Beyond Windrush: building the movement for migrants’ rights

Beyond Windrush: building the movement for migrants’ rights

Jun28

When: June 28, 2018

6pm-9pm, Thursday 28 June

Malet Suite, Student Central
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HY

Join activists, grassroots groups and migrant campaigners to learn more about what’s wrong with our immigration system and explore practical ways of taking action.

With Docs Not Cops, Migrants Organise, Schools Against Borders for Children, Let Us Learn, Liberty, Global Justice Now and more.

The government’s shameful treatment of the ‘Windrush generation’ has turned the spotlight onto its inhumane ‘hostile environment’ policy. The hostile environment has embedded immigration controls within essential public services we can’t live without, denying people basic human rights and turning teachers, doctors, landlords, bank clerks and others into border guards against their will.

Join us to explore the issues with expert campaigners and those directly affected by the issues, and then meet with campaigning groups who are doing vital work – find ways to get involved or develop skills for action.

Part 1: What is the hostile environment?

A participatory discussion led by:

  • Gracie Mae Bradley, Advocacy and Policy Officer at Liberty and co-founder of Schools Against Borders for Children

  • Dami Makinde from Let Us Learn – young migrant campaigners fighting back against immigration rules that block their access to higher education

  • + More tbc

Part 2: Taking action for migrants’ rights

The second part of the evening will feature a set of break-out sessions with campaigning groups. Learn from the work they’re doing and find ways to get involved. Including:

  • Docs Not Cops on how to fight back against racist immigration checks and upfront charging in the NHS

  • Schools Against Borders for Children on how to win – lessons from a successful campaign against data collection in schools

  • Migrants Organise on organising against the hostile environment through trade unions and faith institutions

  • Generation Rent and London Renters Union on how to keep borders out of the housing system

  • Global Justice Now on how to make sure your MP isn’t reporting migrants to the Home Office for immigration enforcement

  • Walk and Talk Migrant Tours on combating the social isolation of the hostile environment through welcome tours of London

  • Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants