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Two announcements from the Home Office, days before Caroline Nokes’ departure Statement: Immigration Detention Reform On 23 July 2019, the outgoing Immigration Minister, Caroline Nokes, issued a statement entitled “Immigration Detention Reform”, announcing that there has been a 40% reduction [...]
One of the things we value most is an ongoing discussion with some of the Detention Forum members and volunteers about the complex nature and process of creating a social change. Particularly we often talk about the vital importance [...]
Together with many colleagues working for migration justice, the Detention Forum has sent this joint letter to the new Home Secretary. We urgently need a fair and humane immigration system, and the Home Secretary has a lot of [...]
29 July 2019 Many of our social media volunteers will be taking a break from their regular tweeting duty over summer, to prepare for this year’s Unlocking Detention, which starts in November. Unlocking Detention shines a spotlight on [...]
Active discussion on alternatives to detention is taking place outside the UK, particularly on how and whether small-scale alternatives to detention pilots could help the governments and civil society organisations understand how they could work. This article is reprinted [...]
How will migrants and civil society organisations shape the alternatives pilots? - ATD Blog 2 19 July 2019 In July 2018, the Home Secretary announced a new community-based alternative to detention pilot for vulnerable women detained in Yarl’s [...]
‘What does a migration system without detention look like?’ - ATD blog 1 19 July 2019 In July 2018, the Home Secretary announced a new community-based alternative to detention pilot for vulnerable women detained in Yarl’s Wood or [...]
3 July 2019 Has child immigration detention ended in the UK? This is a question we get asked sporadically. Ending child detention was such a huge campaign around 2009 and 2010. Now few people seem to pay much [...]
On 18 June 2019, the government unveiled its Heathrow Airport expansion plan. It intends to build a third runway to the airport amidst concerns around its environmental impact. Buried underneath this announcement is this: a plan to build [...]
Photo by Zhifei Zhou on Unsplash Living under Theresa May’s reign as migrants was like a nightmare, and its catastrophic impact has not ended. After May’s dramatic resignation speech on 24 May, 'Hostile Environment' policies continue. And the [...]