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Taking forced marriage seriously....?
Yes but only as a way to curb immigration apparently. Rahila Gupta has written on just this topic: how the proposed Forced Marriage legislation is actually a way of limiting immigration dressed up as protecting women's rights. You can read...
Published: 28 February 2008
Scandal hits immigration service again
An immigration official has been caught on video propositioning a teenage rape victim from Zimbabwe, and offering to grease the wheels to help her claim asylum, just two months after the Home Office promised to crack down on similar abuses....
Published: 21 May 2006
Chavez enters EU immigration debate
In a fightback from the post colonial commons, Hugo Chavez of Venezula is threatening to withhold oil and prevent EU investments in Venezula should the EU go ahead with the new immigration law - the "Returns Directive". In a televised...
Published: 27 June 2008
US immigration law discriminates against lesbians
Reforms to US immigration law are bypassing lesbian couples, according to a story on Women's eNews. Perhaps unsurprisingly in the current political climate states-side, efforts to legalise the status of millions of migrant workers have ignored the plight of same-sex...
Published: 26 September 2006
All candidate for London mayor support immigration amnesty
Every single candidate for the London mayoral elections in May - even Tory Boris Johnson - supports an amnesty which would allow illegal immigrants living in the UK for four years or more to follow a "path to citizenship", reports...
Published: 9 April 2008
Immigration Services does it again...
Last year the parts of the Immigration Service which run immigrant detention centres were told to stop separating breast-feeding mothers from their babies. The previous cases were said to: "fly in the face of a number of UN resolutions and...
Published: 24 May 2007
Immigration officials caught "selling" visas for sex
Immigration officials have been operating a "sex for visas" scam at one of the country's busiest immigration centres, according to a 23 year old whistleblower who left the service in disgust at the practice, the Sun reports. Leaving aside their...
Published: 3 January 2006
Preston refuge side-steps anti-immigrant government rules
It's far from a complete solution, but it is progress: Preston Women's Refuge has become the first in the country to open their doors to women with insecure immigration status. Because of the 'no recourse to public funds' rule, women...
Published: 4 November 2008
Mass Lobby of Parliament to End Violence Against Women
Amnesty International have organised a mass labby of parliament on Wednesday November 4th to push for a comprehensive end violence against women strategy: The UK Government is obliged to protect, respect and fulfil women’s human rights. As the 2010 general...
Published: 27 October 2009
We should be ashamed
Shakesville has a good round-up post on the news that Mehdi Kazemi and Pegah Emambakhsh look set to be deported from the UK to Iran because of our government's shameful asylum policy. 19 year-old Kazemi was actually forced to seek...
Published: 12 March 2008
Solidarity Protest for Yarls Wood Hunger Strike
There has been a hunger strike taking place since Tuesday in the Yarls Wood immigration prison: Mothers and Fathers in detention at the Yarl's Wood detention centre near Bedford have been on hunger strike for the past 2 days over...
Published: 18 June 2009
Refugee Week starts today
Refugee Week began today, and there is a full programme of events going on up and down the country. Also see this piece in the Guardian, in which Mark Haddon visits the Migrant Resources Centre in London. There's a sharp...
Published: 16 June 2008
Things to know about the history of UK immigration laws
What is the history of the UK's immigration laws? Rahila Gupta has a piece in the Guardian's CIF today. She puts the recent effort to reduce forced marriages by the UK government, by ruling that you have to be at...
Published: 19 August 2009
Abolish No Recourse Day of Action
One of the ways our immigration 'system' discriminates against women is the "no recourse to public funds" rule, which prevents any person who has migrated to the UK on the basis of marriage to a citizen from using public services...
Published: 22 April 2008
Stephanie Toumi - an indictment of our immigration system
26-year-old Stephanie Toumi was on the first leg of a forced journey back to Cameroon. Her asylum claim had been rejected, and she'd already passed through the notorious Yarl's Wood detention centre. Whether or not she 'deserved' to stay in...
Published: 30 June 2008
Deporting rapists doesn't solve anything
A judge has halted the deportation of 20 year-old Mohammed Kendeh, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in 2003, and has admitted to 11 cases of assault, reports The Metro. Last year, the Home Office tried to deport...
Published: 31 October 2007
Child prisoners in UK detention centers
For years the British government has tried to cover up the truth of what happens to women and children in detention centers such as Yarlswood. Now Sir Al Aynsley-Green, who is the Children’s Commissioner has exposed the reality for children in Yarlswood, nonetheless the government is refusing to change it’s policy towards asylum seekers in general and the detention of children in particular…
Published: 11 September 2008
A story of misplaced paternalism and the wrong answer to a pressing problem
An HIV-positive pregnant woman has been jailed by a US judge, who believes that the health-care provided by the country's immigration system is so poor, that prison is her best bet for ensuring she doesn't pass on HIV to her...
Published: 3 June 2009
MPs and Peers call for action on trafficking
A House of Lords/House of Commons Joint Committee on Human Rights has published a report calling for more to be done to tackle the problem of human trafficking for prostitution, described as \x93one of the most serious human rights issues...
Published: 13 October 2006
Protest deportation of cleaners; feminist poet among those denied artist visas to UK
A protest is planned in London this Friday lunchtime, in support of SOAS cleaners - nine cleaners were seized in an immigration raid shortly after they won union recognition and a pay raise to the level of the London living...
Published: 14 July 2009

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