Join the Detention Forum team – we need help!
Social media volunteer(s) needed! 10 February 2015 We are looking for one or two volunteers who can help us make sure our Twitter account is always active. You need to have; Some experience of working or volunteering in a NGO or in a team General understanding of immigration detention in [...]
#Time4aTimeLimit Strategy Day – 20 February 2015
THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED. WE HAVE NO MORE TICKETS AVAILABLE. #Time4aTimeLimit Strategy Day, 20th February 2015, 11am to 4:30pm Amnesty International, 25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA PROGRAMME - HERE The Detention Forum members have been campaigning for a time limit on immigration detention together since 2012. Strategy [...]
What is immigration enforcement doing to us? 20 Feb 2015, 6pm to 8:30pm, London
Please note all tickets have now been booked. If you want to be on the waiting list, please register via Eventbrite link below (10 Feb 2015). The Detention Forum invites you to an evening of thought-provoking 'salon' event. What is immigration enforcement doing to us? Media, ‘Go Home’ vans and [...]
Ask the planning committee to stop the detention expansion – updated 26 Jan 2015
Update - Please note that the planning meeting has been deferred to 19 February 2015. This means that we still have time to submit objections to the planning committee to oppose the plan to expand Campsfield detention centre. While the newspapers are taking an interest in indefinite detention in 'UK [...]
The deserving detainee?
This International Migrants' Day post was written for Unlocking Detention by Melanie Griffiths. Melanie is an ESRC Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Bristol. Her project, entitled Detention, Deportability and the Family: Migrant Men's Negotiations of the Right to Respect for Family Life, is on the family lives and [...]
Detention knows no borders
This piece by Eiri Ohtani was first published on openDemocracy on 15 December 2014, as part of the Unlocking Detention series. The first ever parliamentary inquiry into immigration detention in the UK listened to the voices of 'experts-by-experience' and those still trapped in detention. How will the report in February [...]
SAVE THE DATE! #Time4aTimeLimit – National Strategy Day 20 Feb 2015
12 December 2014 The Detention Forum would like to invite like-minded groups and organisations who want to campaign together for a time limit on immigration detention to our national strategy day on 20 February 2015. The Strategy Day will take place in London. We are still working out the exact [...]
Immigration Detention and the Scottish Referendum
This post was written by Detention Forum Scotland, in response to the Detention Forum's question of 'what are your hopes for the detention inquiry in light of the 'NO' vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum?' This post originally appeared on the Detention Forum website on 29 September 2014. Many organisations [...]