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Theresa May has a bad habit of ruining Sundays. Sundays are a good day for her populist, racist pandering to the right-wing press to receive a lot of air-time. Tempting as it is to ignore her attention-seeking power-hungry attempts to fashion her own legacy, her latest intervention in the Article 8-foreign ex-offenders-deportation affair came at [...]

Anti-deportation campaigning can be tough. As Christmas approached, and UKBA began their seasonal assault on refused asylum seekers, the inhumanity of the immigration system loomed large. So we thought that this new year, we would take some time to think about why campaigning matters, and how it can and does mean justice is done and migrant voices [...]

2012 saw mass deportations of Tamils to Sri Lanka continue, despite credible evidence of torture of returnees. Lisa of NCADC South explains what’s happening, and what we need to do to stop it: The Sri Lankan civil war and asylum seekers in the UK In May 2009, Sri Lanka’s 27-year-long civil war officially ended. A [...]

News stories from the world of asylum, immigration, human rights and NCADC. Look out for our campaign review of the year in January! —- JANUARY The year commenced with an important legal victory for human rights, as explained by Rosalind English on theUK Human Rights Blog: People who make unsuccessful claims to enter or remain [...]

While Christmas is for most people a joyful holiday, for migrants without leave to remain – and those supporting them – it is a time of fear and uncertainty. Charities and other organisations are sadly well-versed in bracing themselves for a sharp rise in demand for crisis services at this time of year, as asylum [...]

A guest blog post by Melanie Griffiths. Melanie Griffiths is a DPhil candidate at Oxford University, with affiliation to the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society. Her research is on the asylum system in the UK, with a particular focus on refused asylum seekers and immigration detainees. [...]

A guest post from NCADC supporter Rosa: On Tuesday 30 October, Prince Ofosu died in suspicious circumstances inside Harmondsworth IRC. Throughout this week serious allegations of abuse and maltreatment by detention centre staff have surfaced, leading many to question, what caused his death? The Home Office and private security firm GEO, who are contracted to [...]

In the early hours on 18 October, Fariman Saleh and her family were taken from their home in Cardiff by UKBA. The dawn raid was filmed by a supporter of the family - it is very distressing to watch. Background WSSAG Wales, one of the many groups supporting the family, provided this information on the [...]

A guest post from NCADC supporter Rosa: Demonstrators mark the two year anniversary of Jimmy Mubenga’s death at the hands of G4S. As further contracts are awarded by the Home Office to private companies the abuse of immigration detainees by the staff of these private contractors continues. Last week marked the two year anniversary [...]

Sometimes the news isn’t news to any of us. The ‘farcical handling’ of an Afghan asylum seeker’s case? How many times have we heard that before? The difference this time is that the Afghan asylum seeker was an interpreter who had worked for British forces - and had been injured in a Taliban bomb blast [...]