A Matter of Pride
Sheffield people rallied around Pride Mbi Agbor when he was detained and threatened with deportation to Cameroon in March. For many people, including local Labour Party members it was an education in the cruelty of…
Category Archives for Asylum
“Tell people what’s happening in here” at Morton Hall migrant prison
10 years ago SYMAAG organised a 3 day/30 mile march from Sheffield to Lindholme Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) near Doncaster to protest against detaining refugees indefinitely. Lindholme has since been closed. Morton Hall is now…
Fail, fail and have another contract
Security contractors G4S and Serco and housing company Clearsprings have for years supplied UK asylum seekers with shoddy housing. The contracts carry on regardless. Fail, fail, and have another government contract John Grayson 16 February…
Asylum Market: the film G4S don’t want you to see
“Asylum accommodation is a disgrace” was the conclusion of the Home Affairs Select Committee’s report on privatised asylum housing on 30th January. The same day the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show was also due to hear…
Merry Christmas from G4S, you’re evicted
After constant failures and abuse of asylum housing tenants over nearly five years, and serious jail riots at a G4S managed Birmingham prison it is still business as usual as G4S (and Serco, and Clearsprings)…
Welcome to my asylum home. I’d offer you a seat — if I had one
No chairs or table. Dangerous gas appliances. A blood-stained mattress. Rats. Squalor. Asylum housing today Local authorities, charities and asylum tenants from all over the UK have given evidence that indicates the failure of the…
Rats in the yard: 4 years of UK asylum housing by G4S
“They simply want to make profits out of us, they show us no respect.” Why are we still handing public money to G4S, Serco and Clearsprings despite all the evidence of their failure to treat…
The Business of Migration
For corporations like G4S, Serco, Capita and Mitie the suffering of refugees is part of their “asylum markets”. The biggest ever single Home Office contract – the disastrous COMPASS asylum housing contract – is up…
The Hostile Environment at Sheffield Home Office
How does it feel for people to go into the Sheffield Home Office building knowing they might get detained and deported? The first event we in the South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action…
Back to Calais, a 2-way aid trip
We had to leave a lot of stuff behind in Sheffield on our November trip to Calais, including 70 food parcels that were lovingly made up by the good people of Pitsmoor. Post-Christmas there have…
