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17 April 2018
Resisting the ‘hostile environment’: State violence and the Yarl’s Wood hunger strike
by FIDELIS CHEBE (CEO, Migrant Action) In February, 120 people – mainly women – detained at Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre in Bedfordshire embarked on a 3-day…
17 April 2018
128 Answers needed on EU citizens in post-Brexit UK
European citizens rights group, The 3 Million, lodged 128 questions to the Home Office regarding the status of European Union citizens in the United Kingdom after Brexit.…
10 April 2018
Campaign wins government U-turn on hostile environment in schools
According to the Guardian: Campaigners are claiming victory amid reports that the government is to back down on a controversial requirement that schools must collect data on…
10 April 2018
Route to your Rights- Project Findings
March 2018 The Migrants’ Rights Network (MRN) was funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation to implement the Route to your Rights (RTYR) project, a qualitative research and…
10 April 2018
Prolonged arrival: The route to settlement is winding & grinding
MRN’s Route to Your Rights project sought to document the challenges that migrants face in settling in the UK. The stories collected through interviews with both migrants…
9 April 2018
The dire realities of homeless migrant families in the UK
Violet Dickenson and John Grayson, who have worked with the South Yorkshire Migration & Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG), wrote two articles – here and here – for the…
9 April 2018
New rules preventing young asylum seekers from studying
Asylum seekers who are awaiting a Home Office decisions cannot work, must often reside as a fixed address, and report regularly to a Home Office outpost. In…
9 April 2018
Disabled British citizen with no documents held in detention for months
The case of Paul Tate, reported on my the Guardian, exemplifies the Kafka-esque proportions that immigration detention decisions can take. Paul Tate says he was born in…
7 April 2018
Empowering Local Community Organising For Migrant Led Change
January 2018 During 2017 the Migrants’ Rights Network coordinated the Outsider Project in four locations across England, in response to the steadily worsening perception of, and increased…
6 April 2018
Brexit Q&A
Video 3 – Brexit Q&A [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX6dXRL-jPU]