2019
Further interim interdicts granted against Serco evictions
Scottish housing News – 16 July 2019
Emergency appeal launched as Serco restarts asylum seeker evictions
Inside Housing – 13 June 2019
Concern for Glasgow asylum seekers as Serco sends eviction letters
Evening times – 2 May 2019
Calls for landlords to use non-legal measures to prevent Serco asylum …
CommonSpace – 15 April 2019
Campaigners raise fears over fresh Glasgow asylum seeker evictions …
HeraldScotland -12 Apr 2019
4 Ways Christians Can Help Refugees
Christianheadlines.com (blog) -10 Apr 2019
Leading human rights campaigner to represent blind international …
The Courier -21 Mar 2019
Campaigners and politicians rally to defend Dundee student at risk of …
CommonSpace -19 Mar 2019
Talat Ahmed: Views on Israel should not be the dividing line in …
CommonSpace -14 Mar 2019
Caring professor honoured for services to city asylum seekers
Evening Times -11 Mar 2019
Italian gran who moved to UK in 1960 must prove ‘right to stay’ over …
Mirror.co.uk -3 Mar 2019
Serco loses government’s asylum accommodation contract in Scotland
Scottish Housing News -9 Jan 2019
2018
Brave Hearts: Scotland’s heroes of 2018
HeraldScotland -29 Dec 2018
WATCH: The people who gave their spare rooms to Scotland’s asylum …
The Sunday Post -23 Dec 2018
Mohammad Abu Sammour: Funeral for murdered Airdrie dad-of-four …
Evening Times -6 Dec 2018
Heartbreaking appeal from wife of Airdrie murder victim as funeral …
Glasgow Live -6 Dec 2018
Family joy as ‘Scotland’s child’ Sudais Asif becomes UK citizen after …
Scottish Daily Record -18 Nov 2018
Orphan injured in Pakistan gas explosion officially becomes citizen of …
Evening Times -18 Nov 2018
Scottish teen who stabbed Syrian refugee in frenzied attack jailed for …
Sky News -17 Aug 2018
Teenager detained for attempted murder of refugee in Edinburgh
The Guardian -17 Aug 2018
Orphan injured in Pakistan gas explosion starts school in Glasgow
Evening Times -15 Aug 2018
Second Glasgow housing association warns Serco over locks on …
Inside Housing -10 Aug 2018
Serco asylum seeker evictions to be challenged in court
Inside Housing -6 Aug 2018
Serco halts evictions as housing associations offer support
Third Force News -6 Aug 2018
Hundreds attend asylum seeker evictions protest in Glasgow
The Scotsman -4 Aug 2018
Serco to pause plans to evict asylum seekers after Glasgow protests
The Guardian -4 Aug 2018
Hundreds expected at latest mass protest against Serco eviction of …
Glasgow Live -4 Aug 2018
Hundreds expected to join Glasgow protest against eviction of asylum …
The Scotsman -3 Aug 2018
Serco chief blasted for dodging asylum row over bid to turf 300 war …
Scottish Daily Record -2 Aug 2018
Being a “failed asylum seeker” leads directly to homelessness on the …
New Statesman -2 Aug 2018
Scots fuming at multi-millionaire grandson of Winston Churchill after …
Scottish Daily Record -1 Aug 2018
Crusading asylum seeker’s stand against eviction could save 300 …
Scottish Daily Record -31 Jul 2018
Housing associations urge Serco to rethink asylum seeker evictions plan
Inside Housing -31 Jul 2018
Morning Briefing: MPs demand answers on green paper delay
Inside Housing -31 Jul 2018
Sajid Javid urged to halt Serco eviction of Glasgow asylum seekers
The Guardian -30 Jul 2018
Scottish MPs join together to fight the latest shameful ‘hostile …
The Canary -30 Jul 2018
Campaigners to stage protest over eviction of asylum seekers
Glasgow Live -30 Jul 2018
Alison Phipps: We live in cruel times, and courage is made in times …
The National -25 Jul 2018
Edinburgh teen admits racially aggravated stabbing of Syrian
The Guardian -19 Jul 2018
Syrian refugee stabbed in ‘racially-motivated’ attack in Edinburgh
The Independent -7 May 2018
How you can help the Windrush generation
The Guardian -26 Apr 2018
Maryhill Housing announces pair of senior appointments
Scottish Housing News -27 Feb 2018
Positive Action in Housing asking for people to give a room to a refugee
Evening Times -25 Feb 2018
How to help refugees if you feel helpless
Metro -6 Feb 2018
No recourse to public funds: How the UK’s hostile environment policy …
Holyrood -17 Jan 2018
2017
Campaigners gather in Glasgow this morning to support destitute …
Third Force News (blog) -27 Oct 2017
Volunteers wanted to help homeless people with refugee and migrant …
Glasgow Live -5 Oct 2017
Campaigners demand closure of Dungavel migrant detention centre
Independent Catholic News -27 Sep 2017
Charities join forces to tell Holyrood committee that homelessness is …
Scottish Housing News -27 Sep 2017
Campaigners demand inquiry over death at Dungavel detention centre
The Times -20 Sep 2017
Destitute immigrants in UK are threatened with having children removed
