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(August 01, 2016)
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| Don Flynn, 1 August 2016 What else could Byron’s have done? The social media world was awash with attempted defences of the hamburger chain after it collaborated in the arrest of 35 of its migrant workers earlier in July. Our answer is they didn’t have to go along with the shabby act of entrapment of its staff, and they could have done so much more to push back against punitive, anti-worker rules. | Migration Pulse
| Gayle Munro, 27 July 2016 Migration experts are debating the extent to which the increased numbers of those seeking refuge across Europe can be considered a ‘crisis’. But rejecting the idea that there is a crisis and reducing the current migration situation to a ‘numbers game’ risks negating the real lived experience of migrant destitution. So how can the voluntary sector respond to such a crisis given its increasing reliance on government contracts?
| | William Archer, 1 August 2016 The APPG on Sudan and South Sudan is calling on all organisations and individuals working on migration to contribute to its inquiry through written submissions. William Archer, Secretariat for the group, explains why.
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| Immigration raids in which dozens of people were netted has sparked calls to boycott the burger chain Byron. A wave of street protests at Byron restaurants across London has also been organised.
| | G4S, the controversial outsourcing firm heavily criticised for its running of youth jails and immigration centres, has been awarded the contract to take over a key government equality helpline for those who have faced discrimination on the grounds of their sex, race, or disability.
| | JCWI has made a renewed call for evidence on the ‘right to rent’ scheme. The scheme requires landlords and agents to check the immigration status of tenants and lodgers.
| | The government’s new four year hate crime action plan, Action Against Hate, has been criticised by the Coalition of Race Equality Organisations (CORE).
| | ‘There should be a strict time limit on the length of detention and caseworkers should act with diligence and expedition’ says HM Inspector of Prisons in the latest inspection report on Colnbrook Detention Centre.
| | MPs have backed the Refugee Council’s call for child refugees who have reached Britain by themselves to be allowed to reunite with their parents. The Refugee Council has long campaigned for the rules to be changed so child refugees are able to live in safety with their families.
| | A majority of people (55%) felt Nigel Farage’s ‘Breaking point’ poster went too far, including half (49%) of those ‘undecided Leavers’ who made their minds up during campaign according to a new report from think-tank British Future.
| Community and faith groups will be able to sponsor Syrian refugee families who are being resettled in the UK under a new scheme launched by the government. | | The summer issue of the anti-racist magazine 'Unity', has been co-published by Unite Against Facism and the National Union of Teachers.
| | The Home Office’s failure to put data on computers is delaying the processing of cases and does not inspire confidence in their ability to manage this caseload says the latest Home Affairs Committee report into the work of the immigration directorates.
| | The Home Affairs Committee says the immigration directorates must be prepared and resourced to deal with the heavy extra demands placed on them by the fallout from Brexit. Post-Brexit attempts to limit non-EU migration, and the uncertainly over migration within Europe during the exit negotiations, could both lead to a surge in immigration.
| | New Europeans has produced a series of Know Your Rights guides for EU nationals living in the UK.
| | Campaign group the Anti-Raids Network has issued advice on what to do if you see an immigration raid in progress.
| | The UK’s reluctance to take its share of unaccompanied migrant children is “deplorable”, says a House of Lords report. And the UK is shirking its responsibility to care for thousands of unaccompanied migrant children, dismissing them as “somebody else’s problem”, it concludes.
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