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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“We need humanity and accountability” in asylum housing
Asylum tenants organise at Sheffield conference This was the first national meeting of asylum tenants. At the same time as a new £4 billion 10 year government contract for asylum housing and related services is…
