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Covid-19 has exacerbated the challenges we face as migrants. Migrant Action remains committed to its mission , more so at this very difficult times. We are here to support migrants, particularly those who may be in vulnerable situations and struggling to meet the competing demands of migration and basic needs.

If you seeking information, guidance and practical assistance or struggling to access legal advice and other services, we would like to help you. If you are facing destitution and other forms of hardship due to Covid-19, we are here to help as much as we can. If we are not able to help directly, we would ensure that you get the help you by working with you and other agencies.

If you would like to share your personal experience of how Covid-19 has impacted you as a migrant, or if you feel you are encountering any form of injustice, please get in touch.

You can contact us by; Telephone, 07787744993 or 01138330991

Email us at :info@migrantaction.org.uk

Office address; Old Bridge Street Church
Bridge Street
LS2 7QZ
Leeds

Drop-ins: Our drop-ins in Leeds and Barnsley are now temporarily closed but we are providing support remotely. However, we can arrange face-face appointments where necessary maintaining social distancing guidance.

You can also use the contact form below, will we get back in touch as soon as possible.

Opening times

Fridays 9.00- 5pm

Saturdays AM (appointment only and outreach)

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 agencies

Service provision for non-asylum seekers is undefined and limited. In Leeds, migrants seeking information, guidance, advice, advocacy and integration support struggle to find where to go to for help. Many vulnerable migrants are confined to the ‘edges’ of society and face daily, the real risk of exploitation, destitution, child poverty, detention, forced removal and deportations without access to justice. Vulnerable migrants with entrenched complex needs encounter restricted access to service provision which has far reaching implications for their health and well being. Migrant Action is set up in response to this gap in service provision working with other vulnerable migrants who are not asylum seekers.

By delivering early and proactive interventions, we aim to reduce vulnerability across categories of migrants and navigate positive pathways to integration. Through the support we offer, we combat and help to reduce the effects of the government’s increasingly ‘hostile’ policies on the people subject to these policies. Working in partnership with other agencies, we ensure positive choices and pathways for migrants, better access to justice, reduce vulnerability and exploitation, increase integration and contribute to wider system and social change.

Overall, Migrant Action is working to help create an environment whereby migrants feel welcome, equal and able to thrive. Although only established 3 years ago, our work as a case-work and advocacy organisation ensures that we are at the cutting edge of efforts to mitigate directly and combat in more long-lasting ways the harmful impacts of immigration policy. In doing so, our work by necessity cuts across, for example, issues relating to employment protections, social and racial justice, welfare support, access to legal justice, criminalisation and healthcare policies.

How do we do this?

We adopt an early intervention, prevention and proactive in our work with migrants.

Provide a welcoming and safe space
Provide information and guidance to help migrants make informed choices
Help migrants to navigate and access good legal/immigration services
Provide advocacy support and facilitate access to mainstream services
Support integration- help migrants navigate community and social networks, training, volunteering, employment and other pathways for social integration
Activism- Working with other agencies to advocate and influence policy and social change

Who do we work with

Vulnerable migrants (victims of trafficking & modern slavery, People on temporary visas, unaccompanied minors, visa over stayers, undocumented/irregular migrants, people with insecure immigration status and anyone who is unsure of their immigration status
New migrants ( EU and Non-EU migrants)