Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Our Caseworker vacancy is still open to join our brilliant team and advise our refugee, asylum-seeking & migrant community members. Working hours = 4/5 days a week (increased from 2/3 days in our original advert) Deadline for applications = 1 July. Apply here: www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/west-lo...

especially now, these jobs are crucial

Do you know any fantastic caseworkers with housing/benefits/asylum experience? We're recruiting for a Caseworker (mat cover) to join our brilliant team @westlondonwelcome.bsky.social. Interested applicants can apply via CharityJob. Deadline is 26 May (though we may extend this). Please share!

@wilsonsolicitors.bsky.social act in this challenge - my wonderful colleague Mala Savjani and myself, with Victoria Laughton & David Chirico KC @onepumpcourt.co.uk.

"Detainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the outside world a message this week: S-O-S. With a Reuters drone flying nearby, 31 men formed the letters in the dirt yard of the facility on Monday."

Children as young as *four* are being put in the position of representing themselves without lawyers/parents present in front of immigration judges in cases that will determine whether they are deported. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

Really, you have to read it. 32,809 people detained by ICE in first 50 days of Trump. Fortunately one has the networks to get her story out.

Unceasing solidarity with our US immigration colleagues, who are facing up to - and above all whose clients are facing up to - outlandish challenges the like of which I hope we never see in the UK

Today Keir Starmer wrote in the Mail that the public 'has a right' to be angry about illegal migration. We have a right to be angry our Prime Minister is fanning the flames of far-right narratives; angry that under Labour there are still no safe routes for people to come here fleeing war. 1/

See also: the UK government sends asylum-seeking people to a former military barracks in Wethersfield, a highly isolated area of rural Essex 8 miles from the nearest town - the government has just been found to have broken the law by accommodating survivors of torture and modern slavery in the camp

In case you, like me, have been thinking about the conjunctural and historical reasons why so many of those being detained are being sent to Louisiana, here is a start: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In 2021 we gave evidence to ITV/Observer for their investigation into Home Office subcontractor Stay Belvedere paying international students less than minimum wage to work in asylum hotels, while they raked in millions. Four years later, Stay Belvedere are finally gone! www.itv.com/news/2021-02...

Absurdly proud of our clever, compassionate, tireless team, who work in-person at our refugee centre throughout the week to enable access to justice and rebuild people's sense of dignity. We're only a small team but my colleagues are truly the real deal and we couldn't be luckier.

Someone please tell the government that rushing asylum appeals through the courts is a way to ensure underprepared, unfair decisions which lead to challenges or to people making fresh asylum claims, increasing the overall delays & cost of the system, as well as adding to refugees’ anxiety & distress

Today alone at @westlondonwelcome.bsky.social: - urgent asylum appeal for Kuwaiti Bidoon woman without a lawyer; - found housing for homeless LGBTQ+ refugee couple; - groceries and dreamy lunch by our Afghan chef for 80 refugee/asylum-seeking community members; - housing/immigration advice for 30!

We aren't shy to point out that it's grassroots community refugee charities like us, who do frontline casework but also run a community centre *every day* to enable integration on a local level, that are providing this essential preparation for UK life - with no national or local government funding.

A little thread on Calvin's Case (1608) and its (mis)use in justifying attempts to strip birthright citizenship from the children of undocumented migrants in the USA, focusing on "local allegiance" the apparent precondition for citizenship according to Wurman and Barnett

Spring dispatches from @westlondonwelcome.bsky.social - our community members are teaching Arabic and Farsi in our language swap classes, we found affordable housing for three people newly with refugee status, welcomed Tunisian and Bangladeshi asylum-seeking newbies, hung out with our daffodils 🌱🌞

We're happy to have joined many other refugee charities around the world on Bluesky! We are no longer posting on X. Here's to a safer, more positive platform where we will be sharing news and updates about our community of refugees, migrants and people seeking asylum in West London. 😍