April | 2018 | Novara Media

Laverstoke Court: Where Is the Anti-Racist Response to Derby’s New Asylum Accommodation Centre?

by Connor Woodman

Racist backlash from white residents, outsourcing, the ‘dispersal’ regime and the failures of liberal refugee rights groups have all converged around the opening of a new 'initial accommodation' centre for asylum seekers. Connor Woodman reports from the East Midlands.

Can Javid Stop the Ruddslide?

So last night Amber Rudd sensationally resigned from her role as Home Secretary after it became clear that her sustained stay in office was untenable. Can Sajid Javid save the day?

Hunger For Freedom: Campaigning Against Detention From Inside and Outside Yarl’s Wood

by Irene Renny and Tom Kemp

The success of the last Yarl's Wood hunger strike shows that listening to and collaborating with people in detention is an imperative part of building a successful anti-detention movement. What else can the protest teach us about organising against detention and showing solidarity with those inside?

These Five Victories in the Fight for Migrants’ Rights Show We Can Win

by Charlotte England

The government backtracked on its demand that schools collect data on pupils’ nationality and country of birth this month, presenting a sudden and startling victory to campaigners opposing the hostile environment. Here are five other key wins in the fight for migrants’ rights in Britain.

After Windrush: Britain and Migration

On #NovaraFM, James Butler, Aaron Bastani and Ash Sarkar look at the politics of the recent Windrush crisis, the history of migration policy in the UK, and ask: what could a left-wing migration policy look like?

What Is the Hostile Environment?

British children sleeping on night buses or in storage units, torture survivors required to pay upfront for medical treatment, these are just some of the consequences of Theresa May’s ‘hostile environment’. In this explainer video; Migrants Rights Specialist Rockhaya Sylla unpacks some of the origins and repercussions of this harmful set of policies.

Outsourcing Incarceration: Privitisation in Britain’s Immigration Detention Estate

by Rudy Schulkind

The private companies that run Britain's detention centres have repeatedly failed to protect the rights, dignity and safety of the people they imprison. But the Home Office has created a system in which it is incredibly difficult to hold them to account.

A Short Guide to Deportation Charter Flights

by Phil Miller

Mass deportations on chartered aircraft are only one small part of the UK’s deportation system. But in many ways they are the system’s most violent and terrifying instrument, taking place away from the public gaze in secretive night-time flights.

Britain’s Plan to Build a Prison in Nigeria is Wrong and Must Be Stopped

by Natalie Fiennes

As the government unveils plans to build a new prison wing in Nigeria, it’s clear it's not just the Windrush generation affected by a cruel and unjust UK immigration policy.

Why Hasn’t Theresa May Resigned?

Failure after failure after failure, what will it take for this government to resign?

A Progressive Immigration Policy?

If we get a left-wing Labour government led by Jeremy Corbyn, they will have an immigration system, and what that will look like matters - for migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. Maya Goodfellow discusses how we might get there.

Refugees in Indonesia and Iraq Condemn Western Indifference

by Matt Broomfield

Coverage of the 'refugee crisis' tends to focus on the West, particularly on Europe, but none of the seven countries worldwide to host over half a million refugees are in the EU or North America. Instead, most refugees live on the periphery, confined to squalid, brutal detention centres and stripped of even the scant protection afforded to asylum-seekers on European shores.

“It’s strikes that win”: UCU, Students and the Fight Against Outsourcing

by Joe Hayns

Over the last two days, more than 100 outsourced staff have stopped work at UoL in what will likely be the largest outsourced workers’ strike in higher education history.

Beyond Prison: Michael Balogun Part 2

On the Lockdown, Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann chat with Michael Balogun (whose incredible story is discussed in part 1) about what could be in place instead of a system of punishment.

Theresa May Must Resign

Windrush Brits are being detained and deported and it is a disgrace. When will Theresa May have the dignity to resign? For more articles, videos and podcasts as part of our migration focus head to novaramedia.com/focus/migration

Sticks and Stones May Break Owen Jones, but Words Will Never Hurt Him

Owen Jones joins Matt Zarb-Cousin and Max Shanly on All The Best for a lively discussion on Lycamobile scandal, the Windrush scandal, problems with the media and a general salting sesh.

Domestic Violence or Deportation? The Migrant Women Forced to Choose

by Niamh McIntyre

Many migrants don’t have an automatic right to the protections and spaces most in the UK take for granted. For thousands of migrant women who experience domestic violence every year, it can often come down to a difficult choice - stay in an abusive relationship, or risk being reported to the Home Office.

We Don’t Need Borders

We think of borders as the most natural thing in the world. In reality, they are an unnecessary evil, and fighting them has to be a top priority. Here’s why borders have no place in a just world.