This blog series features the voices of those who are housed in hotels in the North West while waiting for their asylum claim to be processed. Previous blogs explored the emergence and context of the hotels policy, and food and living conditions in hotels. In this blog, we hear about…
This blog series features the voices of those who are housed in hotels in the North West while waiting for their asylum claim to be processed. The last blog explored the emergence and context of the hotels policy. This blog focuses on food and living conditions in hotels. In future…
This blog series will feature the voices of those who are housed in hotels in the North West while waiting for their asylum claim to be processed. Asylum hotels are increasingly in the headlines, as the government uses complaints about ‘Hotel Britain’ to justify its increasingly hostile plans around asylum.…
Across the country, tens of thousands of people seeking asylum are being housed by the Home Office in hotels for months or years on end while they are waiting for their asylum claim to be processed. Hotels vary in quality, location and access to services. In all of them, people…
To the Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick, We are 5 unaccompanied young people from Sudan seeking asylum in Manchester. We want to tell you about how we’re feeling seeing what is happening in Sudan. We miss our families in Sudan and we’re very worried about them. We have no idea where…
Yesterday Manchester showed up in St Peter’s Square in the rain (of course) to say it loud and say it clear, refugees are welcome here! On the day this government’s Illegal Migration Bill was being pulled apart in the House of Lords – by the Archbishop of Canterbury who called…
The Migrant Destitution Fund (MDF) supports people across Greater Manchester with monthly cash grants of £80 when they find themselves destitute due to their immigration status. Since 2020 they have given out over 2,500 grants totalling £215k to people who have no right to work and no recourse to public…
The Windrush Legal Initiative received some good news recently: Chantelle, who lawyers have been supporting with her claim for compensation, learned that she’d been successful and would receive substantial compensation. It’s a milestone for us: the first full decision the Windrush Legal Initiative has seen. Today, April 17th, also marks…
Write to your MP to tell them that Greater Manchester welcomes refugees and stands against the cruel new Refugee Ban Bill. The government is currently in the process of destroying the asylum system as we know it, with their “Illegal Migration Bill” (dubbed the Refugee Ban Bill). Pushing it…
Today Suella Braverman announced the government’s latest plans in their assault on the right to seek safety in the UK. Rather than address any of the glaring issues in its failing asylum system – huge delays, dangerous and inappropriate accommodation, and abdication of responsibilities to children – the government once…