Useful Links

http://www.producingurbanasylum.com/ Exciting new project on asylum seeker dispersal in the UK.

http://asylum-network.com/ Between June 2010 and December 2011 a group of researchers compared the experiences of different pro-asylum organisations in the US and UK. They produced a report of their findings which offers ideas, tips and strategies to asylum suport groups in a difficult social and economic climate.

Refugee Support Network’s ‘Youth on the Move’ programme provides targeted pre- and post- removal support to minimise the risk of harm for Afghan unaccompanied minors who become Appeal Rights Exhausted (ARE) when they turn 18. Contact us if you know any 18-24 year old ARE former UASCs who are facing detention and forced removal to Afghanistan. See also our ‘Broken Futures’ report.

Fahamu Refugee Programme (www.refugeelegalaidinformation.org) and its Post-Deportation Monitoring Network http://www.refugeelegalaidinformation.org/content/deportation-failed-asylum-seekers-0)

http://carceralgeography.com/ A research blog and network that offers a geographical perspective on spaces and practices of incarceration, authored by Dr. Dominique Moran of the Unviersity of Birmingham.

http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/thebordercrossingobservatory/ An interesting border corssing observatory website at Monash.

http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk Oxford Unviersity’s migration observatory.

http://www.musicindetention.org.uk/ Music in Detention.

http://www.whyrefugeewomen.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67&Itemid=59 Beatrice Botomani

http://claresambrook.com/ Clare Sambrook. End Child Detention Now’s site: http://www.ecdn.org/ Sambrook’s presentation draws upon: The UK Border Agency’s long, punitive campaign against children (helped by G4S and Serco) CLARE SAMBROOK 16 July 2012. http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/clare-sambrook/uk-border-agencys-long-punitive-campaign-against-children-helped-by-g4s-an OR http://bit.ly/Q4583W. You can find all her journalism here:   http://www.claresambrook.com/. All OurKingdom’s reporting on child detention:  http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/collections/scandal-of-child-detention-in-uk. End Child Detention Now press campaign:  http://www.claresambrook.com/campaign-page/campaign-page.html

http://detentionaction.org.uk/ Detention Action

http://www.aviddetention.org.uk/ Association of Visitors to Immigation Detainees

http://www.biduk.org/ Bail for Immigration Detainees

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00vdxp0 A series of short animations about young refugees’ experiences produced by the BBC.

http://closecampsfield.wordpress.com/bail-observation-project/ A research project, in progress, that examines the process of bail hearings in the UK.

http://www.swan.ac.uk/cmpr/ Centre for Migration Policy Research, Swansea University