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I am Journalist and an activist, former asylum seeker, project manager at Refugees for Justice and research assistant at UNESCO RILA. I write about politics, mainly focusing on social justice and immigration policy. Sometime I have been called (Savan Neilson).
The Home Office wants Nsaku to answer 200 questions over two hours to prove his right to asylum. Sitting in his solicitor's office, the 22-year-old slumps in the chair, head bowed, eyes averted. He says nothing. His mum Kamia (not their real names) speaks for him in English thickly accented with the inflections of Congolese French.
Savan Qadir, former asylum seeker, activist and research assistance, writes about why Scottish independence can help give refugees and asylum seekers independence and a sense of belonging SCOTTISH society has some unique perspectives when it comes to diversity, inclusiveness, and welcoming people from all around the world - making no distinction between white or minority ethnic refugees and asylum seekers.
THE UK's Nationality and Borders bill, also known as the anti-refugee bill, specifically intends to make life worse for people who seek asylum in the United Kingdom. In doing so, the UK Government hopes to reduce the number of refugees that come to the UK.
TO much fanfare, the UK government has recently announced that people who came to the UK from the 1st of January 2022 and are failed asylum seekers will be removed from the UK to Rwanda. As part of the deal with Rwanda that Priti Patel has signed recently, asylum seekers who came to the UK via irregular routes may now be removed to Rwanda.
Campaigners have been taking action against housing company Mears in protests against the treatment of asylum seekers. Glasgow No Evictions Network took part in a nationwide week of action (1st-5th April) protesting against the use of institutional accommodation and the inhumane treatment of asylum seekers in the UK.
Left-wing leaders of yesterday's Peckham protest are pictured for the first time Around 200 campaigners and Labour councillors blocked the Home Office raid A Nigerian national suspected of overstaying his visa was released after clashes Organiser dubbed PM 'Kim Johnson' and accused cops of 'kidnapping' migrants At least three Labour councillors including a self-styled Marxist primary school teacher led the blockade of an immigration raid in south-east London yesterday.
MORE than a dozen organisations supporting asylum seeker rights are calling for an end to the use of hotels as housing for people seeking sanctuary in Scotland. The Roof Coalition, formed of housing, community, human rights and legal organisations, is demanding the Home Office improve accommodation conditions.
An asylum seeker who has been living in a hotel for more than six months says it is "worse than prison" because no-one knows when they will finally be given proper accommodation. Isaias, from Eritrea, spoke out as campaigners called for an end to the "damaging and inhumane use of hotels and other forms of institutional accommodation for asylum seekers across Scotland".