Sheffield – Page 2 – South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG)

By Admin18th June 20190General, Sheffield

SYMAAG Annual General Meeting Tuesday 25th June

Reflect on the past and plan for the future! We are pleased to welcome our guest speaker Nita Sanghera. Nita is Vice President of the University and College Union (UCU). She will talk about racism, being…

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 Admin8th March 20190Detention, Sheffield

Sheffield Against Detention and Deportation: meeting 11th March

ASSIST, SYMAAG, and Right to Remain will host a public discussion in Sheffield on 11 March, on the case to end immigration detention, and stop deportations. Join them to hear speakers with experience of the…

By Admin24th February 20190Asylum, Campaigns, Sheffield

Resistance to Zimbabwe deportation plan grows

Victor, Khuzani and Benji, Zimbabweans from South Yorkshire have been released from Morton Hall detention centre. Marian and the other people interviewed by the Zimbabwean Embassy official at Sheffield Home Office have not been detained…

By Admin22nd February 20190Asylum, Barnsley, Sheffield

We’re not frightened anymore – Sheffield says no to Zimbabwe Deportations

I have never been on a demonstration at 9am on a Tuesday morning before. Would everybody else be at work or in bed? Would more than 2 people and a dog turn up? But my…

By Admin12th February 20190Campaigns, Detention, Sheffield, State repression

No Deportations to Zimbabwe – protest Tues 19th Feb 9am Vulcan House

So far two asylum seekers from Sheffield/Zimbabwe have been detained and are threatened with deportation to Zimbabwe. They were detained when they went to Vulcan House, the Home Office building in Sheffield for an ‘interview’…

By Admin19th December 20180Campaigns, Sheffield, State repression

Sheffield Stands with the Stansted 15

December 18th, International Migrants Day, was a day of action in support of the Stansted 15 who were convicted of terror-related offences for stopping a deportation charter flight taking off. In doing so they saved…

By Admin4th December 20180Asylum, Sheffield, State repression

Zimbabwe is Not Safe, No Deportations, No Home Office/Embassy Intimidation

Protest Monday 10th Dec 11am outside Vulcan House Home Office 6 Millsands, Sheffield S3 8NU At Vulcan House, Sheffield the Home Office invited representatives of the Zimbabwean government to ask questions of Zimbabwean refugees in…

By Admin26th November 20180Asylum Housing, Sheffield

Protest against Sheffield Council putting migrant children in Dangerous B&B

Despite assurances Sheffield City Council are still putting migrant children in the dangerous and unsuitable Earl Marshall Bed and Breakfast which John Grayson and Violet Dickenson reported on 6 months ago. This is not acceptable…

By Admin13th November 20180General, Migration, Sheffield

“Welcome to Sheffield” book discussion November 26

SYMAAG founding member and local author David Price will talk about his latest book, “Welcome to Sheffield – A Migration History” November 26th 7-9pm at The Sanctuary 37-39 Chapel Walk Sheffield S1 2PD Some of…

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