Migrant Action

Empowerment Advocacy Justice

  • Home
  • Who We Are
    • Vision
    • Our core values
  • What We Do
    • Aims and Objectives
    • The Way We Work
    • How We Can Help
    • Campaigning
  • Get Involved
  • Resources
    • Policies
    • Migration Updates
    • Reports and Case Studies
  • Structural Change
  • Our Team…
  • Contact

Covid-19 relief: ‘No Child Left Behind’

3rd July 2020 by ficheb

Covid-19 has revealed the staggering inequality in our society reflected. According to research carried out by Sky news, during the lockdown, 43% of children from disadvantaged backgrounds study for 1 hour a day compared to 14% from more affluent backgrounds and 4% of children attending private schools.

Nearly two in three (64%) of secondary pupils in state schools from the richest households are offered some form of active help, compared with 47% from the poorest fifth of families, the study suggests. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-52701850

82% of secondary school pupils attending private school are offered active help, with 79% being provided with online classes.  https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/BN288-Learning-during-the-lockdown-1.pdf

The most deprived communities have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic and the government’s lockdown measures including school closures. The experiences and impact of the lockdown will vary largely based on the child’s environment and the opportunities available to them.

While children from ‘better off’ backgrounds have access to online learning resources, equipment, school and parental support as well as a convenient learning environment, those who are poor and less well off lack these ‘privileges’ therefore disadvantaged in this ‘forced’ home learning environment. Covid-19 has exacerbated an entrenched tier education system whereby children from better-off families are racing faster to the top while those from poorer backgrounds are ‘left behind’ as they race to the bottom.

Through these interventions, Migrant Action is helping to prevent and transform inequalities and promoting social justice.

Transforming Inequalities

  • Migrant Action has supported some migrant families with IT equipment to help children access vital online learning resources including doing school home work.
  • Children has also received some study material (books, toys and pencils) to assist learning and development during lockdown
  • Migrant Action student volunteers have facilitated virtual interactive learning with children and their parents.  These sessions also provide opportunities for informal conversations which help to reduce isolation and loneliness especially for new arrivals in Leeds who could feel ‘cut-off’ from society. 
  • Our online family learning support provides a great opportunity for family bonding during these challenging times but also give the volunteers the opportunity to directly engage with migrants and share experiences. As such, the scheme has a broader outcome of mediating social and cultural integration.

Service-user feedback

  • “you have made her day, she is so pleased she doesn’t have to share my laptop with me” — Anonymous
  • “Thanks Migrant Action for the books, the kids are very happy today and very busy now [with the books]” — Anonymous

Filed Under: frontpage, Our Activities, Uncategorized Tagged With: covid-19, education, learning support, study materials

Migrant Action: Helping vulnerable EU migrants applying for Settled Status

8th November 2019 by ficheb

As the uncertainty and anxiety around BREXIT continue to linger on, Migrant Action in collaboration with partners is working to help vulnerable migrants. To ensure that EU citizens are not in limbo, we are delivering support to secure the status of all EU citizens living, working and studying in the UK after BREXIT.

What support is available?

Migrant Action run weekly drop-ins where we provide free information, advice and guidance sessions for EU citizens to help them make informed choices. We also run group sessions to help build your confidence to apply for the scheme. Migrant Action will provide practical support to make settled status applications for individuals who are unable make applications independently. As part of the support we offer, we signpost and refer people to services for further support and legal advice if needed.

Where do we provide support?

In Leeds, Migrant Action run a drop-in every Thursday from 4.00- 6.30pm at RETAS, Roundhay Resource Centre, 233-237 Round hay Road, LS8 4HS. For inquiries and appointments Email us at info@migrantaction.org.uk or call 01133731763/07787744993

In Barnsley: Migrant Action run a drop–in working in collaboration with ELSH every Thursday from 10am-12pm at ELSH at 205 Sheffield road, S70 4DE Barnsley.

In Doncaster: Migrant Action is working in collaboration with local partners; The Junktion https://thejunctionhexthorpe.com/ and The Youth Association http://youth-association.org/ to provide similar support for Vulnerable migrants in the Doncaster area.

For more information, advice and guidance regarding the EU Settled Status Scheme contact us at info@migrantaction.org.uk or call 01133731763/07787744993

Filed Under: frontpage, Uncategorized

A CALL TO ACTION!

25th October 2019 by ficheb

Sadly, largely the tone and narratives on migration is becoming increasingly hostile. Government policies and political discourses convey a commitment to pursue with relentless gusto an anti-migration agenda unless it serves its domestic priorities.

The purpose of this torrent of hostile anti-migration policies across Europe is to force migrants into pathways of inhumane and degrading treatment that violates their humanity, human rights and for some their right to life.

What can we do?

Migrant Action is working with partner across the UK and in Europe to mark the 3rd of October as a day of ‘Welcome and Memory’. This campaign commemorates October 3rd when 368 people including children, women and men lost their lives in a shipwreck off the coast of Lampedusa. http://www.snapshotsfromtheborders.eu/

Please support the Snapshots from the Borders campaign for a human rights-based approach to migration and solidarity with migrants.  

The aim is to get 25 000 signatures to push the EU parliament for policy change, and to shift towards a human rights-based approach to migration. Over 10,000 people have signed so far, please help us reach our target, and enable representation for this in the European Parliament.

You can sign the petition here: bit.ly/2LHJ6W6 and forward to your networks.

If you are in Leeds or able to travel to Leeds, We’d also like to invite you to come to our free screenings of 2 Award-winning films, which we are putting on with Leeds Film Festival:

 24th October: To the Four Winds – the story of a ‘heroic’ French people smuggler, who helps migrants to safety. 5-7pm at Leeds University, Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, Michael Sadler Building. Free food and drinks!

30th October: Revenir – a unique insight, which follows the ‘real-life’ journey of a migrant from the Ivory Coast. 6-8pm Belgrave Music Hall. Free drinks for the first 40 people

Let’s work together in solidarity to change policy and make a difference in people’s lives!

Migrant Action Director Fidelis Chebe sharing the campaign on Fever FM

Filed Under: frontpage, Our Activities, Uncategorized

UK Detention

21st December 2018 by ficheb

The facts and closing pathways to detention

UK Detention

Download

Filed Under: Reports and Case Studies, Uncategorized

Urgent action required

22nd April 2016 by ficheb

The are many destitute asylum seekers sleeping rough including women and children.greece-migrants

Filed Under: Uncategorized

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • Next Page »

About Migrant Action

Migrant Action was established in 2016 as an Advocacy and Rights based organisation providing information, guidance, advocacy support and direct practical assistance to ‘vulnerable’ migrants. Migrant Action works with migrants who have fallen through the cracks of the immigration system including (but not restricted to) stateless people, those who have been unable to regularise their status and those on temporary visas. We work to ensure equity of rights and justice for migrants, and although the primary focus of our work is not with asylum seekers and refugees, we do signpost them to appropriate … Read more ..

Recent Posts

‘Welcome to England’: English Language and integration support for migrants

Covid-19: We continue to support and Adapt

Covid-19: Not without food!

‘I won’t be defined by my immigration status’

No children left behind this summer: an update on the ‘No Child Left Behind’ initiative

More Posts from this Category

facebook

facebook

Twitter

My Tweets

Follow Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

Donate

❤   DONATE

Copyright © 2021 · Outreach Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in