The Guardian -13 Jun 2017
Positive Action in Housing welcomes destitution report
Scottish Housing News -26 May 2017
‘It’s like Airbnb for refugees’: UK hosts and their guests – in pictures
The Guardian -8 May 2017
Charities reveal the desperate fight for survival facing asylum seekers …
Third Force News -17 Mar 2017
The crimes that shocked Glasgow in 2016
Glasgow Live -5 Jan 2017
2016
How you can help a homeless person this Christmas
Third Force News -8 Dec 2016
Refugee charity had its busiest year ever in 2016 and warns 2017 will …
Third Force News -25 Nov 2016
Scottish RSLs pledge up to 350 homes for vulnerable Syrian families
Scottish Housing News -25 Nov 2016
Scots have donated £2500 to a disabled refugee allegedly attacked in …
Third Force News -15 Nov 2016
Plan for immigration removal centre near Glasgow airport rejected
The Guardian -8 Nov 2016
Dungavel detention centre closure: Campaigners welcome end of …
The Independent -8 Sep 2016
Dungavel immigration detention centre to close
BBC News -8 Sep 2016
Underclass of the homeless: Scots volunteers give shelter to …
Scottish Daily Record -9 Apr 2016
2015
We are giving a Syrian refugee a home this Christmas
The Independent -23 Dec 2015
Tributes follow death of Aberdeenshire Council head of housing …
Scottish Housing News -18 Dec 2015
Here’s how you can offer your spare room to a refugee
Metro -3 Dec 2015
First Syrian refugees arrive in Glasgow to low-key welcome
The Guardian -17 Nov 2015
As police report spike in hate attacks, is xenophobia on the rise in …
CommonSpace -16 Nov 2015
Charity uses conference to highlight plight of refugees
Glasgow Evening Times -4 Nov 2015
Insight: Operation welcome Syria’s refugees
Scotsman -19 Sep 2015
How do I … offer a room to a refugee?
The Guardian -11 Sep 2015
Opening my home to refugees has been humbling and eye-opening
The Guardian -8 Sep 2015
Refugee crisis: How should homeowners go about helping to provide …
The Independent -7 Sep 2015
Scottish housing associations to agree practical response to refugee …
Scottish Housing News -7 Sep 2015
Helping refugees in Europe: your questions answered
Red Cross Blogs (blog) -4 Sep 2015
The Real Stories of Migrant Britain: Clive fled from Zimbabwe – now it …
The Independent -2 Jul 2015
Exclusive: Home Office condemned after “inhumane” dawn raid on …
CommonSpace -29 May 2015
2014
Burned baby Mohammad Sudais resuscitated before surgery
BBC News -27 Feb 2014
Burned baby Mohammad Sudais arrives in Scotland
BBC News -20 Feb 2014
Pakistan gas explosion baby to come to Scotland
BBC News -11 Feb 2014
2013
SNP pledge: we’ll let asylum seekers work in Scotland
Herald Scotland -7 Dec 2013
Scottish politicians attack ‘going home’ immigration posters as ‘shameful’
The Independent -30 Aug 2013
UK Border Agency posters branded ‘racist’
BBC News -30 Aug 2013
2012
Anger over no inquiry into Red Road asylum family deaths
BBC News -9 Aug 2012
Red Road suicide: Russian family had warned of plan to kill themselves
Scotsman -5 Apr 2012
2011
Scotland’s ‘tartan with a turban’ culture can teach the English how to …
Scotsman -6 Mar 2011
2010
Asylum seekers ‘guilty until proven innocent’
BBC News -19 May 2010
Child detention to end at Dungavel removal centre
BBC News -18 May 2010
I stowed away in a ship from Sudan to come here. But it’s like a prison
Independent -12 Mar 2010
Russian family ‘jumped to deaths’ from Glasgow flats
BBC News -8 Mar 2010
2009
BBC News – Asylum mother and child released from custody
BBC News-18 Dec 2009
2008
Sleepout focus on asylum plight
BBC News-11 June 2008
Eviction ‘pressure’ on asylum seekers
The Guardian – 3 Feb 2008
2007
UK: Kurdish girl, 14, released from detention after health concerns
“We welcome and celebrate Meltem’s release.” – 24 November 2007
Something remarkable | Opinion |
The Guardian – !2 April 2007
2006
Tears, anger, threatened suicide – another dawn raid
The Scotsman – 5 October 2006
2005
Exchange over asylum row tactics
BBC NEWS | 27 November 2005
Dawn raid furore family deported
BBC NEWS | 29 September 2005
2004
Britain: anti-asylum measures lead to suicides and self-harm
WSWS – 28 Sept 2004
BBC NEWS | 16 September 2004
Asylum seekers on hunger strike
BBC News-28 Aug 2004
Another asylum seeker takes own life
Institute of Race Relations – 19 May 2004
2003
Glasgow’s crying shame | Politics | The Guardian
The guardian – 5 Oct 2003
BBC News -5 Sept 2003
2002
BBC News – 13 May, 2002
14 April 2002
Dungavel Detention Centre – Visitors Abused and Refused
21 Mar 2002
2001
Chhokar family’s criticism borne out by leaks
The Herald – 24 October 2001
Glasgow changes policy on asylum seekers
Community Care – 7 aug 2001
Scots under fire for ‘scratching surface’ with anti-racism plans
The guardian – Wed 14 Feb 2001