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10 May 2018
Day 9: A better day for Syrian Refugee, Shabaz
Shabaz is eating a little today from his hospital bed. His father, Sivan, remains by his side 24/7. Friends and family visit. However, Shabaz is displaying high levels of anxiety, flashbacks and tearfulness. His father says each times he wakes he screams out in fear and begins crying. The…
2 May 2018
Another family prevented from rebuilding their lives by the Hostile Environment
Priscilla O is a Glasgow care home worker, a mother of two, and another casualty of the UK’s hostile environment. Her case shows how immigration policy turns employers into border guards and pushes working families towards destitution through delay, fear, and bureaucratic indifference.
16 March 2018
STATEMENT AHEAD OF STAND TOGETHER AGAINST RACISM MARCH – GLASGOW
“As we go about our day to day work, the people we try to help rebuild their lives speak of feeling constant fear from government policy and on the streets and in peoples faces. And equally, I know I fear for my own family, my community and wider society.…
20 September 2017
Dungavel apparently set to close
Dungavel, the immigration detention centre near Strathaven, is set to close after operating since 2001. The Home Office says it will be replaced by a short term holding unit near Glasgow Airport, with ministers claiming people will be held for less than a week and that removals will happen with less delay.
19 September 2017
Press Statement regarding Chinese man who died at Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre
In response to the news that a Chinese man was found dead yesterday in Dungavel, Robina Qureshi, Director of refugee and migrant homelessness charity, Positive Action in Housing, said: “The fact that we know nothing more than that a Chinese man died is typical media crisis management on the…
19 September 2017
Scotland’s child … Mohammad Sudais
THE call that would change the lives of Mohammad Asif and his family came at 6am on Monday, December 16, 2013. “A relative in Afghanistan phoned to tell me there had been an explosion at my brother’s house in Peshawar, Pakistan,” he explains. “I kept calling the…
25 May 2017
Positive Action in Housing Welcomes Destitution Report
Positive Action in Housing has welcomed Holyrood’s Equality and Human Rights Committee’s report on destitution. The Committee’s report recognises the huge challenges facing people seeking safety here, and states that “destitution is built into the asylum process”. The Scottish Parliament Committee…
28 January 2017
SCOTTISH HOMES FOR UNACCOMPANIED ASYLUM SEEKING REFUGEE YOUNG PEOPLE DISPERSED FROM KENT. IF SCOTTISH LOCAL AUTHORITIES WANT TO.
230 households have stepped forward from our Room for Refugees Scotland Register, offering to take in unaccompanied child refugees. 14 potential host families will be attending Glasgow City Councils drop ins next week in the City Chambers. There are 32 households in Edinburgh and many in other local authority areas too. For more…
15 November 2016
Annual Report 2015-16
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20 October 2016
Proposed short term holding facility at Abbotsinch Road to replace Dungavel
Proposed short term holding facility at Abbotsinch Road – to replace Dungavel A planning application has been lodged by Arora Hotels/Management Services/Property with Renfrewshire Council in Scotland to build a 51-bed “short-term holding facility” on Abbotsinch Road. The “facility” will effectively detain or imprison …
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