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This is the text of a talk given by Lisa Matthews of NCADC at the 2013 SOAS Detainee Support conference on Saturday 27 April.  The panel was asked to consider: What are the strategic opportunities and risks of advocating for ‘alternatives’ to detention? Should we be promoting existing ‘alternatives’ such as bail, or case management [...]

Theresa May has a bad habit of ruining Sundays.  Sundays are a good day for her populist, racist pandering to the right-wing press to receive a lot of air-time.  Tempting as it is to ignore her attention-seeking power-hungry attempts to fashion her own legacy, her latest intervention in the Article 8-foreign ex-offenders-deportation affair came at [...]

News stories from the world of asylum, immigration, human rights and NCADC.  Look out for our campaign review of the year in January! —- JANUARY The year commenced with an important legal victory for human rights, as explained by Rosalind English on theUK Human Rights Blog: People who make unsuccessful claims to enter or remain [...]

Serious concerns lost in headlines about backlog statistics “entering the world of the UKBA is like falling through the looking glass” Keith Vaz, Chair of Committee Last week (8 Nov), the UK parliament’s Home Affairs Committee published a report of its latest Inquiry into the work of the UK Border Agency. The Committee has now [...]

Sometimes the news isn’t news to any of us. The ‘farcical handling’ of an Afghan asylum seeker’s case?  How many times have we heard that before? The difference this time is that the Afghan asylum seeker was an interpreter who had worked for British forces – and had been injured in a Taliban bomb blast [...]

We are delighted to invite all our supporters and members to our action-packed annual conference on Saturday 8 September from 10:30am till 6pm in London.  The conference is being held at Praxis Community Projects at Pott Street in Bethnal Green, East London. It’s a full day programme as there is so much to discuss!  We [...]

The NCADC blog is pleased to welcome three guest posts from Molly Haglund, who has just completed a Masters Degree in Human Rights Practice at the Universities of Roehampton, Gothenburg and Tromsø.  They are edited excerpts from her thesis entitled Punished for Persecution: An Analysis of the Criminalization of the Asylum Seeker in the United Kingdom which [...]

The NCADC blog is pleased to welcome three guest posts from Molly Haglund, who has just completed a Masters Degree in Human Rights Practice at the Universities of Roehampton, Gothenburg and Tromsø.  They are edited excerpts from her thesis entitled Punished for Persecution: An Analysis of the Criminalization of the Asylum Seeker in the United Kingdom which [...]

Dividing families, disrupting integration The government has recently announced significant rule changes on family migration to the UK from outside the EU (see below for details). People seeking to bring their spouse or partner, children and other close dependants to join them to the UK will face new barriers to family life here. The Joint [...]

Hamedullah: The Road Home (Sue Clayton, UK, 23 min) and panel discussion on the policy of returning young people to Afghanistan Part of the London International Documentary Festival at The Roundhouse Studio Theatre, Monday 28 May 2012 7.00-8.30pm. Hamedullah: The Road Home is the film story of a young teen who came to the UK [...]