Lucy speaks to Marcela Navarrete, an immigration solicitor and partner at Wilsons Solicitors in Tottenham about immigration and asylum laws in the UK.

Follow the links below to learn more about these issues, legal frameworks and the corrosive effects of the UK's hostile environment policies have on our communities. 

If you are facing removal or deportation, you can find advice here.

Please note this episode was recorded before the government’s changes on to the nationality 'good character' requirement which will refuse citizenship to anyone arriving in the UK 'illegally,' regardless of how long ago this occurred. 

To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Instagram and Bluesky  @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at [email protected]
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Afghanistan: judge hunted by Taliban wins court case against UK government

Joint briefing – securing access to justice: the need for legal aid in immigration

Keir Starmer’s Reform-lite strategy reaches breaking point

Lights, camera, and a new low: why is the government making Deportation TV

‘Workers are being employed as indentured labour’

At least one in ten children in care is non-British and faces an uncertain future unless immigration status is resolved

The impact of forced family separation on a child

The 3 Million – EU citizens’ issues

Inside the Home Office spin room

New anti-refugee bill before parliament

People smugglers aren’t terrorists and ‘smashing the gangs’ won’t work

Lucy talks to Ghassan Ghaben, a lawyer and member of the British Palestinian Committee about the Gaza Families Reunited campaign and the mutual aid group, Reviving Gaza. 

Follow the links below to find out about Gaza Families Reunited, Reviving Gaza and other issues discussed in the episode.

To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter or Bluesky @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at [email protected]
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Links

Reviving Gaza: water aid ‘24

Reviving Gaza Instagram page

Reviving Gaza Just Giving page

Write to your MP: Gaza family scheme

Gaza Families Reunited Instagram page

Gaza Families Reunited X page

Will my family still be alive when I wake up?

Justice, freedom and international law: a new policy framework for the UK government on Palestine

RAMFEL new report on the UK’s broken family reunion system

The BBC’s Civil War Over Gaza – Owen Jones

Gaza: 64,000 deaths due to violence between October 2023 and June 2024, analysis suggests

Traumatic Injury Mortality in the Gaza Strip from October 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024: a capture-recapture analysis

Caabu Palestine resources

100 Years Since Balfour

Marissa Begonia, Director of The Voice of Domestic Workers, speaks to Lucy about her life as a domestic worker and her campaign for domestic workers' rights.

Follow the links below to find out more about Marissa's journey and The Voice of Domestic Workers as well as  issues relating to the Overseas Domestic Worker Visa and the National Referral Mechanism (NRM).

To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter or Bluesky @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at [email protected]
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Links

Marissa Begonia: the invisible workforce – my fight for migrant domestic workers in the UK (Being the Story speech)

Hard Graft: work, health and rights (Wellcome Collection)

The Voice of Domestic Workers

Channel 4 News report: The domestic slaves rescued from London’s richest streets

Visa system forces care workers to stay silent on rape and abuse

UK’s richest family convicted of exploiting servants

The NRM: no substitute for workers’ rights

Kalayaan: The National Referral Mechanism – near breaking point

Immigration crackdown sees British modern slavery victims imprisoned

Unite the Union: United Migrant Workers Education Programme

Covid-19 music fundraiser for domestic workers

Lucy talks to Vincent Okosodo, an entrepreneur, campaigner and Nigerian migrant about his long and painful journey through the UK's hostile immigration system.

Follow the links below to find out more about the issues and policies mentioned in this podcast, including the mental health cost of current migration policies in the UK, and to learn more about Centaville, a Nigerian social enterprise that Vincent founded.

To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter or Bluesky @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at [email protected]
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Links

Home Office urged to scrap long, expensive and ‘racist’ visa route 

Over 60 NGOs call for urgent changes to immigration legal aid

Stemming the tide: the case for demarketising the legal aid sector 

State violence and distress: the false separation between migrant justice and mental health 

Trauma, mental health and migration 

Centaville

Lucy speaks to Nanou Thassinda, a community activist with Migrants Organise, about her campaign work and her experience of migrating to the UK from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Follow the links below to find out more about Migrants Organise, the campaigns mentioned in this podcast and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at [email protected]
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Campaigns, Resources and Context

Migrants Organise campaigns

Immigration reporting: Home Office refuses to suspend reporting during far-right
mobilisations

