We went down and spent the afternoon with the volunteers at a local synagogue run refugee charity called: New North London Synagogue Drop-In Centre. Taking place the first Sunday of the month, volunteer: David Solomons talks us through what happens on the day and what happens in preparation before. Continue reading
Check out our liveblog of the event being streamed at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies! Here’s a precis: different perspectives exist on how refugee protection should function within each region. This session interrogates how such ‘localized’ asylum concepts and mechanisms emerge and adapt in response to the impact of refugee flows … Continue reading
The number of pending applications received for asylum has risen from just over 6,000 at the start of the Coalition to over 9,800 in the most recent figures (February 2014). Since Home Secretary Theresa May closed the UK Border Agency 13months ago, UK Visas and Immigration has been subsumed into the Home Office. Despite … Continue reading
Great interview with Jem Stein, founder of The Bike Project. He talks about funding, how he got into working with refugees, his rationale for giving away bikes to asylum seekers and much more! He’s the guy second from the left! Give it a listen! Photos by Refugees London Continue reading
Have you seen our list of best Twitter accounts associated with refugees and asylum seekers? Follow them here…. @MigrantVoiceUK aiming to change how migrants are shown in the media. Here’s their website so find out more! @RAMFELCharity is the Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex and London, here’s the website! WomenforRefugeeWomen: @4refugeewomen, speaking … Continue reading
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Politicians on Question Time panels have regularly mooted that the actual figures of UK immigration are always skewed, but certainly never correct. Last week showed that to be true. The Office of National Statistics showed that net migration to UK has been ‘underestimated’ by nearly 350,000. And if austerity hasn’t been biting the nation too … Continue reading
Eight and a half years ago, two intrepid women from the New North London Synagogue – a journalist and a TEFL teacher – set up a drop-in centre for destitute asylum seekers on the first Sunday of every month.. At one of our first sessions in 2006, seven volunteers hovered over one asylum seeker. After twenty … Continue reading
Kiz is from Burundi and now works with The Bike Project in Hackney (read more here). Read or listen to his interview below: Here’s a short three minute interview about Kiz’ story: Tell me about yourself My name is Kiz and I’m from Burundi. I came through here in 2001 and I got friends from Ladbroke and … Continue reading
Voters in Switzerland have marginally supported a referendum proposal to impose quotas for immigrants coming from the EU. 50.3% voted in favour of the quotas which contradicts an agreement between the country and the EU in terms of freedom of movement. Great article about it at The Economist and the Financial Times reports worrying trends … Continue reading
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