Toolkit

NCADC training: Liverpool

Next up on our training tour of the UK is Liverpool! Throughout 2012 and 2013, NCADC has been visiting local groups already involved in campaigning, or wanting to find out more. We have been running workshops on understanding the asylum/immigration status and campaigning for the right to remain, in Huddersfield, Manchester, Leeds, Oxford, Glasgow, Belfast and coming up before the end of the year we’ll be travelling to Newcastle, Liverpool and Nottingham. In the new year, we’ll be making our way to Leicester. If you’ve missed us, don’t worry, we’ll be coming back! If you’re interested in NCADC coming to deliver Read the full article…


Why campaign?

Why campaign?

NCADC is a national human rights organisation, founded in 1995, which supports community-led campaigns for justice in the asylum and immigration system, with a focus on supporting people’s campaigns for their right to remain. NCADC provides free and confidential advice, resources and training on campaigning to stay in the UK, to individuals and groups. We advise on the benefits and risks, campaign strategies, non-public campaigning options, and we help promote public campaigns. We do not provide legal advice, or run campaigns for people. Instead, we provide individuals and groups with information about campaigning, tools to get a campaign started, advice Read the full article…


NCADC in Belfast

NCADC in Belfast

We’d like to thank RAG for inviting us over to Belfast last week (Friday 14 June), where we ran a workshop on campaigning for justice in the asylum and immigration system. It was fantastically well-attended, and there were great contributions from everybody. It more than made up for Belfast on lock-down because of G8! From Refugee Action Group’s Facebook page: A very successful and well attended workshop yesterday at Shaftsbury Community and Recreation Centre as an event to get people in the mood for Refugee Week starting on Monday 17th June. Usually people take a deep breath when they see the Read the full article…


Upcoming events

Upcoming events

Free NCADC workshop! Saturday 11 May, 10am to 3pm The Hub, Turl Street, Oxford This training session with the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns (NCADC) is on campaigning for migration justice and stopping deportations. The training is based on the NCADC Campaigning Toolkit, published in September 2012. The Oxford workshop will be an introduction to the toolkit, and to campaigning for migration justice in individual cases. Through interactive exercises, discussion, knowledge-sharing and case-studies we hope that participants will come away knowing more about: the asylum and immigration system, the problems individuals face what can be done to support individuals applying Read the full article…


News of the Year 2012

News of the Year 2012

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 in the United Kingdom cannot be removed without being given sufficient time for a lawyer to prepare a proper challenge to their claim. The government has failed in its appeal against the Administrative Court’s finding that government policy unlawfully provided for expedited removal procedures in Read the full article…


Airline campaigning: a step-by-step guide

Airline campaigning: a step-by-step guide

As the launch of NCADC’s campaign toolkit draws nearer, we present one more sneak preview … on airline campaigning. As the toolkit explains, the most effective campaigning begins much earlier than when removal directions are issued. If you start planning a campaign early, you can be more strategic and bring in more and wider support. If your campaign has reached the point of removal directions being issued, there are still things that can be done. Below is a guide to last minute airline campaigning, for stopping an individual removal on a commercial flight It is very difficult to take effective Read the full article…


Further representations and fresh claims: call for evidence, and new toolkit section

Further representations and fresh claims: call for evidence, and new toolkit section

NCADC is concerned about the very high rejection rates when individuals submit further representations after a refusal of their asylum or human rights applications. The rejection letters from UKBA will say that the further representations do not meet the legal test of paragraph 353 of the immigration rules and therefore do not constitute a fresh claim. We, along with other organisations, are compiling case studies of these refusals. We are seeking anecdotal evidence (or statistical evidence if you have it) of good quality further representations being rejected by UKBA, particularly if the decision is made within a matter of days of Read the full article…


A sneak preview of NCADC’s campaign toolkit: immigration detention

A sneak preview of NCADC's campaign toolkit: immigration detention

NCADC is currently working on a campaigns toolkit, based on the experiences of our workers, members, supporters and groups we’ve campaigned alongside. It is designed to provide advice, resources, and campaign suggestions for migrants, and people supporting or working with migrants. The finalised version will be available online and in hard copy later in the year, but before that selected sections will be posted here on the NCADC blog. We welcome suggestions and comments, particularly from people who have been directly involved in campaigns. The first section to be previewed is on Immigration Detention: What is immigration detention? People Read the full article…