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By Admin4th December 20180Asylum, Sheffield, State repression

Zimbabwe is Not Safe, No Deportations, No Home Office/Embassy Intimidation

Protest Monday 10th Dec 11am outside Vulcan House Home Office 6 Millsands, Sheffield S3 8NU At Vulcan House, Sheffield the Home Office invited representatives of the Zimbabwean government to ask questions of Zimbabwean refugees in…

By Admin16th October 20180Asylum, Campaigns

Lift The Ban on Asylum Seekers Right to Work

Right now, right here in the UK, people seeking refugee status are banned from working whilst they wait months, and often years, for a decision on their asylum claim. Instead, they are left to live…

By Admin1st August 20180Asylum, General, Sheffield

Asylum Journey Sheffield

Asylum Journey Sheffield website has information about services and resources for asylum seekers and refugees in Sheffield. Created by Sheffugees it is a comprehensive and easily searchable resource for people at each stage of the asylum…

By Admin18th July 20180Asylum, Campaigns, Sheffield

Zimbabwe still not safe – Sheffield Protest Against Deportations July 25

End Forced Deportations to Zimbabwe Demonstrate outside Sheffield Town Hall Wednesday 25th July 12noon to 1pm Stop another Windrush Scandal According to New Zimbabwe.com, British ambassador to Zimbabwe, Catriona Laing, in February 2018 told Zimbabwean Deputy…

By Admin2nd July 20180Asylum, Asylum Housing, Sheffield

Tell Sheffield Council: Treat Homeless Asylum Children with Respect! Wed 4 July

A recent investigation by John Grayson and Violet Dickenson of SYMAAG revealed that Sheffield City Council are treating homeless asylum seeking children unlawfully and disrespectfully. These children and families have No Recourse to Public Funds…

By Admin5th June 20180Asylum, Asylum Housing

Rodents, bedbugs, mould: UK asylum housing is a Hostile Environment

A Manchester asylum hostel run by Britain’s biggest outsourcer Serco is riddled with cockroaches, rodents and bedbugs. by John Grayson Mothers with babies in a Manchester hostel run by Serco have shown us their dirty and…

By Admin23rd May 20180Asylum, Campaigns, Sheffield

Zimbabwe: “no changes and no democracy”

Why Zimbabwe is still not safe for refugees like Marian Machekanyanga Marian was forced to leave Zimbabwe in November 2002 as a result of victimisation and mistreatment. As a member of a workers committee in a…

By Admin9th May 20180Asylum, Sheffield

How UK migration rules make children homeless

Councils are forcing children into homelessness and destitution simply because of their parents’ migration status. by VIOLET DICKENSON and JOHN GRAYSON Alara Bed & Breakfast room shared by Amy’s family of five (John Grayson) For two…

By Admin9th May 20180Asylum, Sheffield

Mothers and children unlawfully housed in Sheffield B&Bs for years

VIOLET DICKENSON and JOHN GRAYSON 5 April 2018 Women and young children routinely placed in shared hostels with vulnerable homeless men. Earl Marshall Guest House (John Grayson) Mothers with young children have spent months on end in Bed…

By Admin24th April 20180Asylum, Migration, State repression

The roots of the Hostile Environment

In December 2013 SYMAAG organised a protest in Sheffield against the 2014 Immigration Act which put into law many of the measures designed to create a “Hostile Environment” for what then Home Secretary Theresa May…

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