RESOURCES
Here are some useful websites that will provide additional information regarding asylum seekers.
Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees
Scottish Refugee Council
Informative website providing advice to refugees and asylum seekers with examples of their personal experiences in Scotland.
Positive Action In Housing
Information and advice for refugees, asylum seekers and minority ethnic groups on equal opportunities, with particular reference to housing and community issues.
CARIS
Gives legal info and advice to young asylum seekers in Scotland..
Oxfam - Asylum Seekers Myths and Facts
Detailed replies to common stereotypes and myths about asylum seekers.
One Scotland - No Place for Racism
Detailed replies to common stereotypes and myths about asylum seekers.
Refugee Survival Trust
A Scottish Charity that gives small grants to asylum seekers living in extreme poverty.
COSLA Scottish Asylum Seeker Consortium
Briefings on policy, with press cuttings and statistics from a Scottish perspective.
Glasgow ESOL
The Glasgow ESOL Forum is a membership organisation of teachers, tutors and volunteers practising English teaching to Speakers of Other Languages.
Friends of the Refugees Ayrshire
Close Dungavel Now
The site is for anyone who wants to give assistance - direct or indirect - to innocent refugees who are imprisoned or in danger of being imprisoned inside Dungavel Detention Centre without crime, trial or time limit. The site is also for those wishing to assist refugees made 'absolutely destitute' under the Asylum & Immigration Act 1999.
Refugee Council ( England)
National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns
NCADC is a campaigning voluntary organisation, which provides practical help and advice to people facing deportation on how to launch and run anti-deportation campaigns.
Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers
Website with information on current campaigns and how to get involved.
Asylum Support .Info
Focuses on all matters that concern people seeking asylum, together with a directory of hundreds of online resources relating to: asylum and refugees, conflict, country data, court cases. deportation, detention, discrimination, funding, gender, government, human rights, human trafficking, law, media, migration, policy and studies.
Asylum Policy .Info
A free email service. The best source of up-to-date news in asylum policy
End Child Segregation .info
Children in detention: Briefings, human rights information, legislation, organisational details, petitions, press releases, protest letters and statistics.
Asylum Support Procedure Rules
Immigration & Nationality Directorate
Asylum Aid
Free legal advice for asylum seekers and campaigns for fair treatment in the UK.
Refugee Legal Centre
Provides help, advice and information to asylum seekers, with offices in Dover, London and Leeds.
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
JCWI is an independent national voluntary organisation, campaigning for justice and combating racism in immigration and asylum law and policy. JCWI provides free advice and casework, training courses and a range of publications.
Bail for Immigration Detainees
Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) works with asylum seekers and migrants detained under UK Immigation Act powers, in removal centres and prisons.
Barbed Wire Britain
The Barbed Wire Britain network wants to stop the shame of over 1,800 people, nearly all of them asylum seekers, locked up in detention camps and prisons in Britain, without trial and without time limit and with no automatic right to bail.
No One Is Illegal
The No One Is Illegal Group (UK), established in September 2003 to campaign for the total abolition of all immigration controls.
Oxfam Cut Conflict Campaign
Part of Oxfam's commitment to reducing human suffering as a result of conflict, this section of the website focuses on the issues and myths of asylum seekers in the UK.
ICAR:
Information Centre about asylum and refugees in the UK. This website exists to promote understanding of asylum and refugees in the UK and to encourage information-based debate and policy making
Indymedia
The Indymedia UK website provides an interactive platform for reports from the struggles for a world based on freedom, cooperation, justice and solidarity. This link takes you to reports on asylum and migration issues:
Refugees Welcome
Here is a major campaign to give refugees and asylum seekers a better welcome in Greater Manchester.
HARPWEB
Is a website for health professionals and volunteers working with refugees and asylum-seekers. Full of useful resources.
No Border Network
A European Network bringing together campaigns in support of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants.
United Against Racism
A European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of asylum seekers.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organisation which investigates and publishes human rights abuses across the world
The Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants
The Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants aims to promote respect for the basic social rights of undocumented migrants within Europe.
Refugee Action Information
Refugees Asylum-Seekers Media Project
Schools against Deportations – Curriculum Resources
Bail for Immigration
Electronic Immigration Network Resources
Forced Immigration Online