A key point about "volunteering" is that it should be "voluntary". By forcing migrants to volunteer this government not only treats us as if we are a free resource, but also ignores everything else we go through. This policy is dehumanising and exploitative. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

When we published our report "No Rest No Security" into Home Office run hotels we found similar issues with the conditions. That was more than two years ago and @ramfel.bsky.social show the situation hasn't improved. People seeking asylum need to be treated better www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The extortionate costs of visas, sometimes about ten times the actual processing costs, leave families ripped apart. While feeling waivers exist, they can be far too hard to access for many. We need a system which treats migrants with respect, not as magic money trees. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Taking place in London from the 6th to the 12th of November the Women and the World International Film Festival will bring together a diverse array of screenings and workshops by women filmmakers from across the world. www.migrantvoice.org/home/pagenew...

Human rights must not be used as a scapegoat to excuse continuing, and escalating, anti-migrant rhetoric and policies. The ECHR helps protect everyone. Leaving it, or weakening it, harms all of us. It must be protected rather than attacked. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The upcoming film screening of ‘Bianca’, as a part of the Scottish Queer International Film Festival reflects on Priscila’s lived experiences as a trans sex worker on the streets of Brazil,, before she moved to Glasgow in 2021. www.migrantvoice.org/articles/new...

In response to today's Home Affairs Select Committee report into spiralling costs of asylum hotels, we are calling on this government to focus on a system which treats those seeking safety with dignity and respect, and supports everyone. People don't choose to be trapped in, often, unsuitable hotels

The UK has some of the highest visa costs in the world, particularly compared to other "science nations" as the Royal Society data shows. This is not only costing migrants thousands of pounds just to work in the UK, it also undermines the whole country. royalsociety.org/-/media/poli...

We are standing with @srtrcengland.bsky.social for Wear Red Day to show our support for #AntiRacism #Education 🔗 theredcard.org/wear-red-day/ #TogetherWeAreStronger #WRD2025

Our Director Nazek welcoming everyone to our network meeting ‘saying No to hate’ this evening in London. Nazek set the context for why we’re meeting tonight because we’re concerned about the rise of the far right, the scapegoating of migrants for political gain and the impact it has on our society.

We add our voice to those calling for this government to rethink its discriminatory anti-immigration policies, risking hundred of thousands of people's livelihoods, and stand with all the TfL workers who will be outside Parliament at 1pm on Wednesday to protest this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Political and media hostility targeted towards minorities and marginalised groups, including those coming to the UK to seek safety, feeds into this. We urgently need to detoxify political and media rhetoric surrounding immigration and minorities www.bbc.com/news/article...

Our Director, Nazek Ramadan, spoke at the @greenparty.org.uk conference today, on a panel chaired by @carladenyer.bsky.social, about the hostile media and political environment facing migrants, and how to combat it.

Our Director, Nazek Ramadan, spoke at the @greenparty.org.uk conference today, on a panel chaired by @carladenyer.bsky.social, about the hostile media and political environment facing migrants, and how to combat it.

The current visa system already leaves many migrants facing poverty, working multiple jobs, as they pay the often tens of thousands of pounds in costs. Proposed changes from this government continues the dehumanising treatment of us as we are treated as second class. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We stand with @picumofficial.bsky.social in calling out the EU's proposed Deportation Regulations. 🚨 The EU’s new “Return Regulation” expands detention - including in offshore sites - fuels racial profiling & strips away rights. Here’s why civil society is united in rejecting it ⬇️

Proud to stand with our friends at @praxisprojects.bsky.social @rfuk.bsky.social & @migrantvoice.bsky.social in calling out this govt's foolish & cruel plans to shove more people on the 10 year route to settlement. These routes need capping not expanding. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Proud to stand with @rfuk.bsky.social, @praxisprojects.bsky.social and @ramfel.bsky.social in calling out the "race to the bottom* we see with anti-immigration policies, and the unjust double taxation many migrants face. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Responding to Home Secretary's proposal, our Director, Nazek Ramadan, said: "Imposing visa restrictions is a guaranteed way to ensure that even more people, desperate to flee their country or to join family in the UK, are forced into using irregular routes." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...

Nazek Ramadan, Director of Migrant Voice, said: "Among the promises made by this government before it came to power was to reduce the use of camps and ensure people seeking asylum were treated humanely. This decision is a slap in the face to those promises." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mahm...

Over the summer we have seen an increasing "normalisation" of hostile rhetoric and actions against migrants, including those seeking asylum. This is emboldened by a media and political narrative which fails to challenge misinformation. Our latest editorial👇 www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...

A coalition of orgs including @rfuk.bsky.social, @migrantvoice.bsky.social, @ramfel.bsky.social, @praxisprojects.bsky.social and @gmiau.bsky.social urges all MPs to participate in the Westminster Hall Debate on 8/9 about gov's plans to extend time needed to reach settlement. Why is this crucial?🧵

Since we wrote our report in the conditions people seeking asylum face in hotels, quoted in the article, the situation has not improved, and for some has worsened. The rampant misinformation, and protests, we see about hotels ignore the reality of what they are like. www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Speaking about this government's attack on international students seeking asylum, Nazek Ramadan, director of Migrant Voice, calls it “yet another example of this government attempting to scare people who have come to this country”. www.bigissue.com/news/interna...

