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Have your say in the London mayoral election

There’s an important election coming up. And no, we’re not talking about the one on 12 December. Next May, London residents will go back to the polls to vote for the city’s next mayor. Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party is the current mayor – he was elected in 2016. At Migrant Voice, we’ve been working alongside other charities and civil society organisations from across the capital – brought together by London Plus, a volunteering and civil society charity – to produce a series of powerful manifesto asks to put…

There’s an important election coming up. And no, we’re not talking about the one on 12 December. Next May, London residents will go back to the polls to vote for…

Unsettling: A report on the EU Settlement Scheme

On Tuesday 19 November, we published a report on the EU Settlement Scheme, which all EEA nationals and their families in the UK must apply to if they wish to continue living here after Brexit. The report, ‘Unsettling’, is based on responses to a survey that we conducted online in summer 2019, open to anyone eligible to apply to the Settlement Scheme, whether they had already applied or not. It was also open to organisations working with EEA nationals. Read the report here. The survey found that many applicants are facing…

On Tuesday 19 November, we published a report on the EU Settlement Scheme, which all EEA nationals and their families in the UK must apply to if they wish to…

Inspired by Nelson Mandela: Feven’s story

Feven was 16 when she first arrived in the UK as a refugee. “It was hard,” she says. “I felt alone, away from my family, all the long way from my country. You have to cross country, country, country, I was crying.” She had travelled from Eritrea and arrived in the UK in 1993 with several other Eritreans known to her family. Feven was joining her older brother and older sister who had already settled in the UK. She spent much of her time at first with the Eritrean community…

Feven was 16 when she first arrived in the UK as a refugee. “It was hard,” she says. “I felt alone, away from my family, all the long way from…

‘I thank Duchamp for making me migrate’: Migration trail at the Tate Modern

As a Polish-origin teenager in the United States, Camille Gajewski-Richards often dreamed of escaping back to an idealised ‘old world’ brimming with urbane, colourful characters like artist Sonia Delaunay, a world her own parents had fled in the 1980s. “The Europe I envisioned was an antidote to the drab realities of the Soviet Bloc and American suburbia,” she recalls. “It often took the form of London, or Paris, and characters like Delaunay.” So Camille, who now works at the Tate Modern in London, was surprised to learn that Delaunay was herself…

As a Polish-origin teenager in the United States, Camille Gajewski-Richards often dreamed of escaping back to an idealised ‘old world’ brimming with urbane, colourful characters like artist Sonia Delaunay, a world…

Home Office scraps proposed scheme to help innocent international students

In early October, Stephen Timms MP received a letter from Immigration Minister Seema Kennedy regarding the tens of thousands of international students wrongly accused of cheating on an English test by the Home Office in 2014. Migrant Voice has been campaigning alongside the students on this issue for two years, and pressure from the 'My Future Back' campaign and from supportive MPs has led to extensive media coverage, damning reports by the National Audit Office, APPG on TOEIC and the Public Accounts Committee. The campaign also helped to signficantly shift…

In early October, Stephen Timms MP received a letter from Immigration Minister Seema Kennedy regarding the tens of thousands of international students wrongly accused of cheating on an English test…

Public Accounts Committee report should shame Government

The Public Accounts Committee - the committee of MPs responsible for overseeing the Government's expenditure - has today published a report into the Government's reaction to allegations that some international students were cheating on an English language test in 2014. Around 34,000 students were accused of cheating and another 22,000 told their tests were questionable. Tens of thousands of students had action taken against them - their visas were revoked, many were detained, nearly 2,500 were removed from the UK. But many of them were innocent, and thousands have tried…

The Public Accounts Committee - the committee of MPs responsible for overseeing the Government's expenditure - has today published a report into the Government's reaction to allegations that some international…

'What do you do?' I'm undocumented and that question haunts me

It was Eid last week. It’s an Islamic festival and the full name is Eid ul-Adha (the festival of sacrifice). I had a really great time but I was also depressed as I live in the UK undocumented through no fault of my own and I’m suffering the consequences of it. When my family gathers together for these festivals, and I have to answer questions about what I do with my life if I can’t study or work, it’s mentally disturbing. The festival of Eid celebrates the time when Allah…

