Migrants' Rights Network

We’re really pleased to announce we have a place in the #LondonMarathon 2025 on 27th April 2025! Join our team and take on the challenge of running 26.2 miles through central London! By raising money for the Migrants’ Rights Network, you can help us continue our important work in challenging anti-migrant policies and language. Email fundraising@migrantsrights.org.uk or click the link below to find out more! https://buff.ly/3UbUyfk

A deportation flight is scheduled tonight for 10pm. From what we know it will be forcibly removing around 15 people to Nigeria and Ghana. Here are some of their stories: https://buff.ly/4h7dzcK We stand in solidarity with all people facing deportation and call for an end to this racist, inhumane policy. Deportations ruin lives. END DEPORTATIONS NOW. #EndDeportations

🚨 **Urgent call out for legal representation - Deportation Charter flight to Nigeria today**🚨 A deportation charter flight from the UK to Nigeria is scheduled for this evening (Thu 17 October). At least three of the people with removal notices for the flight do not have an have not had any legal representation. If you are able to intervene and challenge this please reach out ASAP so that we can put you in contact! #deportation #legal #immigration

We are Here To Stay: an organising day for disrupting migration systems and narratives ✊🏽 Calling people to join the Migrants’ Rights Network and Ubuntu Women Shelter this Saturday, in Glasgow, to organise and build local resistance to the racist structures that keep our communities oppressed. 🧑🏿🤝🧑🏾 🗓️ Time: Saturday, October 19, 2024, 10:00AM- 5:00PM 📍 Location: Civic House, 26 Civic St , Glasgow, G4 9RH GB Agenda: 9.45-10.15: Doors, registration and coffee 10.15-10.30: Welcome song and poetry reading 10.30-10.45: Craft session 1 (introduction) 10.45-12: 'Why are we here?' workshop 12-12.10: Break 12.10-1.10: Decolonising language- Words Matter workshop 1.10-2.10: Lunch 2.10-3.40: Panel- Decolonising locally, with speakers Ronnie Tagwireyi, Nosheen Khwaja, Layla-Roxanne Hill 3.40-4: Craft session 2 (conclusion) 4-6: Networking ⏰ Doors open at 9.45am. Please arrive on time to be seated for a prompt 10.15am start. 🥙 Free lunch and refreshments will be provided. 🚆 Limited travel subsidies are available on a first come first served basis. ℹ️ This event is for everyone who wants to learn and discuss dismantling systems of oppression. We particularly want migrants, including refugees, Glaswegian activists, and more to join. We will prioritise racialised and migrant, including refugee, attendees. 🎟️ For more information and to book your free ticket: https://buff.ly/3XRFiGO You can also email events@migrantsrights.org.uk for any questions. Looking forward to seeing you there! #DecolonisingMigration #Migration #Colonialism

Conference season is now over, and despite a leadership election dominating the Conservatives, #immigration has remained a central topic across the political spectrum. There has been a troubling consensus on anti-migrant policies and language from Labour and the Conservatives, both having moved increasingly to the right on migrants’ rights in recent years. Below are our main takeaways. Read more: https://buff.ly/403u0k7

We are Here To Stay: an organising day for disrupting migration systems and narratives ✊🏽 Calling people to join the Migrants’ Rights Network and Ubuntu Women Shelter this Saturday, in Glasgow, to organise and build local resistance to the racist structures that keep our communities oppressed. 🧑🏿🤝🧑🏾 🗓️ Time: Saturday, October 19, 2024, 10:00AM- 5:00PM 📍 Location: Civic House, 26 Civic St , Glasgow, G4 9RH GB What to expect: 💭 Reflective Discussions: Explore critical topics like racist and anti-migrant language, colonialism and systemic racism. ✍🏾 Personal Histories: Share and learn from our personal experiences of migration and colonisation. Together, we'll reflect on how these histories shape our present and our future. 🎤 Community Resistance: Come and hear poems of resistance from Ubuntu Women Shelter. Learn and discuss how people are building local resistance to racist laws and structures. 🌟 Network & Connect: Meet like-minded individuals, and activists who want to dismantle racist structures and systems locally. ⏰ Doors open at 9.45am. Please arrive on time to be seated for a prompt 10am start, which will be the welcome performance by Ubuntu Women Shelter. 🥙 Free lunch and refreshments will be provided. 🚆 Limited travel subsidies are available on a first come first served basis. ℹ️ This event is for everyone who wants to learn and discuss dismantling systems of oppression. We particularly want migrants, including refugees, Glaswegian activists, and more to join. We will prioritise racialised and migrant, including refugee, attendees. 🎟️ For more information and to book your free ticket: https://buff.ly/3XRFiGO You can also email events@migrantsrights.org.uk for any questions. Looking forward to seeing you there! #DecolonisingMigration #Migration #Colonialism

Despite a long violent history of #colonisation in the #Congo, the perpetrators of this violent history often try to sanitise it, arguing that Belgium even benefitted the Congo, or that #colonialism was a “good thing” for the Congolese people. With the theme of this year’s #BlackHistoryMonth being "Reclaiming Narratives", Migrants’ Rights Network and Friends Of The Congo have worked together for #CongoWeek to debunk the erasure of colonial history. We must understand #displacement and #migration against a backdrop of European conquest, and its legacies of White supremacy and capitalist domination in the Congo. Read more: https://buff.ly/4dKxR94

Merch store alert 📢 We're pleased to announce our brand new #merch store is finally up and running! Grab unique, custom-designed posters, T-shirts, tote bags and hoodies made from organic cotton and part of a renewable product cycle. Every purchase helps us stand in solidarity with migrants in their fights for rights and justice, not to mention you'll look fabulous in the process 💅 Check out our shiny new store and keep your eyes peeled for updates, new designs and exclusives: https://buff.ly/4eJcHcF

A care worker paid over £12,000 to get a work permit, which involved selling his possessions and taking out a loan. Once in the UK, he blew the whistle on his employer's poor working conditions, resulting in him losing his permission to work. He must now work without permission, and lives under constant threat of deportation. MIGRANTS AT WORK LTD and MRN stand in solidarity with the migrant led #JusticeForSponsoredWorkers campaign, calling for an end to #SponsoredSlavery. Find out more: https://buff.ly/4dnHCu4

We have collaborated with Nisaba Charity for part three of their 'Decolonising' series, to explore what it means to decolonise #migration. #Decolonisation involves putting an end to current forms of #colonialism and #imperialism that displace people from their homes, #reparations, and creating a world where all people are free to move, but also free to stay. Decolonisation also involves undoing the anti-migrant narratives that are based on a colonial understanding of what it means to be "civilised". Finally, decolonisation involves an undoing of borders. Since the inception of the modern nation state, borders have been a colonial invention, designed to manage and control the movement of racialised and colonised people for profit. What a world without borders could look like exists in the realm of imagination, however we can take inspiration from history. We can harness pre-colonial histories of movement, mobility and fluidity as a stepping-stone to envision what a world that serves everybody could look like. Read more: https://buff.ly/3XZHWsQ