Who Supports Asylum and Migrant Rights?
The General Election on June 8th gives us the chance to support parties and candidates in South Yorkshire who stand for asylum and migrant rights. We’ll be helping you decide who they are by holding…
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Behave or get deported, says G4S
Not just squalor but intimidation in G4S asylum housing. Alongside asylum tenants we have documented conditions in asylum housing since the contract was handed to G4S, Serco and Clearsprings by the Home Office in 2012.…
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…
“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…
Grande Synthe and Calais: July eyewitness report and appeal for support
Grande Synthe and Calais, July 2016 As Caroline and I prepare for our latest trip, the news from Calais is pretty dire – few volunteers are at the warehouse and cold food distribution has had to…
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…
