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

By Admin19th May 20230Asylum Housing, Barnsley, Mears, Sheffield

Will Government attacks on asylum tenants succeed?

This week the Government announced plans to remove basic protections to asylum tenants including safety regulations and protections against overcrowded conditions. SYMAAG has worked in solidarity with asylum tenants for safe and dignified asylum accommodation…

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 Admin12th December 20220General, Sheffield

Cases into issues, issues into causes and causes into a movement – 50 Years of the Institute of Race Relations.

The latest in our series of SYMAAG Talks For Change event took place in Sheffield on December 3rd. We were pleased to welcome Liz Fekete, Director of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) as our…

By Admin26th January 20200Asylum, Detention, Sheffield

Justice for Simba: emergency protest 10am January 27th Vulcan House Sheffield

Our friend Simba needs your help. He is gravely ill and in no physical state to leave the house, but tomorrow the Home Office have demanded he attends Vulcan House, the Sheffield Home Office building,…

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 Admin28th August 20190Asylum Housing, Sheffield

Sheffield: Hostile Environment or City of Sanctuary?

When is a City of Sanctuary not a City of Sanctuary? When it colludes with Immigration Compliance and Enforcement bodies by sharing information on its residents who are undocumented migrants. Sheffield City Council (SCC) has…

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…

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