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UK Migration Newswire Archive

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PHILIPPINES: Our Failed Labor-Export Policy

07-04-2011 12:45

The impacts of disasters occurring in other parts of the world, from Libya to Japan, have perhaps been communicated more drastically to the Philippines than to other countries. Whether it is the tragic trilogy of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear fallout in Japan or the civil war in Libya, external crises are swiftly transformed into internal crises for our country, as thousands of families are pushed into poverty and economic hardship when their breadwinners are dislocated and repatriated back to the Philippines, where jobs offering decent wages are scarce.

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HIV positive victim of sex trafficking and rape faces imminent deportation from

01-04-2011 16:03

Felicia Adjei, a vulnerable woman who was trafficked into the UK and brutally exploited in forced prostitution is facing removal to Ghana TONIGHT, 1 April 2011 on Virgin Airlines Flight VS657 at 10.20pm from Heathrow Airport. She is currently waiting in an immigration detention centre.

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Sheffield BNP Meeting

31-03-2011 12:25

Sheffield BNP will be holding a meeting tonight at The Malthouse Public Ecclesfield.

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Report from Lampedusa, Europe's mediterranean prison island for migrants

30-03-2011 20:04

lampedusa demo 2009
First hand accounts from Lampedusa, Europe's island of shame, as more and more refugees arrive from Tunisia and elsewhere in North Africa to be held in an open air prison -- if they make it at all.

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UKBA Charter flights / Frontex Charter flights

25-03-2011 19:34

European/UK deportation machine

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Dissident Island Radio - Sex Worker Special ready for download

20-03-2011 16:40

For episode 78, the Dissident Island Crew put together something extra hot.. A Sex Worker Special! The show features:

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Barnardos to run child prisons

15-03-2011 15:56

Barnardos in Pease pottage

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Greece in Revolt

15-03-2011 06:44

This is a short film about austerity and resistance in Greece.

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Anti-Shell Non-violent direct action workshop

09-03-2011 10:58

A non-violent direct action workshop is taking place on Sat 9th -Sun 10th April. All are welcome, open to complete beginners-no experience necessary!

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Revolts and riots in migrant detention centres (Italy)

06-03-2011 23:01

1 March: after a revolt that has gone on for days, the detention centre in Gradisca is in a state of collapse: one single cell left for the 100 detainees, people eating and sleeping in the corridors and in the canteen, one bathroom for everyone. You can see some pictures here. The detainees’ revolt almost completely destroyed the building, but the detainees couldn’t be transferred, as the other detention centres were packed full. Revolts and riots are not new to this detention centre; things have been worsening over the last couple of years. In September 2009, a similar revolt was brutally repressed by the police.

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Protest at Yarl's Wood in solidarity with women immigration detainees

06-03-2011 18:35

protesters arrive to find the main gate blocked by cops and YW managers
Anti-detention activists held a solidarity demonstration at Yarl's Wood detention centre on Saturday, 5th March. Protesters wanted to show solidarity with migrant women incarcerated in the immigration prison near Bedford, as women worldwide celebrated International Women's Day. They also wanted to highlight the fact that ending child detention has been skillfully employed by the coalition government to avoid talking about the brutal and inhumane detention regime in general.

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'Without Borders' Issue 3 - February 2011

06-03-2011 11:54

'Without Borders' is a French zine written by Calaisian Activists and published in French and English at regular intervals.

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Detention of children - a makeover.

04-03-2011 11:06

The detention of children for immigration purposes was labelled "state sponsored cruelty" by the Lib Dems and Yarl's Wood is being forced to close in May. Instead, they aim to open "pre-departure accommodation" at Peas Pottage near Crawley. This is just an image makeover and one we can prevent.

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Being treated as a criminal as first sight !!

03-03-2011 21:54

I was held at the UK Border in Heathrow airport. I was interviewed as to my intention to visit Liverpool. I was to be present at the birth of my second child with my partner and mother of our 1st daughter. They did not believe me. I was denied entry. The Officer that interviewed me thought that Liverpool was a shithole of a city and didn't like it. Perhaps that was the reason I was denied entry. I do have an appeal pending of an unmarried partner application as well.

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Palestine Bike Ride to visit Calais Migrant Solidarity on 23rd March.

02-03-2011 18:57

P.E.D.A.L. planning to cycle from London to Palestine over Spring 2011 to draw attention to battles against economic, environmental and political injustice faced by communities across the world.

The first stop on the journey after leaving will be to spend time in Calais for 3 days of workshops, skill-shares, film-shows, music, information and dancing.

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international action against bam

02-03-2011 18:06

Today 2nd march at 14 pm, a fake press release from Royal Bam Group was sent to a large press list including hundreds of financial and economic contacts in Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Ireland and Germany, the European country where such group is operating. The press release was announcing disastrous annual economic results, and it attached a detailed fake financial document showing all the reasons of the losses.

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The revolt in the Centres d'identification in Italy

02-03-2011 14:12

"It 'a living hell from which escape"

Voltage at maximum levels. Four hundred new visitors to Lampedusa. In Bologna, a hundred activists of the social centers have entered the Cie over the wall. An assault: "To free the immigrants." Flames and riots in Turin and Gradisca Cie d'Isonzo
Cie-center for identification and expulsion

Protests of the activists of the social centers in the Center for identification and expulsion of via Mattei

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Where is our solidarity

02-03-2011 13:58

where is our solidarity to the 300 immigrant hunger strikers in Greece?

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Solidarity demo with migrant women imprisoned at Yarl's Wood - 5th March

25-02-2011 16:18

Yarl's Wood immigration prison
Come and celebrate International Women's Day by showing solidarity with the migrant women imprisoned at Yarl's Wood!

Saturday, 5th March 2011, 1:00pm
@ Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre
Twinwoods Road, Clapham, Bedfordshire, MK41 6HL

Please organise your own transport.
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