"The alternative was setting a dangerous precedent which would embolden the far right to further target those seeking safety," Our Director, Nazek Ramadan, speaking to the BBC about the Appeals Court verdict on Epping hotel asylum accomodation. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

An important piece by one of our Migrant Voice Ambassadors, Sadia Sikandar, on far-right protests outside in Perth, and the campaigners, who outnumbered them two to one, who stood against them in support of those who have come seeking safety. bylines.scot/society/refu...

As our report, No Rest No Security, showed, many hotels used for people seeking asylum are unsuitable. We need investment in community support. Sadly, the recent High Court judgement regarding Epping risks seeing people placed in even more inhumane conditions. www.migrantvoice.org/resources/re...

“Even though we were living in Scotland, I still longed for a taste of home, so we started with authentic Barbari bread, which you won’t find in many places around the city." Our Glasgow members talk about their lives bringing Iranian food to Glasgow. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2539327...

We joined 200+ other organisations in signing @refugeestogether.bsky.social Open Letter. For the safety of everyone, politicians must stop using the demonising and hostile rhetoric we continue to see levelled against migrants, and start showing respect and unity. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Our Director, Nazek Ramadan, comments on plans to penalize international students for seeking asylum in today's Morning Star. “To deny international students the ability to claim asylum ignores why people seek it in the first place." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/camp...

As our Director, Nazek Ramadan, says here: "Ministers saying that they “understand the frustrations” of those outside hotels only emboldens those who seek to spread hate and division, and leaves migrant communities in fear for their safety." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Following last year's riots we interviewed some of those affected by the violence which was launched at migrant and marginalised communities. A year on, as we continue to see hate and division still thrown at our communities, we are sharing the first podcast here 👇 www.spreaker.com/episode/ep-1...

We are all one community, and as a community we stand #unitedagainstdivision . Together we can stand against the hate, violence and division stoked by hostile rhetoric and the far-right. Share your pics and videos of solidarity.

🚨Stand #unitedagainstdivision 🚨 A year on from the far-right riots we saw attacking marginalised communities we continue to see hate, division and violence launched against migrants. Share your pictures and videos, using the hashtag, and stand in solidarity with communities.

Here’s one I made earlier and it keeps being relevant #UnitedAgainstDivision

I am joining @migrantvoice.bsky.social and standing #UnitedAgainstDivision. I hope many more people will join with their campaign over the week and share their pics and videos of solidarity with migrants, and all marginalised communities, against the hate and vio6 we see thrown against them.

@rfuk.bsky.social stands in solidarity with @migrantvoice.bsky.social, all migrants and marginalised communities. This is not just about immigration. It’s about who we are as a nation. Choose empathy over fear, welcome over exclusion and solidarity over silence

One year on from the far-right riots we saw across the UK and migrants and marginalised communities are still being put at risk from violence. We have also seen communities stand together though against hate and divisions. Stand #unitedagainstdivision www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...

A year after the far-right riots which swept the country, we continue to see violence against migrants and marginalised communities. Together we can stand against it. Share your pics and visas and stand #UnitedAgainstDivision👇 www.migrantvoice.org/home/pagenew...

One year ago we saw a horrendous attack take the lives of young children in Southport. The violence and rioting which erupted across the country afterwards must not be allowed to happen again. We need to stand #UnitedAgainstDivision, and ensure that all our communities feel safe.

It seems timely with current policies that we have been part of helping creating this report, from the University of Birmingham, into experiences of irregularised migrant workers in the UK food delivery sector, as part of the Horizon Europe and UKRI-funded I-CLAIM project. zenodo.org/records/1577...

Hostile and harmful rhetoric about migrants is emboldening those who engage in far-right attacks on all our communities. Language matters, and it must not continue to be used to fuel hate and division. #UnitedAgainstDivision

If this government is looking at expanding who can vote, the question must be asked why so many migrants, people paying taxes are denied a voice in the decisions which affect them. This should be a time to look at ensuring their voices are heard as well. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our statement on this government's latest anti-asylum policy announcement.

As we come to one year since the General Election, Migrant Voice looks at the way in which migrants' rights, and welfare, has been, or will be, impacted by the policies and proposals which have been put forward over the last 12 months. www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...

This is exactly what we have been warning about. E-visas aren't ready to be enforced this way. For too many people they will lead to a loss of recognition of their status, loss of ability to work, and even loss of ability to rent. There needs to be a rethink www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Last night 40 people joined us to hear from experts and affected individuals to look at and discuss the implications of the Immigration White Paper on migrants, and what we can do to counter these hostile proposals. You can read more about it here👇 www.migrantvoice.org/home/pagenew...

Starting our network meeting on the implications of the Immigration White Paper, and the potential ways in which these can be addressed and countered, particularly through hearing the voices of those most affected.

It does not matter where someone comes from, or how they arrive, their rights and access to justice must remain equal to everyone else. There is no excuse for creating a two tier system of rights and access to justice, yet that is exactly what we see happening.

This is unlikely to be an isolated incident. For years we've seen the Home Office treat children as adults. This is a further extension of the well documented cruelty they have shown against unaccompanied children. It's the result of the dehumanisation of migrants www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...