#Homes4All campaign

JCWI Access to Justice toolkit

Room to Heal

Legal Aid

Over half the people seeking asylum are now unable to access a legal aid lawyer

Government faces legal action over legal aid crisis

The Democratic Republic of Congo

Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Human Rights Watch report: Democratic Republic of Congo

Further information about Nanou’s father, H. Thassinda Uba Thassinda

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3339591g

https://www.overdrive.com/media/10859687/zaire-les-princes-de-linvisible

We're back! No Small Victories returns from the summer break with a very special episode about a hotel for asylum seekers in Haringey and its closure. We meet and hear from those who lived and worked in the hotel, as well as the community who campaigned to support its residents. 

Follow the links below to find out more about the events and organisations mentioned in this podcast .

To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on twitter/X @HaringeyWelcome. Please visit
Prevent Refugee Homelessness in Haringey Crowdfunder to find out more about our work with the Museum of Homelessness and donate if you can. You can also drop us an email at [email protected]
We’d love to hear from you!

Links:

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Yvette Cooper’s Post-Rwanda Immigration Plans

The asylum king: how one man has made millions from Britain’s broken immigration system

e-visa problems

UK Immigration Strategy Increases risk of exploitation say charities

‘We sacrificed everything we had’: seasonal workers left without jobs after Home Office decision

Haringey Migrant Justice Coalition letter to Clearsprings

Haringey Migrant Justice Coalition statement on the hotel closure

Video of unannounced insecticide spraying at the hotel

Haringey Migrant Support Centre

Haringey Community Action Network

A special message to No Small Victories Podcast listeners

Haringey Welcome Statement on Violence Across the UK
https://haringeywelcome.org/2024/08/05/haringey-welcome-statement-on-riots/

To learn more about No Small Victories and Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/  or follow us on Twitter @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at [email protected]

Lucy talks to Martin Newell, a Catholic Priest and social activist about his work for migrant justice in Haringey for the London Catholic Worker, including his involvement in  Giuseppe Conlon House, a home for destitute migrants in North London. 

Follow the links below to find out more about the London Catholic Worker and Giuseppe Conlon House as well as the issues and organisations mentioned in this podcast.

To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at [email protected]
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 Martin Newell – Wikipedia

London Catholic Worker

Giuseppe Conlon House 

The Passionists

Legacy Programme (cancelled in 2012)

No Recourse to Public Funds 

The Windrush Scandal

Right to Rent Check

What are the 10- and 20-year rules on long residence?

Campaign Against the Arms Trade

Lucy talks to ‘Ahmed’, an asylum seeker from Afghanistan who worked for NATO until 2021. He explains why he fled his country and what sustains him in his quest for safety as he navigates the UK’s cruel, hostile environment policies.

Follow the links below to find out more about Afghanistan and the challenges Afghan refugees face in finding safety in the UK today .

To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at [email protected]
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Afghanistan

Instability in Afghanistan, Council of Foreign Relations
Amnesty International, Afghanistan Report
UNHCR: Afghanistan Crisis
Channel 4 documentary series: Evacuation


Refugees from Afghanistan 

Afghanistan refugees at risk of deportation to Rwanda
A tale of two protection systems: Afghan and Ukranian Refugees
Lead by Donkeys ‘Every single refugee has a story’
Secret pause on Afghan resettlement schemes
From Our Own Correspondent (BBC): Afghan migrants in limbo in Pakistan

Useful Resources

Right to Remain Toolkit
Migrants Organise: We Keep Each Other Safe! Rwanda Resources and Actions

Lucy talks to Tonya Mavri about her work with children and families for Caris Haringey and her memories of growing up in Tottenham in the 1980s and 1990s. 

 Please visit Caris Haringey to find out more and consider donating here.

Follow the links below to find out more about the issues and organisations mentioned in this podcast .

To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at [email protected]
We’d love to hear from you!

Historic England – Racism and Resistance

https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/another-england/a-brief-history/racism-and-resistance/

Citizens Advice – No Recourse to Public Funds

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/our-work/our-campaigns/policy-campaigns/no-recourse-to-public-funds/

Locked Out of a Livelihood – The Case for Reforming “No Recourse to Public Funds”

https://www.ippr.org/articles/locked-out-of-a-livelihood

Homes4all campaign

Homes4all