Skip to content or view screen version

UK Migration Newswire Archive

Full article

Defend Asylum Seekers - Protest at Communications House, London

09-01-2008 11:11

Outside Communications House
Pictures and text from the January protest, Tues 8 Jan, one of the regular monthly protests outside this UK Immigration Service building. Images Copyright.

Full article

'Ethnic Charter flights' = 'Hamburg International Airlines'

08-01-2008 18:35

A deportee has positively identified 'Hamburg International Airlines' as the charter flight he was put on taking him and 30 others to Afghanistan.

Full article

Alex Belongs to Bristol

08-01-2008 11:12

Alexandre Sidenko
Alexandre Sidenko from Russia is currently detained in Tinsley House IRC, with removal directions set for Wednesday 16th January on British Airways Flight BAo874 from Heathrow Airport @ 12:25 to Moscow. He was 'snatched' from his Bristol home and community where he has lived for seven years, on Wednesday 2nd January 2008.

Full article | 1 comment

Support The Harmondsworth 4! Demonstrate Monday 14th January 2008

07-01-2008 14:30

9:30am onwards

Southwark Crown Court
1 English Grounds
(off Battlebridge Lane)
Southwark
London SE1 2HU
(nearest tube London Bridge)

Full article

Friends of Therese & Ngalieuk

07-01-2008 08:46

Notewo Therese Laure and her son Ngalieuk Touko Thed Landery are currently detained in Yarl's Wood IRC, facing deportation to Cameroon on Tuesday 8th January at 19:00 on Kenya Airways flight KQ101 from London Heathrow terminal 4 to Nairobi, and onward to Douala Cameroon

Full article

Small Kitchen @ Sumac on Friday 11th & 25th + Putting Down Roots

06-01-2008 12:16

Artwork from 'Putting Down Roots' - now at the Sumac Centre.
Small World Kitchen - Traditional African Vegan Food will be served at 7.30pm. on Friday 11 & 25 Jan at the Sumac Centre, Forest Fields. Also at the Sumac Centre, starting this week, you can experience 'Putting Down Roots', a repeat exhibition of artwork created by Nottingham's refugees and asylum seekers.

Full article

Harmondsworth 4 Trial Adjourned

05-01-2008 06:27

- No demonstration at Southwark Crown Court on Monday 7th January

Full article

Iraqis face lack of services

05-01-2008 01:05

Farid, like millions of other Iraqis who fled the bombs and ambushes in 2006 and 2007, is choosing between the rising costs of displacement and the painful memories of home.

Full article

The Asylum Crisis

04-01-2008 22:35

The Flipside of the Globalisation Coin

Full article

Around the Campaigns Friday 4th January 2008

04-01-2008 20:24

There was no let up by the Home Office over the 'Festive Season and New Year' to dispense misery to those 'Sans Papiers' in the UK; families were cruelly torn apart and families/individuals uprooted from their communities.

Full article

Harmondsworth 4 Trial Adjourned

04-01-2008 17:49

- No demonstration at Southwark Crown Court on Monday 7th January

Full article | 1 comment

US military recruiting "illegal aliens"

04-01-2008 11:36

Civil activist Ildefonso Ortiz Cabrera told reporters that US military officers use young men of Latin American origin to recruit for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Full article

Defend asylum seekers - demonstrate next Tuesday 8 January 1-2pm

03-01-2008 10:36

No detentions, no deportations, for the right to work.
Fight back against the racist Labour government's immigration and asylum laws.

Solidarity with the Harmondsworth 4!

Called by London FRFI. All individuals and organisations invited to participate.

Full article

France: Revolt in foreigners camps

03-01-2008 08:58

In France, in 2 "centres de rétention" (one of the types of detention centers for migrants, where they are held before deportation) in Paris region, a strong protest movement has been going since Dec 20, 2007. Migrants went on hunger strike to try to alert public opinion on detention, which they characterize as "shameful and arbitrary".

Full article

Third attempt to remove Comfort Adefowoju and Family

02-01-2008 07:59

Comfort Adefowoju and children
Comfort Adefowoju and children still detained at Yarl's Wood IRC, have been issued with a new removal directions, on British Airways flight BA0075 from Heathrow airport terminal 4 to Lagos/Nigeria at 12.50 hours Thursday 3rd January 2008.

Full article

Paul Gassa Belongs to Leicester

31-12-2007 18:32

Paul from Cameroon currently detained in Oakington IRC, is facing forced removal to France, on British Airways Flight BA302 leaving Heathrow at 06.20am on Thursday 3rd January 2008 to Charles De Gaulle airport France, for onward transit to Douala/Cameroon.

Full article

Obscurity and confinement for migrants in Europe

31-12-2007 13:17

There are now 224 detention camps scattered across the European Union; altogether they can house more than 30,000 people - asylum-seekers and 'illegal' immigrants awaiting deportation - who are often held in administrative detention for as long as 18 months. In a number of EU countries, there is no limit on detention length.





Full article

Two Years Too Many - London Demo - Kader Must Stay

30-12-2007 21:07

Kader
Friday, 18 January 2008: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION in support of Abdelkader Belaouni

In London, demonstrate at the Canadian High Commission, west side of Trafalgar Square, at 1pm.

On 1 January 2006 Algerian Abelkader Belaouni (Kader) took refuge in St. Gabriel's Church in Montreal to avoid deportation from Canada. Despite an outpouring of support, he has remained a prisoner in the church ever since, unable to leave for fear of being arrested and deported. That's two years too many!

Full article | 1 addition | 4 comments

Northern Anti-Racist March calls for support on 19th January

30-12-2007 14:53

Download and share!
Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) would like to invite all local and national anti-racist groups and organisations to support our march against racism on 19th January (information below).
Stop Criminalising Immigrants! Freedom to Work! Freedom to Stay!

Full article | 1 addition | 2 comments

Refugees in Calais ignored by France government

30-12-2007 12:32

Video
Hundreds of refugees have gathered in Calais. Many risk there lives to go to Britain.