Campaigns – South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG)

By Admin11th February 20230Asylum, Campaigns, General, Migration, Sheffield

SYMAAG starts petition calling on Sheffield City Council to take action on Migrant and Asylum Seeker rights

This week, SYMAAG has started a petition calling on Sheffield City Council to hold a full debate on Migrant and Asylum Seeker Rights at its next full council meeting in March. Specifically, we urge that…

By Admin15th April 20200Asylum Housing, Campaigns, Mears

How Mears are putting asylum tenants in danger

Along with asylum tenants, SYMAAG has long documented conditions in asylum housing in Yorkshire and the north east. We assumed that when Mears took over the asylum housing contract in our region from G4S in…

By Admin10th April 20200Asylum Housing, Campaigns, Mears

Protect asylum residents – Close Urban House in Wakefield.

Asylum residents in Urban House Initial Accommodation Centre in Wakefield are living in overcrowded conditions which endanger their lives. For the past two months as Covid-19 has become a pandemic, people in Urban House hostel…

By Admin13th January 20200Asylum, Campaigns, Europe, Migration, Sheffield, State repression

Don’t Let Them Die in Libya – Sheffield protests 18 January

Don’t let them die in Libya Sheffield march and demonstration Saturday 18 January 12.30pm Meet bottom of The Moor near Moor Market S1 4PF at 12.30 and march to Sheffield Town Hall…

By Admin14th November 20190Asylum, Campaigns, Sheffield, State repression

Justice for Simba – End the Hostile Environment. Sheffield November 20

Simba Mujakachi, his father Victor and many other Zimbabweans living in Sheffield were threatened with deportation earlier this year. A huge campaign successfully defended them, securing the release of Victor and others from Morton Hall…

By Admin8th November 20190Asylum, Campaigns, Sheffield

On the Frontline: Voices of Resistance in the Asylum System

John Grayson and Victor Mujakachi look at solidarity, research and actions in Sheffield by people in the asylum system and their supporters. I got out of Morton Hall because I spoke out loud largely through the…

By Admin14th September 20190Asylum, Campaigns, Sheffield, State repression

The Hostile Environment comes to Sheffield

EXCLUSIVE: Arrests of suspected undocumented migrants soar in Sheffield, the UK’s first City of Sanctuary Since Theresa May launched the “Hostile Environment” South Yorkshire Police have arrested hundreds of Sheffielders every year on suspicion of…

By Admin2nd July 20190Asylum, Campaigns, Detention, Sheffield

Some good news: Hamid is free!

Hamid Baygi has been released from detention and is now back in Sheffield thanks to a successful campaign. He should never have detained. Hamid has lived in the UK for 50 years and was threatened…

By Admin1st June 20190Campaigns, Sheffield

Keep Hamid in Sheffield. Demonstrate Monday 3 June

Hamid Baygi has lived in the UK for 50 years. Now the Home Office want to deport him to Iran on Tuesday 4th June. This is what the ‘hostile environment’ looks like Hamid volunteers to…

By Admin10th May 20190Asylum, Campaigns

No Deportations to Zimbabwe

A huge campaign in South Yorkshire earlier this year secured the release of our Zimbabwean friends Victor, Khuzani and Benji from Morton Hall detention centre. It also prevented their deportations to Zimbabwe where they would…

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