right to Remain group launches in Sheffield
By Marienna Pope-Weidemann, communications coordinator, Right to Remain It started with just a handful of locals, as these things often do. Like many international volunteers,… Read more »
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- 17 July: From Detention to Defiance. Fatou’s First Words & National Solidarity Launch meeting
- New workshop offering! Right to Remain Toolkit workshops
- The National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention, 18 October 2025 – Call for action!
- Another Deportation Order: Fatou Tamba still detained, still at risk
- Solidarity with people who report in the West Midlands! Join online meeting on 25 June!
Legal updates
- The Borders, Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill – just very disappointing
- eVisa deadline extended to 1 June 2025
- Home Office increases immigration application fees, again
- New Home Office policy seeks to bar refugees from British citizenship
- What are the different types of return?
Events
- The National Day of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention, 18 October 2025 – Call for action!
- Solidarity with people who report in the West Midlands! Join online meeting on 25 June!
- 30 June: Knowledge is Power online workshop
- Radical Solidarity Hub, 22 May – 92% of us agree that the White Paper makes us and our community anxious, but we remain strong!
- Radical Solidarity Hub meeting 22 May – the White Paper
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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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