Victoria Square, Birmingham, March 2011

Women demonstrating against the cuts to ESOL English classes. The demonstration was outside Birmingham town hall and was organised by the TUC and the UCU. Read more

Turkish demonstration against arbitrary deportations, Dalston Lane, 1984

Many Turkish people settled in Hackney in the 1970s and 1980s, they worked in the rag trade, catering and grocery shops, often having to put up with awful working and housing conditions. Immigration officials and the police would raid these sweatshops, detain those who had overstayed their visas and then seek to deport them. Local… Read more

Tamil women, Walthamstow, 1990

Women from the Tamil refugee community lobby a council meeting in Walthamstow as part of a campaign for better housing. Read more

No man’s land – Colnbrook Immigration Detention Centre, 2011

Since it opened in 2004 more than 40,000 detainees have passed through Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre. The centre, built as a Class B prison, currently holds over 380 detainees, many of whom are held for extended periods of time, sometimes for even five years or longer. None of the detainees are in the centre to… Read more