UK Migration Newswire Archive
NCADC News Service Wednesday 22nd July 2009
22-07-2009 07:38
UNHCR Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Afghanistan July 2009Who Will Read This Report? It has an anodyne sounding name but reveals more about Afghanistan than all the spin put out by military strategists and refugee haters.
http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4a6477ef2.html ?
Pictures of the No Borders protest at the French Embassy
22-07-2009 00:48
France’s CGT union: doing the immigration police’s dirty work
21-07-2009 23:52
Winter 1980-81 in France saw the French Communist Party (PCF) use its municipal power to attack immigrants in Paris, with the Vitry-sur-Seine council organising bulldozers to stop the construction of a hostel for 300 workers from Mali (therefore leaving them homeless) and leading member Robert Hue, mayor of Montigny-lès-Cormeilles, leading a march against immigrants he had labelled “drug traffickers”. Now again in 2009 the chauvinism of France’s institutional left has reared its ugly head.London Protest Against Calais Clearances
20-07-2009 19:08
Protest Against Destruction of Calais 'Jungles' 20th June, pics and report
20-07-2009 18:45
Following a call from No Borders groups in London and Brighton a group of people have demonstrated this morning outside London's French Embassy to protest the repression and planned mass deportations of migrants living around Calais, France.
See full article in IMC-London for pics and background information.
No Borders public meeting
20-07-2009 14:02
There will be a No Borders public meeting at the Square Centre, tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6.30. An activist who was at the recent No Border camp in Calais will be speaking about the camp and relaying updates from Nottingham activists who are on the ground at the moment.Out of sight, out of mind ~ Experiences of immigration detention in the UK
20-07-2009 10:51
A new report ‘Out of sight, out of mind’ released today by detainee rights charity Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) reveals the unacceptable human cost of indefinite immigration detention in the UK and calls on the government to halt its plans to increase detention capacity.Around the Campaigns Monday 20th July 2009
20-07-2009 05:57
From behind the 20ft walls of Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre, there is not much view of the outside world. For the Iloba family who, after five years in the UK, were bundled into the back of a van to be deported, there is also little to view for the future. Betty Iloba and her children, Toby (18), Saskia (17), and Emmanuel (14), spoke of how they were sent to the UK by their policeman father, who feared for their lives, just months before he himself was killed.
http://tinyurl.com/Ilobafamily Brighton Class Struggle Forum – The Visteon Dispute - Wednesday 22 July
18-07-2009 21:46
The Visteon dispute – a post mortemWednesday 22 July 7pm
The Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton.
First meeting of Brighton Class Struggle Forum, themed around a post-mortem of the Viseton dispute.
Urgent call for solidarity with migrants in CALAIS
18-07-2009 13:12
URGENT CALL OUT for activists, legal observers, journalists and video activists to support migrants in Calais against potential imminent police attack and deportation!UK Green MEPs Urge Halt To ‘Inhumane’ Mass Deportation Plan
17-07-2009 14:10
British and French governments’ plot to deport asylum seekers back to Afghanistan and Iraq breaks EU human rights law, say MEPs in letter to European CommissionEU Council directives of use to lobby MEPs to intervene in Calais situation
17-07-2009 11:42
You can use the following information as the basis of letters, phone calls or emails to your MEP giving them information on which they can act. The weblinks at the end relate to wider legal issues.Urgent-Stop Destruction of Calais Migrant camps and mass deportations.
16-07-2009 19:35
Urgent - Stop destruction of Calais migrant camps and mass deportations to Afghanistan 21-24th July 2009Please forward and reply to
calais.witnesses@googlemail.com, adding your name below. Re: Migrant camps threatened with clearance at Calais 21st July, Mass deportations to Afghanistan planned for 24th July, widespread human rights abuses imminent
Change of Date & Venue: Protest Against Destruction of Calais Jungles
16-07-2009 19:19
Please note that the date and venue of the protest originally called for Tuesday 21st July at the French Tourist Office in High Holborn has been changed.Updated action ideas to support Calais migrants
16-07-2009 18:58
Information from activists on the ground in Calais points to the police preparing to destroy some or many of the ‘jungles’ housing around 1,800 migrants in Calais, this Monday 20th July or Tuesday 21st July. These ‘jungles’ are where people who have travelled across Europe wait in makeshift shelters, with little food or medical assistance, for their nightly attempts to get onto lorries making the crossing to the UK. Many of the migrants will be unaware of this threat.Protest Against Destruction of Calais Jungles
16-07-2009 11:36
France's Interior Minister Eric Besson made it clear in January that he wanted to see all migrants removed from Calais and the surrounding area by the end of this summer. And the project has already started with the bulldozing of camps at Loon-Plage and Teteghem and the destruction of squats in Calais. Now comes the main act in this summer festival of destruction.Call out for cameras, video activist and legal observers in Calais
16-07-2009 11:11
RE: Destruction of the Calais migrant camps, 'jungle' and deportation by charter to Afghanistan, next week Monday 20th- Thursday 24th JulyCalais Migrant Solidarity
15-07-2009 18:52
Please act now. We are calling for phone and email blockades of the French Embassy in London; Phil Woolas, UK Immigration Minister; the French Interior Ministry. All contacts at the end of this message.We are calling for these targets as the UK Border starts in Calais – both the French and British states are implicitly involved in any attacks (legal or otherwise) that are launched against migrants in Calais. As the burning and destruction of the migrant camp at Patras in Greece shows, EU states now have little to fear in their attacks against migrants, as popular support for the far-right in the European elections shows. We need to show them otherwise. Of course, any other direct action is welcomed.
No Borders! No Nations!
destruction of calais migrant camps planned for next week
14-07-2009 22:57
rumours of destruction of 'the jungle', migrant's camps in calais are looking likely for early next weekBeyond Borders weekend
14-07-2009 16:12
Beyond Borders is a weekend of skillsharing and discussion about fighting border controls and showing solidarity with migrants that will take place in Nottingham in August.