Review of Lucy Mayblin’s “Impoverishment and Asylum”
The focus of Mayblin’s book is the systematic impoverishment of people seeking asylum in the UK, and she approaches the topic through the lens of “slow violence”.
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Destitution in the asylum and immigration process has to end
No one should be destitute. In the modern world, and in a wealthy country, it is quite simply an ideological choice that people are homeless and/or without the very basics people need to live a decent life.
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“A person becomes a person through other persons”: Ubuntu Women’s Shelter
At the start of May, we ran a workshop on the asylum process in Glasgow, and we were really happy to meet a couple of women representing Ubuntu Women’s Shelter.
Ubuntu are the first specialist service in the UK run and managed by people with lived experience of migration, asylum or destitution.
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8:00pm to 8:00am, 365 nights a year: Glasgow night shelter
This week, we ran a workshop on the asylum process for volunteers at the Glasgow night shelter. The shelter provides emergency accommodation for destitute people seeking asylum, and other people with no recourse to public funds.
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“We are just numbers to them, they do not see us as people”
Last week, a group of civil society organisations released a report that raises acute concerns about the discrimination and violence against asylum seeking women in the UK.
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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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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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"We are all under attack": solidarity, the immigration bill and a Hostile Environment
At a meeting organised by Legal Action for Women in London on Saturday, representatives from groups all across the UK came together to share how… Read more »
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Guest post: the criminalization of asylum seekers
The NCADC blog is pleased to welcome three guest posts from Molly Haglund, who has just completed a Masters Degree in Human Rights Practice at… Read more »
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