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 the decision to withdraw the planned site at Linton-on-Ouse. And it was [...]
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 to see their latest actions including the planned protest in Parliament Square [...]
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 end in Bedford run by the King's Arms Project. This Alternatives to [...]
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 who came together as they were concerned at this development. In standing [...]
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 questioning the legality of the deal. In the letter, dated July 21, [...]
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 the location of the detention centre, also known as Derwentside, in the [...]
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 for detainees, misery, mental ill health, hunger strikes, self-harm and possible suicides. [...]
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 the appalling treatment that still meets members of our LGBTQI+ community who [...]