A Day in the Life of a Marxist Immigration Barrister
An anonymous immigration barrister describes a typical day at work, the uphill battle of dismantling the British imperial border and why theirs is a job that really shouldn’t exist.
Tag: detention
Lights in the Distance: Migration in Europe
On #NovaraFM, James Butler talks to Daniel Trilling and Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi on migration to Europe, the politics of cross-border movement, the experiences of people who make the crossing and what drives them.
5 Reasons We Don’t Need Detention Centres
Detention centres seem inevitable. In reality, they are an invention of an inhumane immigration system. Here's five reasons we don't need them.
Laverstoke Court: Where Is the Anti-Racist Response to Derby’s New Asylum Accommodation Centre?
Racist backlash from white residents, outsourcing, the ‘dispersal’ regime and the failures of liberal refugee rights groups have all converged around the opening of a new 'initial accommodation' centre for asylum seekers. Connor Woodman reports from the East Midlands.
On Migration and the State: Lea Ypi
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Lea Ypi, professor in political theory at the LSE to discuss ways of thinking about migration, what it tells us about the state and the possibility of an emancipatory cosmopolitanism.
The Stansted 15 Follow a Long Tradition of Direct Action in the UK – But They Also Go Beyond It
On Monday 15 people will face trial on terror-related charges for blockading a deportation charter flight last year. Ewa Jasiewicz reflects on the history of radical direct action-orientated solidarity in the UK and how this action was the first of its kind.
With University Staff Forced to Act like Border Guards, Striking Lecturers Must Show Solidarity with Yarl’s Wood
UCU picketers must act in solidarity with hunger strikers in Yarl's Wood because their struggles are intrinsically linked. The inhumane border control system that makes international students fear failing to meet their visa requirements and puts the unwanted duty of immigration policing on to university staff, also creates detention centres.
Solidarity With the Yarl’s Wood Hunger Strikers
Women in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre have now been on hunger strike for nearly two weeks. Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott expresses her solidarity with their fight for adequate healthcare provision, for improved legal access and an end to indefinite detention.
No More Deaths at Sea
On the sixth of February 2014, the Guardia Civil fired rubber bullets at African migrants trying to swim into the Spanish-controlled Moroccan city of Ceuta. At least 14 deaths were recorded. Four years later campaigners marched against the callous disregard for life at Europe’s borders. A Film by Gosia Juszczak & Darío Unai Cristóbal Pulido
Surround Yarl’s Wood: We Must Keep On Demanding an End to Immigration Detention
We went to the 12th surround Yarl's Wood demonstration outside the immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire. But despite a recent abuse scandal, an increase in detention deaths, and a charter flight the day before, the turnout was small and the mood different to past protests.
G4S is Using Art by Detainees and Prisoners to Boost Its Public Image
A private security firm that runs some of the worst immigration removal centres and prisons in the country has partnered with an arts charity to put on an exhibition of work by inmates and detainees.
“Target/Tackle”: A Hostile Environment for the Homeless
Three of the UK’s biggest homelessness charities are collaborating with Home Office immigration enforcement teams on the detention and deportation of European rough sleepers.
Unsettling Feminism and the Politics of the Prison Break: Ash Sarkar In Conversation with Alana Lentin
As part of our week-long Women's Strike focus, Novara Media Senior Editor Ash Sarkar interviews political sociologist and social theorist Alana Lentin about racialised exclusions from femininity and strategies for unsettling the existing social order.
Charter Flight to Jamaica Threatens Mass Removal of Migrants
On Wednesday March 8th, a charter flight is due to uproot migrants from their lives in the UK, and fly them to a country that some will never have seen as adults.
Boats, Borders, Brutality: Australia’s Refugee Policy
Last week’s Muslim ban provoked outrage across the globe. But with the mandatory detention of asylum seekers in offshore camps and forced ‘boat turnbacks’, Australia’s border regime is arguably even worse than Trump’s.
Immigration Detention & Deportation: A View From Jamaica
Indefinite detention and sudden deportation are staples of policing UK borders. Luke de Noronha talks to Jamaican deportees who have been through this system, to find out more about life at the sharp end of UK immigration law.
Contesting Detention: A #ShutDownYarlsWood Photo Essay
A recent Movement for Justice protest at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre was the largest yet, attended by an estimated 1000 people. This photo essay explores the voices of those inside and outside the detention centre as pressure builds to shut it down.