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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 Admin17th February 20170Asylum, Campaigns, G4S, Sheffield

Fail, fail and have another contract

Security contractors G4S and Serco and housing company Clearsprings have for years supplied UK asylum seekers with shoddy housing. The contracts carry on regardless. Fail, fail, and have another government contract John Grayson 16 February…

By Admin1st February 20170Asylum, G4S, Sheffield

Asylum Market: the film G4S don’t want you to see

“Asylum accommodation is a disgrace” was the conclusion of the Home Affairs Select Committee’s report on privatised asylum housing on 30th January. The same day the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire show was also due to hear…

By Admin21st December 20160Asylum, Campaigns, G4S, Sheffield

Merry Christmas from G4S, you’re evicted

After constant failures and abuse of asylum housing tenants over nearly five years, and serious jail riots at a G4S managed Birmingham prison it is still business as usual as G4S (and Serco, and Clearsprings)…

By Admin20th November 20160Asylum, G4S, Sheffield

Welcome to my asylum home. I’d offer you a seat — if I had one

No chairs or table. Dangerous gas appliances. A blood-stained mattress. Rats. Squalor. Asylum housing today Local authorities, charities and asylum tenants from all over the UK have given evidence that indicates the failure of the…

By Admin14th September 20160Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

Rats in the yard: 4 years of UK asylum housing by G4S

“They simply want to make profits out of us, they show us no respect.” Why are we still handing public money to G4S, Serco and Clearsprings despite all the evidence of their failure to treat…

By Admin18th July 20160Europe, Migration, Sheffield

Grande Synthe and Calais: July eyewitness report and appeal for support

Grande Synthe and Calais, July 2016 As Caroline and I prepare for our latest trip, the news from Calais is pretty dire – few volunteers are at the warehouse and cold food distribution has had to…

By Admin25th April 20160Asylum, Europe, G4S, Migration

The Business of Migration

For corporations like G4S, Serco, Capita and Mitie the suffering of refugees is part of their “asylum markets”. The biggest ever single Home Office contract – the disastrous COMPASS asylum housing contract – is up…

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…

By Admin31st January 20160Asylum, Europe, Sheffield, State repression

Back to Calais, a 2-way aid trip

We had to leave a lot of stuff behind in Sheffield on our November trip to Calais, including 70 food parcels that were lovingly made up by the good people of Pitsmoor. Post-Christmas there have…

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