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‘Tell Me How It Ends’

18th April 2018 By Dave

I’ve recently read Valeria Luiselli’s excellent ‘Tell Me How It Ends’, an account of the author’s experience of working as a volunteer interpreter for migrant children at risk of deportation from Trump’s America. In one passage, Luiselli recounts a conversation with her young daughter about her work, in which she… Read More

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Access to justice: a right, not a privilege.

7th March 2018 By Dave

March has arrived and with it, finally, the promise of longer, warmer days. But if the winter seems to have been interminably long for those of us with secure immigration status, access to a regular income, and safe, warm homes, I’m struggling to imagine how it might have been experienced… Read More

Filed Under: Case Studies, Fund Raising, Immigration Tagged With: citizenship, funding, home office, legal aid

When destitution is for life, not just for Christmas.

2nd December 2017 By Dave

Almost unbelievably, we’ve almost reached the end of another year, one in which the impacts of the hostile environment is seeking to create for some of the most vulnerable people in the UK have become ever more entrenched. Over the past couple of weeks, by way of illustation we’ve been… Read More

Filed Under: Case Studies, Fund Raising, Immigration Tagged With: children, Christmas, health-care, home office, non-British

Audits, injustices and ‘uncomfortable truths’.

11th October 2017 By Dave

Just this week, the Government has published an audit on racial and social inequality, highlighting severe and stark disparities in attainment and opportunity among different ethnic groups in the UK. Theresa May, the Prime Minister, has said that: “People who have lived with discrimination don’t need a government audit to… Read More

Filed Under: Government, Homeless, Immigration, Uncategorised Tagged With: children, discrimination, home office, legal rights, poverty

Support ASIRT’s Paddington Children’s Project with Tesco’s ‘Bags of Help’.

29th September 2017 By Dave

Many thanks to Tesco Supermarkets for entering ASIRT into the ‘Bags of Help’ initiative. To help us win a grant of up to four thousand pounds, which will go directly to support children in the West Midlands disadvantaged because of precarious immigration statuses, visit one of the participating branches and… Read More

Filed Under: Fund Raising, Immigration Tagged With: children

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