NCADC’s new name publicly launched: we are now Right to Remain!

Published by on April 11, 2014 | Leave a response

NCADC has a new name … Right to Remain: campaigning for migration justice As you may know, at our last AGM our members voted to change our name to better reflect the work we do, (and for a name that is much easier to say!). We are very excited to finally publicly launch our new name to the world, and we have a new website to prove it: www.righttoremain.org.uk We have shiny new email addresses too, but don’t worry - we will still get your emails if you forget and use our old email addresses by mistake. We also have Read the full article…

Right to Remain training and launch event: Manchester

Published by on April 10, 2014 | Leave a response

Right to Remain is the new name for NCADC, the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns. In 2013, our members voted to change our name to better reflect the work we do, (and for a name that is much easier to say!). Come and find out more at our campaigning training and launch event in Manchester this May! Right to Remain campaigning training Friday 16 May 2014 12 - 4pm at the Lesbian and Gay Foundation, 5 Richmond St, Manchester, M1 3HF Interactive training on campaigning for the right to remain. What does campaigning mean? What can campaigning achieve? What are Read the full article…

Workshop on deportation with Diaspora Support Network

Published by on March 27, 2014 | 1 Response

The Diaspora Support Network supports the resettlement of foreign national detainees who are deported to their countries of origin and unlocks their potential to positively contribute, build and sustain their communities. As well as providing this support to individuals who are facing deportation from the UK (deportation following a criminal conviction, as opposed to administrative removal), they also run outreach sessions aimed at anyone who is having an immigration problem related to potential deportation of themselves or a family member who is a foreign national who may be in prison or in a removal centre. DSN aims to provide them Read the full article…

Top tips: public campaigning for the right to remain

Published by on March 7, 2014 | Leave a response

We support campaigning for the right to remain because it works: it can overcome the barriers to justice, and win the right to remain; and it can produce other benefits for the individual and the wider community too. Individuals’ campaigns for the right to remain are a crucial way of exposing the injustices of the asylum and immigration system, and improving people’s access to justice in their cases. Read more here about the benefits of campaigning for the right to remain. Immigration and asylum applicants face significant legal and procedural barriers to securing their right to remain. A campaign Read the full article…

Students (and academics) stand up to the encroaching border

Published by on March 6, 2014 | 1 Response

Xenophobic Immigration Bill The new Immigration Bill, described by one politician as “the most racist piece of legislation that this country has witnessed since the 1960s… aimed at setting up a regime of harassment for migrants”, will affect international students more than any other group as they already make up 75 per cent of those subject to visa controls. The measures affecting international students contained in the Bill extend beyond the boundaries of university campuses and will severely impact students’ right to public health care and access to accommodation. The Bill proposes introducing a fee - from £200 for undergraduate student to £3000 for Read the full article…

Anatomy of a successful anti-deportation campaign

Published by on February 25, 2014 | Leave a response
Anatomy of a successful anti-deportation campaign

In the Guardian newspaper this weekend, it was reported that: “A Ugandan gay rights activist has thwarted an attempt by the South African government to deport him amid fears he would be at risk of imprisonment or death if sent home. Officials dropped their case on Thursday against Paul Semugoma, a critic of Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill. But South African activists said it raised questions about their government’s treatment of foreign nationals and silence about homophobia on the continent.” Persecution of LGBTI people in Uganda As a gay rights activist, Semugoma would be in extreme danger if returned to Uganda. According Read the full article…

Immigration Bill update

Published by on February 11, 2014 | Leave a response

By Jacqueline Farmer, NCADC legal volunteer. See our previous posts on the Immigration Bill - it’s our pet hate (well, one of them). Second reading at the House of Lords Yesterday the second reading of the Immigration Bill took place at the House of Lords. This was an opportunity for the Lords to debate the purposes and principles of the Bill, or to highlight specific concerns and suggest what kinds of changes might be needed. In order to reach this stage in the legislative proceedings, a bill has get through the House of Commons. Following the first two readings of Read the full article…

Detention: women, children, and the mentally ill

Published by on February 6, 2014 | 1 Response

In this post: Women for Refugee Women’s new report on the detention of asylum-seeking women Court of Appeal judgment on detention of seriously mentally ill migrants Continued detention of children, Cedars and Barnardos Detention of refugee women Last week, Women for Refugee Women launched its new report, Detained: women asylum seekers locked up in the UK. The research is based on interviews with 46 women who had sought asylum and had been detained, mainly in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre. The report was covered in the Mirror newspaper, whose columnist wrote:. “Our duty to refugee women is to care – Read the full article…

Why campaign for the right to remain?

Published by on February 5, 2014 | 3 Responses
Why campaign for the right to remain?

“I don’t know how I would have kept going except that I had so much support from people outside. The second time I was detained Women for Refugee Women made sure that people like Michael Morpurgo and Joan Bakewell were writing to the newspapers. And the grassroots groups I work with in Manchester were my support. They made calls, they faxed the airline, so no matter what the immigration was doing to me, I still felt strong. Sometimes you think, should you give up, but then you think, no, you are not fighting the fight alone. Other people act like Read the full article…

Worrying elements in Iraq country guidance case

Published by on January 31, 2014 | Leave a response

A guest post from NCADC’s legal volunteer, Jacqueline Farmer. We recently posted on our legal resources blog a summary of a 2013 Court of Appeal case about forced removals to Iraq, looking at whether Iraqis removed from the UK could relocate internally to areas of Iraq under the control of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) as opposed to the Government in Baghdad (GOI). The summary looks at what this case might mean for Iraqi asylum seekers whose cases have been refused, and explained the judgment for non-lawyers. You can read it here. The judgment in this country guidance case, HM Read the full article…