Posts Tagged ‘immigration’
Hackney Migrant Centre founding member Wendy Pettifer passes away aged 72
Pettifer, a housing lawyer and ‘fierce radical social justice warrior’, died following a long illness
Read MoreMayor hopes Hackney will become Borough of Sanctuary ‘within a year’
Q&A session sees Mayor Caroline Woodley acknowledge that many residents “feel left behind”
Read MoreHackney Council votes to lobby government over ‘inhumane’ hostile environment
Town Hall passes motion urging Home Secretary to drop ‘destructive’ measures in rare show of cross-party consensus
Read MoreChild Migrant Voices in Modern Britain, Eithne Nightingale, book review: ‘Unique perspectives on how we live’
Nightingale’s sensitive collection of people’s stories is ‘remarkable for its sheer diversity’
Read MoreHackney brewery joins forces with refugee women to condemn government’s illegal migration bill
Five Points and Women for Refugee Women release craft beer to inspire opposition to Whitehall’s plans
Read MoreDelivery couriers stage rousing protest against ‘excessive policing’ in Hackney
Crowds took to the streets earlier in the month when police attempted to arrest a driver in Dalston
Read More‘Violent disorder’ at Dalston protest: Met’s ‘disproportionate and inflammatory approach’ raises concerns over policing – again
Operation to clamp down on street robberies involving scooters escalated into ‘violent scenes’
Read MoreThe Roles We Play, Sabba Khan, book review: ‘Laden with paradox and rich in nuance’
This genre-defying volume by an East London architect is a ‘meditation on the collective trauma of immigration’
Read MoreHackney community group drafted in by City Hall to help fleeing Hongkongers
Estimates suggest 300,000 could arrive in Britain in the coming years to escape China’s crackdown on free speech
Read MoreMigrants’ rights groups welcome departure of Home Office staff from Town Hall
Embedded immigration officer, whose presence was criticised for acting as a deterrent to people seeking council help, deemed surplus to requirements
Read MoreTown Hall calls for ‘no recourse to public funds’ immigration condition to be scrapped as it launches £100k fund
Mayor and cabinet members accuse government of ‘plunging families into unexpected financial crisis’ through the policy
Read MoreElli Free: Will we ever learn?
The director of Room to Heal, a local charity supporting refugees and asylum seekers, on Windrush, immigration detention, and opportunities for ‘fundamental change’ post-lockdown
Read MoreLeader – Clipped wings
The Home Office could learn from Hackney’s handling of Windrush – now, after a very public snub, we’ll see if it really has the willing
Read MoreComic – Don’t waste your love…
Artist Francisco de la Mora on the unromantic hypocrisy surrounding immigration
Read MoreEvros: Crossing the River, Arcola Theatre, review: ‘The horrors of forced displacement’
Seemia Theatre’s poetic tales of involuntary migration moved audience members to tears
Read MoreHackney becomes first council to pass Windrush motion as leading activist urges others to follow suit
Town Hall officially agrees to push the government for a public inquiry into the scandal and oppose criminalisation of the Windrush generation
Read MoreComic – Sueño de migrantes
Our artist Francisco de la Mora gives us his take on the Windrush scandal…
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Read MoreRough sleepers’ charity denies informing on EU nationals to Home Office
Thames Reach slams reports as ‘misleading and factually incorrect’ and says it has not helped detain anyone in Hackney
Read MoreRemoval Men, The Yard Theatre, review: ‘at its best worthy of Joe Orton’
An Immigration Removal Centre is the setting for a new play at the Yard Theatre that explores a ‘crisis of compassion’ in society, through song, dance and caustic-whimsical dialogue
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