Category Archives for Asylum

Asylum Housing Campaign Guide: Challenging Instructions to Move Home – UPDATED
23rd August 20120Asylum, Campaigns, G4S, Sheffield

Asylum Housing Campaign Guide: Challenging Instructions to Move Home – UPDATED

It’s everyone’s right to live in decent, suitable housing, regardless of their immigration status or where they were born. Many people seeking asylum in South Yorkshire will be asked to move house, sometimes to a…
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UKBA: “No evidence that returnees to DRC are at risk”
23rd August 20120Asylum

UKBA: “No evidence that returnees to DRC are at risk”

Latest: “No reliable evidence..that a returnee has experienced harm or ill-treatment after being returned to the DRC from the UK” – UK Government. When MP Tom Blenkinsop asked this question in Parliament he received the…
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G4S Asylum Housing: Lowering Standards, Demolishing Accountability
20th August 20120Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

G4S Asylum Housing: Lowering Standards, Demolishing Accountability

Note: UKBA statement on transport of people’s belongings issued 1st August 2012. We have been finding cases where people have been told they cannot transport more than 2 bags of their belongings when being moved. In…
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G4S in the “Asylum Market”
13th August 20120Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

G4S in the “Asylum Market”

At a G4S-requested meeting with SYMAAG back in February 2012, their representatives explained that G4S’ “primary concern” was to make money for their shareholders in what they called “the asylum market”. It’s 6 months into…
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“G4S: Olympic Chaos, Asylum Housing Chaos” – A SYMAAG Statement
27th July 20120Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

“G4S: Olympic Chaos, Asylum Housing Chaos” – A SYMAAG Statement

  Private security army G4S have been in the news a lot recently. And not just because they are being paid £135 million of public money to house asylum seekers in Yorkshire, despite their record…
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Target Housing: Sheffield Charity’s Reputation Shredded By G4S Deal
27th July 20120Asylum, Campaigns, G4S, Sheffield

Target Housing: Sheffield Charity’s Reputation Shredded By G4S Deal

When G4S eventually won the COMPASS contract to house asylum seekers in Yorkshire, Humberside and the Midlands they were well aware that their experience with asylum seekers was limited to detaining them, transporting them to…
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UKBA: “No evidence that returnees to DRC are at risk”
10th July 20120Asylum, Campaigns

UKBA: “No evidence that returnees to DRC are at risk”

Latest news: UKBA claim there is “no evidence to substantiate the allegations that returnees to the DRC are at risk” (UKBA Chief Executive Rob Whiteman in a letter to Paul Blomfield MP 31/7/12.) See Returns…
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G4S and Jimmy Mubenga
28th June 20120Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

G4S and Jimmy Mubenga

Away from the front pages was the decision by the Crown Prosecution Service not to charge G4S with manslaughter following the death of Jimmy Mubenga, an Angolan asylum seeker who died while being deported by…
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Stopping the Privatisation of Asylum and Council Housing
18th June 20120Asylum, Campaigns, G4S, Sheffield

Stopping the Privatisation of Asylum and Council Housing

 SYMAAG invited to Defend Council Housing conference   We’re pleased to report that SYMAAG members were invited to give a presentation at a recent conference of the Defend Council Housing (DCH) campaign group. They spoke about the danger…
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Bradford woman gets re-housed: UKBA feel the pressure
31st May 20120Asylum, Campaigns, G4S

Bradford woman gets re-housed: UKBA feel the pressure

It’s 3 weeks since we wrote the article below about a Bradford-based asylum seeking mother, and her baby being evicted and dumped in Doncaster. Since then SYMAAG and Why Refugee Women? are pleased to announce that she…
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