Campaigns – Page 2 – South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG)

By Admin24th February 20190Asylum, Campaigns, Sheffield

Resistance to Zimbabwe deportation plan grows

Victor, Khuzani and Benji, Zimbabweans from South Yorkshire have been released from Morton Hall detention centre. Marian and the other people interviewed by the Zimbabwean Embassy official at Sheffield Home Office have not been detained…

By Admin12th February 20190Campaigns, Detention, Sheffield, State repression

No Deportations to Zimbabwe – protest Tues 19th Feb 9am Vulcan House

So far two asylum seekers from Sheffield/Zimbabwe have been detained and are threatened with deportation to Zimbabwe. They were detained when they went to Vulcan House, the Home Office building in Sheffield for an ‘interview’…

By Admin15th January 20190Asylum Housing, Campaigns, G4S

“G4S tenants will be dancing in the streets”

After a six year campaign by asylum tenants G4S have lost their contracts to run asylum housing. From September 2019 tenants will not have “a prison guard as a landlord” The new 10 year £4…

By Admin19th December 20180Campaigns, Sheffield, State repression

Sheffield Stands with the Stansted 15

December 18th, International Migrants Day, was a day of action in support of the Stansted 15 who were convicted of terror-related offences for stopping a deportation charter flight taking off. In doing so they saved…

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 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…