Yearly Archives: 2022

Joint letter to stop accommodation centres

We were very happy recently to add our collective name to the joint inter-agency letter, co-ordinated by Asylum Matters, calling on the Home Secretary and the Defence Secretary to to scrap all plans for asylum accommodation centres, following [...]

2022-08-23T07:40:47+00:00August 23rd, 2022|

Keep Campsfield Closed

As we blogged last month, we deplore the decision of the government to re-open the Campsfield immigration centre in Kidlington, north of Oxford. The Coalition to Keep Campsfield Closed has been launched, and do check out their website [...]

2022-08-25T07:20:31+00:00August 22nd, 2022|

There is an alternative

One of our members, Ben and Jerry's, recently added a new blog post on their site. It is an excellent post and well worth a read. It is focussed on a project which has just come to an [...]

2022-08-16T13:29:39+00:00August 16th, 2022|

Linton camp not going ahead

At our last members' meeting we heard from the Linton-on-Ouse Action Group on their campaign to stop the opening of a new accommodation centre for people seeking asylum at RAF Linton. This was a group of local people [...]

2022-08-12T10:27:11+00:00August 12th, 2022|

Cross-Party call to re-consider Rwanda scheme

A group of MPs and Peers has called on the Home Secretary to “re-consider” the plan to send migrants to Rwanda. The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) wrote to the Home Secretary warning of safety concerns and [...]

2022-08-01T15:13:09+00:00August 1st, 2022|

Hassockfield Legal Challenge

Along with many people, our members were closely following the legal challenge mounted by Women for Refugee Women (WfRW) that women detained in the Hassockfield Detention Centre should be able to access legal advice in person. Because of [...]

2022-07-29T09:26:49+00:00July 29th, 2022|

Campaigners deplore decision to re-open Campsfield

Oxford anti-detention campaigners have denounced the government announcement yesterday that it intends to redevelop and reopen Campsfield immigration detention centre in Kidlington north of Oxford. They argue that: It’s cruel and unjust– more detention means more years of uncertainty [...]

2022-07-13T09:15:55+00:00July 13th, 2022|

No Pride In Detention

This blog post comes from one of our members - Rainbow Migration It’s Pride Month and people are rightly celebrating how far LGBTQI+ rights have come in the UK. But we shouldn’t let that progress blind us to [...]

2022-06-22T14:28:43+00:00June 22nd, 2022|

Keep saying no to the Rwanda asylum scheme

We wrote back on 26th April that we should say no to the Rwanda asylum plan. The first flight was cancelled at the eleventh hour last night, but we should still keep saying no to this scheme. Back [...]

2022-06-15T07:33:31+00:00June 15th, 2022|
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