ASIRT has recently begun working with ‘Tina’, the intelligent and formidable single mother of ‘Brendan’, who is 13. Brendan is British. He acquired his citizenship from his father, Tina’s ex-partner, who has passed away. Tina, however, is not British. Because of this, she is required by the Home Office to… Read More
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Justice For Sale
Today’s the day of the Birmingham Legal Walk, and a team from ASIRT will be joining hundreds of other walkers to raise funds for justice. As recent events, including the Windrush scandal, have demonstrated, the UK’s immigration system is broken. Lives are being wasted and put on hold as… Read More
When Every Child Doesn’t Matter
In a week in which it has been reported both that UNICEF has determined the UK to have the worst record in the European Union for child hunger, and that children living in poverty are routinely being denied access to free school meals because of their parents’ immigration statuses, we… Read More
ASIRT is recruiting! (closing date 27/04/2018)
Manager, ASIRT (Asylum Support and Immigration Resource Team) ASIRT is seeking to appoint an experienced and dynamic manager with the ability to develop and deliver high quality services for vulnerable clients. This is an exciting, creative and challenging role for someone with significant management experience and a strong commitment to… Read More
‘Tell Me How It Ends’
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
Access to justice: a right, not a privilege.
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
Manager job opportunity at ASIRT!
Manager, ASIRT (Asylum Support and Immigration Resource Team) ASIRT is seeking to appoint an experienced and dynamic manager with the ability to develop and deliver high quality services for vulnerable clients. This is an exciting, creative and challenging role for someone with significant management experience and a strong commitment to… Read More
ASIRT receives new £72,206 funding boost from Lloyds Bank Foundation to support the West Midland’s vulnerable migrants
ASIRT is delighted to have been awarded a grant of £72,206 over the next three years from Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales, to help strengthen our support for asylum seekers and undocumented migrants across the West Midlands. The funding will allow ASIRT to recruit a part-time Manager (3… Read More
When destitution is for life, not just for Christmas.
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
Audits, injustices and ‘uncomfortable truths’.
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
