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Aims and Objectives

Overall Aims

  • To empower and support migrants particularly those who are most vulnerable, so that they feel safe and confident to navigate the complex migration challenges, maximise opportunities and fulfil their full potential.
  • To promote migrant rights and strengthen social cohesion in Leeds.
  • To challenge and reduce the effects of policies that create a hostile environment for migrants and advocate policies and practice that promote rights, safety, equality and dignity of migrants.
  • Help other organisations/services/groups to enhance understanding of migration issues so as to better meet the needs of migrants.

OBJECTIVES

  •  To help migrants make informed positive choices through the provision of information,
    guidance and support.
  •  Improve access to Justice through signposting and referrals to legal/immigration services and casework support.
  • Provide advocacy support for migrants especially for the most vulnerable to ensure their rights are protected.
  • Facilitate access to mainstream provision including healthcare, employment etc.
  • Reduce the effects of poverty, destitution and social exclusion among vulnerable migrants by support access to provision and humanitarian assistance.
  •  Raise awareness and develop understanding of migration issues so as to build a society where services are knowledgeable and competent in meeting the needs of migrants.

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 ..

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