Our Migration Story: The Making of Britain
Our Migration Story: The Making of Britain is an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded collaboration between the Runnymede Trust and academics based at…
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Refugee Week 19th – 25th June
Refugee Week is the UK's largest festival celebrating the contribution of refugees and promoting understanding of why people seek sanctuary.…
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Help a destitute asylum seeker find a safe home
'Refugees at Home' are desperate to find new hosts for refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.
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Help access asylum seekers to online survey about their wellbeing
Leeds Beckett University is investigating the wellbeing of asylum-seekers and refugees, to gain a fuller understanding of their experiences and coping…
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Translating Lives: What it’s like helping refugees to learn English
By Clare Mulley - writer and supporter of the Cambridge Refugee Resettlement Campaign.
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Therapeutic support for volunteers from Solidarity and Support Network
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General update on asylum support and call for evidence
Home Office Review of Cash Allowance Paid to Asylum-Seekers for 2016
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NEW! Choir for Refugees and friends starting this week in London!
NEW! Choir for Refugees and friends starting this week in London!
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Refugees waiting up to two years for English classes
Refugee Action has published a report 'Locked Out of Learning' which has found that difficulty accessing English classes is a barrier to inclusion for refugees. They surveyed waiting lists in seven UK cities, and found that refugees are being forced to wait up to two years to access English language classes.
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Join us for the Great Get Together
The friends and family of Jo Cox, along with a growing movement of organisations, have planned to mark the anniversary…
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“Never give up. Whatever it is you want to do, keep going, one day you will do it.” An interview with Hogar Salim on learning English
by Helen Clare - volunteer and committee member, Birmingham City of Sanctuary.
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Home Office ends automatic settlement for refugees after five years
The Home Office has ended their policy of automatic settlement after five years for those granted refugee status. Their new policy will mean that those granted five years leave to remain will have their status reviewed at the end of those five years and it will be determined if it is…
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Briefing on patient information sharing with the Home Office from NAT and Doctors of the World
NAT (National AIDS Trust) and Doctors of the World have produced a briefing on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Department of Health and the Home Office on patient information-sharing. You can read the full briefing here here
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New report highlights discrimination after launch of ‘Right to Rent’ scheme
JCWI (Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants) released a new report today calling on the Government to stop the Right to Rent scheme and abandon plans for its imminent roll-out to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The report, based on evidence gathered over the last year, illustrates how the…
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Refugee children are at risk on the streets of Paris
The Refugee Rights Data Project has released statistics from their most recent field research, conducted in January 2017 on the streets…
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To Walk in Your Shoes – Red Bobble Theatre project
TO WALK IN YOUR SHOES – Theatre Project