EU Settled Status: Partnership working in Doncaster

3rd October 2019 by ficheb

After many months of mobilisation and community engagement, Migrant Action, The Junction Cafe, Hexthorpe Primary School and The Youth Association are delighted to be working together to raise awareness and provide practical support for vulnerable migrants in Doncaster to apply for the EU Settlement Scheme.

This collaborative and coordinated approach would ensure efficiency and effective support as well as enhance access and choice for EU citizens wishing to regularise their stay in the UK when the UK leave the EU.

The organisations/locations in Doncaster where EU citizens will be able to receive information, guidance and support would be; The Junction on Wednesday and Thursday 1-4pm and Hexthorpe Primary School Monday and Tuesdays. Migrant Action will assist with complex cases by facilitating referrals of complex cases to relevant specialist agencies and providing advocacy support.

Migrant Action and its partners hope to provide support for EU citizens applying for the scheme until March 2020.

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 ..

Migrant Action’s response to ‘The New Plan for Immigration’

On 23 rd March 2021, the UK Government announced sweeping changes to how it will treat people seeking safety in the UK. These changes signal the Government’s firm resolve to pursue even more hostile and inhumane treatment for people forced to flee and seeking sanctuary in the UK.

The ‘New Plan for Immigration’ undermines the sanctity of life and disregards the compassionate treatment of asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants by humanitarian agencies and millions of ordinary people of goodwill. Of grave concern, these changes legitimize state-sanctioned cruelty and signal a disturbing trajectory for the future of migrant rights and justice and the prospects of a fair, just, and harmonious society. The plan risks criminalizing people seeking sanctuary.

The timing and framing of the Government’s consultation on the ‘New Plan for Immigration’ expose the reluctance to genuinely listen and its resolve to pursue the policy- (for more details on the shortcomings of the consultation set out in a public statement by Refugee Action, click the link below).

Migrant Action stands in solidarity with the voices for compassion, equity of rights and justice, and for a fair, just, and humane immigration system. Through our collaborative work, we uphold and value the sanctity and dignity of human lives threatened increasingly by protracted conflicts and complex political emergencies as well, structural violence exemplified in part, by the Government’s ‘new plan for immigration.

For more responses to the ‘New Plan for Immigration’, see links below

How Quakers can respond to the Government’s New Plan for Immigration ‘consultation’ *** ends 6 May 2021

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10MKdFDt1IHFYNDI5Poge0BUIIrLKpeqLmQCMogS75lE/edit

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrpXrE5JrHwAuKfiIt_y5NTYrLTAPZobhDriI87PMoevK6DQ/viewform?gxids=7628

Opposing this government’s new plan for immigration

Over 70 leaders working with refugee women come together to highlight to the Home Secretary that her new plan for immigration will harm women

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/priti-patel-immigration-plans-women-refugees-b1840281.html