State repression – South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG)

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 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 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 Admin24th October 20180G4S, Migration, State repression

Discuss “The UK Border Regime: a critical guide” Sheffield November 6

A vital and comprehensive resource for anyone trying understand the border regime, and ask how we can fight it effectively has been produced by Corporate Watch. The book The UK Border Regime: a critical guide…

By Admin24th April 20180Asylum, Migration, State repression

The roots of the Hostile Environment

In December 2013 SYMAAG organised a protest in Sheffield against the 2014 Immigration Act which put into law many of the measures designed to create a “Hostile Environment” for what then Home Secretary Theresa May…

By Admin26th March 2017Asylum, Campaigns, Sheffield, State repression

“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…

By Admin29th March 20160Asylum, Sheffield, State repression

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…

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