News 2018
30 July 2018
Serco’s plans to evict 300 asylum seekers onto the streets of Glasgow
Refugee homelessness charity, Positive Action in Housing, has condemned plans by Rupert Soames’ Serco group to evict 300 asylum seeker families and lone men and women, many of whom are fleeing war or persecution in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, onto the streets of Glasgow. Robina Qureshi, Director of Positive Action…
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.…