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The Unity Centre in Glasgow, Scotland is a volunteer-run organisation which provides support for asylum seekers and sans papiers. The centre has been open since 2006 and is situated in Ibrox, near to the Home Office Immigration Centre.[1]

Some of the support it provides includes:

  • taking details of asylum seekers reporting at the Home Office Immigration Centre so that their families, friends and lawyers can be alerted if they are detained[2]
  • Providing practical support and information to asylum seekers and their families.
  • Providing a night shelter, for 15 male asylum seekers who have had their applications denied.[3]
  • Running a bi-monthly group to help LGBT asylum seekers adjust to life in Glasgow.[4]
  • Helping to organise demonstrations to highlight the treatment of asylum seekers in the UK.
  • Campaigning against the enforced returns of Somalis.[5]

History

UNITY: the Union of Asylum Seekers was formed in 2005, providing a focus for human rights issues at a time when the UK Government were using dawn raids to instigate deportations.[6][7] Unity was involved with organising protests against this.[8] The organisation had been involved with notifying when people were detained and sent to Dungavel or other detention centres.

See also

References

  1. ^ Maxwell, James (28 April 2009). "Refugees and the recession". Glasgow Guardian. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  2. ^ "Give me your tired, your poor … the Europeans embracing migrants". The Guardian. 3 August 2015. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  3. ^ "Inside the Unity Centre: back home in Bangladesh I was tortured..." Evening Times. 12 February 2015.
  4. ^ Fulton, Rachael (26 February 2014). "'I didn't want to be evil or different' - gay asylum seeker flees Uganda". STV News.
  5. ^ Brown, Jonathan (3 June 2014). "Judge prevents Theresa May sending asylum-seeker back to lawless Somalia". The Independent. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  6. ^ Young, Sarah (November 2008). "Unity with Glasgow asylum seekers". Peace News. No. 2503.
  7. ^ Eskovitchl, Joseph. "Asylum seekers organise in Scotland". Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!. No. April / May 2006. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  8. ^ "Concerns voiced over dawn raids". BBC News. 7 October 2006.
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