It was Eid last week. It’s an Islamic festival and the full name is Eid ul-Adha (the festival of sacrifice). I had a really great time but I was also…

Making music across borders: A photo essay

Alena Bulatetskaya and Huixin Hu are two brilliant young musicians at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, in Glasgow. Alena moved to Scotland from Rostov-on-Don, a city in southern Russia, while Huixin Hu came to Glasgow from China. In their time together at the Royal Conservatoire they have formed a bond - through music and through friendship. In May they performed together at the University of Glasgow in a concert to raise money for Cancer Research. Just a few weeks later, Alena gave her first solo concert at the Royal Conservatoire. …

Alena Bulatetskaya and Huixin Hu are two brilliant young musicians at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, in Glasgow. Alena moved to Scotland from Rostov-on-Don, a city in southern Russia, while…

Birth and death in Russian detention centres

Four beds are squeezed into a tiny room with dirty grey walls. There is hardly any space in the room. There’s also a shower and a toilet here, separated by a curtain. Sunlight illuminates the room through the bars. This tiny room in a detention center in Russia was the first home for new-born Nabotov and the last for the severely ill Vephviya Sordiya. The conditions in which foreign citizens and stateless persons are detained in Russia (the stated end goal being deportation) are often inhumane and violate national and…

Four beds are squeezed into a tiny room with dirty grey walls. There is hardly any space in the room. There’s also a shower and a toilet here, separated by…

Home Office statement on international students scandal is a further betrayal

On 23 July 2019, the Home Secretary published a written statement regarding the tens of thousands of international students accused of cheating on an English test in 2014. We are deeply disappointed by its contents. The Home Secretary has been promising this statement for nearly four months and the lack of substance and refusal to offer any kind of solution is a severe blow to the thousands of innocent students waiting for a lifeline. As they wrote in a letter to the Home Secretary last month, the students are living daily…

On 23 July 2019, the Home Secretary published a written statement regarding the tens of thousands of international students accused of cheating on an English test in 2014. We are deeply…

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Have your say in the London mayoral election

There’s an important election coming up. And no, we’re not talking about the one on 12 December. Next May, London residents will go back to the polls to vote for…

Unsettling: A report on the EU Settlement Scheme

On Tuesday 19 November, we published a report on the EU Settlement Scheme, which all EEA nationals and their families in the UK must apply to if they wish to…

Inspired by Nelson Mandela: Feven’s story

Feven was 16 when she first arrived in the UK as a refugee. “It was hard,” she says. “I felt alone, away from my family, all the long way from…

‘I thank Duchamp for making me migrate’: Migration trail at the Tate Modern

As a Polish-origin teenager in the United States, Camille Gajewski-Richards often dreamed of escaping back to an idealised ‘old world’ brimming with urbane, colourful characters like artist Sonia Delaunay, a world…

Home Office scraps proposed scheme to help innocent international students

In early October, Stephen Timms MP received a letter from Immigration Minister Seema Kennedy regarding the tens of thousands of international students wrongly accused of cheating on an English test…

Public Accounts Committee report should shame Government

The Public Accounts Committee - the committee of MPs responsible for overseeing the Government's expenditure - has today published a report into the Government's reaction to allegations that some international…

'What do you do?' I'm undocumented and that question haunts me

It was Eid last week. It’s an Islamic festival and the full name is Eid ul-Adha (the festival of sacrifice). I had a really great time but I was also…

Making music across borders: A photo essay

Alena Bulatetskaya and Huixin Hu are two brilliant young musicians at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, in Glasgow. Alena moved to Scotland from Rostov-on-Don, a city in southern Russia, while…

Birth and death in Russian detention centres

Four beds are squeezed into a tiny room with dirty grey walls. There is hardly any space in the room. There’s also a shower and a toilet here, separated by…

Home Office statement on international students scandal is a further betrayal

On 23 July 2019, the Home Secretary published a written statement regarding the tens of thousands of international students accused of cheating on an English test in 2014. We are deeply…

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