Talk Migration was an event in May 2019. 45 people came together with representatives from over 5 refugee projects in the UK to discuss refugee rights, the situation as it stands and look at the different action projects took.
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Talk Migration was a space to be able to learn, discuss and explore refugee rights, with the support and knowledge of people who work in the field everyday.

Photos from Talk Migration May 5th 2019
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Who was involved at Talk Migration? ​

Help refugees 

Help Refugees is a refugee charity with minimum overheads and maximum impact. 94% of their fundraised money goes straight to the projects. Help Refugees have representatives on the ground across Europe to make sure the money is given quickly to the projects that need it the most. They pride themselves on pioneering a new movement in humanitarian aid that is fast, flexible and transparent. Since 2015 they’ve raised £10 million, helping around 722,500 people in 12 different countries.  All fundraised money from Talk Migration is going to Help Refugees to help them support grassroots refugee projects. ​

Indigo volunteers

Indigo Volunteers focus on connecting projects with volunteers with no fees for anyone involved. There are many issues with fee paying volunteering, including projects being unable to access volunteers, volunteers being unable to find projects, irresponsible volunteering (e.g. doing a job a local person could be employed to do) and corruption (e.g. Corrupt companies and individuals, in the knowledge people will pay substantial fees, set up fake orphanages, often with children who are not orphans, or worse, have been trafficked or bought to pose as orphans.). Indigo Volunteers tackles this by asking for no fees from anyone and handpicking projects that need help, ensuring that they are genuine and that they get the kind of volunteers that will be most useful to them. For the volunteer it also ensures that their time and skills will be assessed and they will be recommended to a project where they can really make a difference.

end deportations

End Deportations is a collective campaign calling for the abolition of deportations and detention centres. They focus on preventing deportation charter flights because they are the hardest form of deportation to resist individually. The Stansted 15 are a group of 15 human rights activists from End Deportations, who in March 2017 attached themselves to a plane about to carry out a mass deportation to Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone. ​

dentention action // freed voices

Detention Action supports people in immigration detention and campaigns for detention reform. They support people held at Colnbrook, Harmondsworth and Morton Hall detention centres and people held under immigration powers in London prisons. They provide emotional and practical support to detainees by connecting them with legal aid, having volunteer prison visitors and run a freephone advice line people can call. They also campaign against indefinite detention, asking for a strict 28 day time limit and the expansion of community based alternatives. As part of Detention Action they run a project called Freed Voices, this is a group of experts-by-experience of detention. Free Voices speak out as experts on detention to directly challenge the mainstream misconceptions around it and demand change.

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