A Shiver Down the Spine: David Blunkett and the immigration “swamping”...
David Blunkett MP chose to echo the words of Tory MP Michael Fallon (and Margaret Thatcher) in alleging that communities are being “swamped” by migrants, writing in the Daily Mail on October 27th....
View ArticleThe Slippery, Cynical Politics of Asylum
With just months to go before the UK general election, John Grayson examines party politics on asylum and what the response of migrants and campaigners might be. Main picture of is migrants and...
View ArticleAsylum Rights Election Question Time Sheffield 16th April 7pm
Will any political party will stand up for the rights of refugees and people seeking asylum? Do the votes of refugees, anti-racists and supporters of human rights and migrants rights count? Do the...
View ArticleSupport Asylum and Migrant Rights on May 7th
We asked the General Election candidates in South Yorkshire if they supported our Asylum and Migrant Rights 6-Point Pledge: Those seeking asylum should have the right to work whilst in the U.K. Replace...
View ArticleSYMAAG AGM 20th May: Life in the “hostile environment”
“Illegal” ex-Immigration Minister Mark Harper has been appointed Conservative Chief Whip. Harper resigned from his post after he was found to have illegally employed Isabella Acevedo last year. Harper...
View Article“We could not just walk by”: eyewitness report from migrant border camp
by John Dunn, ex-coal miner and striker during the 1984/85 miners strike and member of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign “Just back from a week in the South of France, staying in Menton, a...
View ArticleJaber Abdullah: how I set up a refugee football team in Barnsley
Barnsley, like other northern ex-industrial towns, is often stereotyped as racist and hostile to refugees. Refugees, including SYMAAG members, do experience some wariness, hostility and racism from...
View ArticleWho Supports Asylum and Migrant Rights?
The General Election on June 8th gives us the chance to support parties and candidates in South Yorkshire who stand for asylum and migrant rights. We’ll be helping you decide who they are by holding a...
View ArticleAsylum Journey Sheffield
Asylum Journey Sheffield website has information about services and resources for asylum seekers and refugees in Sheffield. Created by Sheffugees it is a comprehensive and easily searchable resource...
View Article“Welcome to Sheffield” book discussion November 26
SYMAAG founding member and local author David Price will talk about his latest book, “Welcome to Sheffield – A Migration History” November 26th 7-9pm at The Sanctuary 37-39 Chapel Walk Sheffield S1 2PD...
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