Way back in July 2014, a migrant family denied recourse to public funds initiated a legal challenge against the London Borough of Newham, which had acknowledged a statutory duty towards the family under section 17 of the Children Act 1989. At that time, Newham was paying this family- consisting of… Read More
Government
‘Cockroaches’. Migrants’ rights and the Midland Legal Walk
By Dave Stamp. As I write this, the polling booths have finally opened for voting following a General Election campaign, in which the subject of immigration has played a central role. With increasing regularity, migrants are portrayed less as human beings with aspirations, hopes and fears, but as a kind… Read More
Health, hysteria and hostile environments
Over the past week, Birmingham’s local press has been commenting on the case of a GP practice manager prosecuted for providing treatment, at a cost, to ‘health tourists’. One of the interesting- and unreported- facts about the case is that the treatment received by the patients in question, who were… Read More
Every Child Matters…?
By Dave Stamp Over the past few months, as the ‘hostile environment’ agenda has become ever further entrenched, we have become ever more astonished by statutory agencies’ apparently wilfully disregard for the well-being of the children of parents subject to immigration control. We are becoming used to seeing the single… Read More
Against Xenophobia, against private landlords as immigration officers
From December 1st 2014, the Home Office will be ‘piloting’ section 20 of the Immigration Act 2014 in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Walsall and Sandwell. Section 20 is concerns itself with residential tenancies, and says that: ‘A person cannot rent a property or room if s/he does not have the right… Read More
