Newsletter March 2010
This is the March 2010 issue of The Forum's newsletter. In this issue we discuss the realities of families and individuals who are living in detention centres in the UK. We also examine the various...
View ArticleWhat Makes You Tip? 8 Profiles of Migrants & their Integration Tipping Points
Born and raised in Japan, where the sense of homogeneity prevails, I didn't understood what it was like to be a foreigner or what it was like to live next to someone from a...
View ArticleLove Knows No Borders: Changes to Immigration Rules Will Separate Families
The Government claims that families form the ‘bedrock’ of a strong and stable society, but recent changes to immigration rules concerning family migration threaten to tear as many as 15,000 families...
View ArticleLove Knows No Borders: Home Office defeated in landmark case
Sometimes, the battles for a fairer and more transparent immigration regime are not fought on the streets or in Parliament, but in the courtroom. We were reminded of the power of the courts by...
View ArticleUK Home Office: Investor in People
All those who have to deal with UK immigration authorities, under whatever name they operate now, know how to cope with the Kafkaesque features of the system designed to deter. The asylum support...
View ArticleTheir dramatic stories…
Migrants and refugees feel lonely in the UK regardless of the duration of their stay here. Moreover, they face remarkable challenges related to loneliness. My new research for The Forum, titled This is...
View ArticleDo you know how it feels to be lonely?
Do you really know how it feels to be lonely? For my research, This is how it feels to be lonely, I interviewed The Forum’s members. Some were happy to share their dramatic stories and their...
View ArticleGetting the right to stay in the UK: the beginning of a new struggle
As part of our blog series looking at the isolation that our members face, 'This is how it feels to be lonely' , The Forum’s Mentoring Project Support Worker Heike Langbein explores the reality of...
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