🚨Support Migrant Voice today and ensure diverse voices are heard🚨 Migrants are part of communities. We work and live alongside everyone. Together we help make the UK stronger. Even so our voices are ignored time and time again. 📣Donate today to help get us heard. www.gofundme.com/f/help-comba...

Today is #internationalMigrantsDay and we celebrate today in London as part of the Cultural Hangout Festival 2025 organised together with Centre for Youths Integrated Development (CYID). Our event is opened by 𝐑𝐚𝐟𝐚𝐞𝐥 dos Santos, Migrant Voice Trustee who welcomes everyone to the event

Tonight in Glasgow we celebrate #InternationalMigrantsDay & the finale of our 'Putting Ourselves in the Picture' project. We're launching a documentary about the project and we will hear speeches, music and have a multicultural ceilidh. Thank you to our funders the National Lottery Heritage Fund

Much of the current debate surrounding immigration continues to be based on misinformation. As our trustee, @nandosigona.bsky.social and Laurence Lessard-Phillips show in this new report, people significantly overestimate the number of irregular migrants in the UK. i-claim.eu/project/publ...

Today is #InternationalHumanRightsDay, and also the day when UK and EU leaders discuss weaken the rights of people fleeing war and persecution. If the European Convention on Human Rights is to be reformed, it must be to strengthen it, not undermine it. Read our statement for #Humanrightsday here 👇

🚨Donate today and help combat misinformation about migrants🚨 Hate and hostile policies are rooted in misinformation about migrants. If you can, please donate today to support Migrant Voice and help us continue to ensure migrants' voices and experiences are heard. www.gofundme.com/f/help-comba...

Dislike the sound of plans for a digital ID roll-out? There are good reasons!! Immigrants in the UK are already subject to a digital ID system & it's been a mess since day one. Very important report here from brilliant Migrant Voice with @openrightsgroup.org explains the key issues 🤓👇

We are thrilled to be launching our new report, Exclusion by Design: Digital Identification and the Hostile Environment for Migrants, with Derya Ozkul (University of Warwick) and Marie Godin (University of Leicester) and @openrightsgroup.org www.migrantvoice.org/img/upload/C...

Great work by @migrantvoice.bsky.social and researchers from Warwick University and Leicester University. Congratulations to former colleague @mariegodin.bsky.social who co-authored the report www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The shift to a "digital only immigration system" is already causing distress and exclusion for many migrants. Our work with the University of Warwick has shown significant issues with the system. We will be launching our report later today detailing the problems. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🚨Join us for International Migrants Day🚨 Migrant Voice and Centre for Youths Integrated Development (CYID) are coming together to celebrate the lives, journeys and resilience of all migrants. 🎉We have a packed array of activities for the event. To sign today 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/internatio...

Misinformation about migrants is stoking hostility and causing division. Read our editorial explaining some of the ways in which it is used against migrants, and why it is wrong. 🚨Support Migrant Voice in combatting misinformation🚨 www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...

Today @migrantvoice.bsky.social has launched their winter fundraiser. At a time when misinformation is increasing division, and driving government policy, it is crucial it is countered and that the experiences and voices of migrants are heard. If you can donate please do. Please also share widely.

Challenging misinformation around migration is essential right now, so please support @migrantvoice.bsky.social who do a brilliant job of giving clear, evidenced info.

🚨Campaign launch🚨 Today Migrant Voices launched our "Don't knows do care" campaign to counter misinformation around migration. Your support is important. Please donate, if you can., share and take part in helping to combat the hostile rhetoric. Please donate here👇 www.gofundme.com/f/help-comba...

This is a very good explainer about the recently released government consultation into changes to settlement by our colleagues at @praxisprojects.bsky.social and @gmiau.bsky.social

Successive governments have treated international students as an easy target. Whether unjustly stripping them of the right to study, increasing costs for them, preventing them from being with loved ones etc. This is yet more hostility wrapped up as policy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The guidance was offered as an attempt to dispel misinformation … In practice it has had the opposite effect, becoming a catalyst for crime reporting reminiscent of the 1970s and 1980s – reviving a focus on race and migration status." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🚨Join us on December 5th for the launch of this new report, ‘Exclusion by Design: Digital Identification and the Hostile Environment for Migrants.’ into impact of e-visas and digitalisation of status on migrants, led by Derya Ozkul (University of Warwick) and Marie Godin (University of Leicester).

We already see the devastating impact of 20 year routes on individuals. They need scrapping, not more people forced onto them. Any of us can find ourselves needing help at some stage. Pushing people into more debt and misery because they do is unjust and discriminatory. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The most recent attack on the rights and dignity of those who have come to this country seeking asylum are not isolated. They form part of a wider, and dangerous, cycle of hostility and abuse against migrants. Read our response to these attacks here👇 www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...

This government's anti-asylum policies are inhumane, dehumanising and dangerous. Its announced proposals today put already vulnerable individuals at increased risk of mental and physical harm, along with exploitation. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

We must stop the hostility towards, and demonisation of, people just trying to seek safety. Our statement on just some of the Home Secretary's proposed changes to the asylum system

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...