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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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 »
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 »
Read more Unlocking Detention 2015 is here!
Unlocking Detention 2015 starts on Monday, 21 September. This is the second year of Unlocking Detention, which Right to Remain is co-running with Detention Action… Read more »
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Not one dissenting voice … apart from James Brokenshire
Yesterday, parliament debated immigration detention. Specifically, the motion: ‘That this House supports the recommendations of the report of the Joint Inquiry by the All Party… Read more »
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Our 2015 national conference: a day of determination
“It always seems to be your annual conference”, one of my friends commented recently as conference-organising anxiety started to spill over in the days leading… Read more »
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Immigration detention: how does it affect YOUR community?
Right to Remain is gearing up to run the second Unlocking Detention project, with Detention Action and the Detention Forum. Image drawn by a detention… Read more »
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#UnlockTheDebate – parliamentary debate and alternative debate on detention
Parliamentary debate There is going to be a parliamentary debate on the detention inquiry report on 10 September 2015. The debate will be the first… Read more »
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#ShutDownYarlsWood – 8 August 2015
A personal account from Michael Collins, ons of the Coordinators at Right to Remain. On Saturday I joined several hundred people at the Shut Down… Read more »
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