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Newsletter March 2010
This is the March 2010 issue of The Forum's newsletter. In this issue we discuss the realities of families and individuals who are living in detention centres in the UK. We also examine the various...
View ArticleMigration on the Agenda
Let's have a look at the immigration debate in the post-election coalition honeymoon. While the opposition is looking for a new leader and while their candidates are deciding how to position themselves...
View ArticleMigrants for London [video]
Migrants' Rights Network (MRN), with the support of MRCF, recently produced and launched- 'Migrants for London'. This video explores the conflicting reality of many migrants: although London needs...
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This Year’s Christmas Present: A Coherent Integration Policy?
This year for Christmas we might get the new government’s integration policy. Should we rejoice or be worried? Reason to be cheerful no. 1 is the fact that integration is regarded as important and...
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Night workers: Market Trader
Zaheer came from Pakistan in 2009 at the age of 25. His extended family helped him to settle when he arrived to the UK. He is married and has a 6 month old daughter. He studied a BSc in Business at...
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Night workers: Day-time Student, Night-time Rickshaw Driver
Featured photo courtesy of Martino's doodle Faruk arrived to the UK from Bangladesh about 5 years ago. He lives with his wife and he does an MBA course at LSE till September 2013. He has been a...
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Put the LIGHT ON Racism
Have you been a victim of hate speech? If so, The Forum would like to hear from you. The Forum is working on an EU wide project to combat hate speech and racism. We have designed a short survey for...
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The Forum’s 20th Anniversary
2013 at The Forum was a year as great as it was challenging. The challenges come from a hostile policy and public environment in which immigrants continue to be blamed for all kinds of social...
View ArticleThe power of words – Here we go again with “illegal”!
Just before the dramatic resignation of the Immigration Minister Mark Harper, which has equally dramatically increased the use of the term 'illegal immigrant' in the public space, our contributor Panos...
View ArticleWhy We Must Care About Deaths in European Waters
Have you ever visited Farmakonisi? It is in Europe! Specifically, it is a Greek island but not as famous as Rhodes or Corfu, not as beautiful as Santorini, nor as posh as Mykonos. Farmakonisi is small...
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Women on the Move at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict
Last week we were at the Global Summit representing the voices of women who managed to seek protection and yet whose stories are still not heard or understood, even in countries such as the UK. Thank...
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Time to put an end to indefinite detention.
Image copyright DIBP images Over 30,000 people were locked up in the UK last year - but not because they had committed a crime. They were trying to apply for the right to stay in this country. They...
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How to solve a problem like Calais?
"The migrants should be deported from French territory and placed in closed detention centres until they can be sent home." These are the words of a young, French self-proclaimed, nationalist at the...
View ArticleWhen support isn’t always supportive
As part of our blog series looking at the isolation that our members face, 'This is how it feels to be lonely' , The Forum’s Mentoring Project Support Worker Heike Langbein explores the reality of...
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Human Too
I am white, middle-aged, white-haired, a woman and a refugee. There are of course many other things that make me who I am, things that I do and the ways I relate to people and the world. When I choose...
View ArticleThe Tamils of London by Amy McConaghy
To mark the Refugee Week 2015 we are publishing a series of excellent articles by students taking an MA in International Journalism at City University. We are very grateful to students for sharing...
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Not Silenced, Just Preferably Unheard
by Ffion Wyn Evans, Participation Manager ”There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” Arundhati Roy Yesterday morning I sat...
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Join a powerful movement of migrant and refugee leaders
The Migrants Organise Community Leadership Academy kicks off again in London this September. The academy is a nine month action-based programme, focused on building the power of migrant and refugee...
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Windrush, Grenfell and Civil Rights: The Legacy of Community Organising in...
“Never accept the bread line, fight for what you want.” Panelists reflect on the history of community organising in North Kensington. Recently, Migrants Organise gathered over one hundred community...
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HELP MIGRANTS ORGANISE RAISE £8K FOR FRONT LINE SERVICES
Migrants Organise members, supporters and staff will be walking 10k this June 17th at the London Legal Walk to raise money for urgent legal and holistic support for migrants and refugees. Last year we...
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