No Small Victories: Community Tales of Resistance

• Marcela Navarrete

  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]’d love to hear from you!Afghanistan: judge hunted by Taliban wins court case against UK governmentJoint briefing – securing access to justice: the need for legal aid in immigrationKeir Starmer’s Reform-lite strategy reaches breaking pointLights, 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 resolvedThe impact of forced family separation on a childThe 3 Million – EU citizens’ issuesInside the Home Office spin roomNew anti-refugee bill before parliamentPeople smugglers aren’t terrorists and ‘smashing the gangs’ won’t work

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• Ghassan Ghaben

  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]’d love to hear from you!LinksReviving Gaza: water aid ‘24Reviving Gaza Instagram pageReviving Gaza Just Giving pageWrite to your MP: Gaza family schemeGaza Families Reunited Instagram pageGaza Families Reunited X pageWill my family still be alive when I wake up?Justice, freedom and international law: a new policy framework for the UK government on PalestineRAMFEL new report on the UK’s broken family reunion systemThe BBC’s Civil War Over Gaza – Owen JonesGaza: 64,000 deaths due to violence between October 2023 and June 2024, analysis suggestsTraumatic Injury Mortality in the Gaza Strip from October 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024: a capture-recapture analysisCaabu Palestine resources100 Years Since Balfour 

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• Marissa Begonia

  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]’d love to hear from you!LinksMarissa 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 WorkersChannel 4 News report: The domestic slaves rescued from London’s richest streetsVisa system forces care workers to stay silent on rape and abuseUK’s richest family convicted of exploiting servantsThe NRM: no substitute for workers’ rightsKalayaan: The National Referral Mechanism – near breaking pointImmigration crackdown sees British modern slavery victims imprisonedUnite the Union: United Migrant Workers Education ProgrammeCovid-19 music fundraiser for domestic workers

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• Vincent Okosodo

  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]’d love to hear from you!LinksHome 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

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• Nanou Thassinda

  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]’d love to hear from you!Campaigns, Resources and ContextMigrants Organise campaignsImmigration reporting: Home Office refuses to suspend reporting during far-rightmobilisations#Homes4All campaignJCWI Access to Justice toolkitRoom to HealLegal AidOver half the people seeking asylum are now unable to access a legal aid lawyerGovernment faces legal action over legal aid crisisThe Democratic Republic of CongoConflict in the Democratic Republic of CongoHuman Rights Watch report: Democratic Republic of CongoFurther information about Nanou’s father, H. Thassinda Uba Thassindahttps://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3339591g https://www.overdrive.com/media/10859687/zaire-les-princes-de-linvisible

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