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UK Migration Newswire Archive

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Continuing conflicts that create refugees, November 2006

02-11-2006 07:32

Thirteen actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated in October 2006, according to the November issue of CrisisWatch.

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Communications House demo - Tuesday 7 November

31-10-2006 10:13

FIGHT RACIST LAWS! DEFEND ASYLUM SEEKERS/ MIGRANTS.

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Why campaign against deportation?

31-10-2006 06:01

An Anti-Deportation Campaign involves organizing resistance to restrictive immigration legislation, and simply means making the government change their minds regarding an individual case.

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Demonstrate for Freedom of Movement

30-10-2006 15:12

monthly picket of Communications House migrant reporting centre Saturday 4th November 1-3pm organised by No Borders London

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show solidarity with refugees in Calais the 4th anniversary of Sangattes closur

29-10-2006 16:31

Demonstrate in Calais , on Tuesday the 14th of November 13.30 Quai de la moselle
if you can please come and show some solidarity for refugees in Calais who continue to live rough in the streets , woods and on the beaches in Calais ; they face the prospect of another winter and continuing harrassment and brutality of the French (and now 200 British) police

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Congo Film Evening!! Friday 3 November

27-10-2006 15:54

LEAFLET
On Friday 3 November at 7.30pm at the Basement Cafe, 24 Lever Street, Manchester, the North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group (NWASDG) present the film 'Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death', the story of how Belgian colonialism killed 10 million Congolese and plundered the country.

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Liam Byrne's Trip to Glasgow

26-10-2006 19:18

Home Office Minister Liam Byrne came to Glasgow today and received a warm welcome. Kind of.

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International Action Day "Free Erdogan"

26-10-2006 11:11

action in basel, switzerland, in support of erdogan e.
Switzerland wants to send political refugees back to turkey, where they will face torture and death. We want to stop this and ask for international help.

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Demonstrate Calais - Saturday 4th November

26-10-2006 11:10


4 years after Sangatte, the situation worsened. From now on, of the hundreds of migrants live under conditions worthy of the worst shantytowns. However, these men, these women, these children fled all of the countries where the Humans right are ridiculed. Some risk the prison or death if they are expelled.

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Nasty Islamophobe Novel Published Soon

25-10-2006 14:09

'Private Eye' No.1170 out today has an advert under 'Eye Read' on page 45 for an Islamophobic novel about to be published. See: www.invasioneurope.com

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Protest at John Reid and the G6

25-10-2006 10:18

G6 Ministers visit Stratford upon avon and Warwick for banquet - opportunity to protest at xenophobic and fascist home office policies.

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No More Dawn Raids - No More Deportations/Rally and Lobby of Scottish Parliament

24-10-2006 12:05

10.00am to 12.00pm
Thursday 26 October 2006
Canongate
Edinburgh
EH99 1SP

Scottish, churches, charities, schoolteachers, trade unions, neighbours have condemned the dawn raids by immigration officials on innocent asylum seeking families in Glasgow.

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Public meeting: 'Still in chains? The experience of African asylum seekers and f

23-10-2006 19:54

Next year, 2007, will see the commemoration of the bicentenary of the
parliamentary abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in the British
empire. But has African enslavement really ended? Leeds No Borders & School of Geography have organised a public meeting this Friday to debate the issue.

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200 More British Police in Calais

22-10-2006 13:05

There are many police officers and I know that the English police force is present at the wearing of Calais. These last times, some refugees said to me they have heard that 200 additional English police officers would have arrived in our city.

Indeed, I start to see appearing in the streets of the special vehicles, registered in the United Kingdom and which are the same of vehicles of police force.

Does anyone have any information for this special police force in Calais?

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Human trafficking and the terms of engagement.

19-10-2006 10:43

This article suggests a cross-cultural consideration is needed when trying to devise policy concerning the trafficking of humans.

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Five years since Australia’s SIEV X tragedy: the official cover-up continues

19-10-2006 08:02

Those responsible be held to account
Only through the development of a new political movement of the working class, completely independent of the establishment parties and organizations and prepared to challenge the very foundations of the present social and economic order, will the truth about the tragedy of SIEV X emerge and those responsible be held to account.

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Ismet Hyseni - Belongs to Glasgow

19-10-2006 05:18

Ismet Hyseni - Belongs to Glasgow
Ismet and the Hyseni clan were amongst the first asylum seekers to come to Glasgow in 1999. Why, after 7 years, is Ismet still waiting for the right to settle permanently in UK? Why was he taken into detention without justification and in a dawn raid? Why is his future still uncertain? Why is he faced with the worry of being forcibly removed from UK? Ismet has a dream - to be a maths teacher here in UK. Please help him stay in UK so he can fulfill his dream - but importantly, because such a dream is also UK's gain economically and socially.

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DEMOSTRATE! Dallas Court, Monday, 23 October 2006

19-10-2006 01:20

Defend Matthew & Family!
The North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! are calling a demonstration/protest for Monday, 23 October 2006, at 10.30 am outside Dallas Court Reporting Centre, South Langworthy Road, Salford Quays [Broadway Tram stop]. This is in support of Mathew Adekunle and his family [his wife, a five-year-old, two-year-old and a 3-month-old baby] who have been asked to report with 'all their documents'. It is possible that they will be kidnapped and maybe later forcibly deported against their will if this happens.

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Major public meeting on African asylum situation in Leeds

17-10-2006 23:40

Leeds No Borders has announced a major public meeting for Friday 27th October on the critical situation facing African migrants living in Leeds. The meeting aims to uncover what life is like in Africa, why and how its people are fleeing to the UK to claim asylum or work, and how they are treated when here.

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Save Perparim Demaj from Deportation!

17-10-2006 18:09

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