Asylum Matters
@asylummatters.bsky.social
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@asylummatters.bsky.social
· May 27
When irresponsible politicians try to divide our communities, what do we do? We speak up, we stand together, we stay strong.
We are, and always will be, an island of solidarity, not of strangers.
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We are, and always will be, an island of solidarity, not of strangers.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
How many people have died because the UK won't give them a safe route to seek sanctuary?
The shocking truth is, we don't exactly know. Our Government refuses to keep an official record of the people who die trying to reach safety here.
The shocking truth is, we don't exactly know. Our Government refuses to keep an official record of the people who die trying to reach safety here.
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
How many people have died because the UK won't give them a safe route to seek sanctuary?
The shocking truth is, we don't exactly know. Our Government refuses to keep an official record of the people who die trying to reach safety here.
The shocking truth is, we don't exactly know. Our Government refuses to keep an official record of the people who die trying to reach safety here.
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Adopting a Denmark-style immigration model is a dangerous new low from our Government. Pushing temporary status, harsher family reunion rules and “parallel society” labels throws basic rights under the bus in a bid to win cheap votes.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK to announce plans to emulate stringent Danish immigration system
Shabana Mahmood’s proposals draw scorn from some Labour MPs, while others want government to go further
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Adopting a Denmark-style immigration model is a dangerous new low from our Government. Pushing temporary status, harsher family reunion rules and “parallel society” labels throws basic rights under the bus in a bid to win cheap votes.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
From 'one-in-one-out' to another bizarre scheme: this time keeping families apart & reducing support for people fleeing war.
A better asylum system doesn't need to be this complicated. Just let people work, process their claims, and stop wasting millions on expensive cruelty.
A better asylum system doesn't need to be this complicated. Just let people work, process their claims, and stop wasting millions on expensive cruelty.
November 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
From 'one-in-one-out' to another bizarre scheme: this time keeping families apart & reducing support for people fleeing war.
A better asylum system doesn't need to be this complicated. Just let people work, process their claims, and stop wasting millions on expensive cruelty.
A better asylum system doesn't need to be this complicated. Just let people work, process their claims, and stop wasting millions on expensive cruelty.
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The UK Government count applications, decisions, and removals.
But they don’t count the human cost of a system that forces people into danger to seek safety.
A humane asylum system would protect lives, not end them.
#KnowTheirNames
But they don’t count the human cost of a system that forces people into danger to seek safety.
A humane asylum system would protect lives, not end them.
#KnowTheirNames
While headlines focus on how many people claim asylum in the UK, there's one number that's not even officially counted:
The number of people who die while trying to seek sanctuary here.
We know our policies kill people. Their deaths must not be ignored.
#KnowTheirNames
The number of people who die while trying to seek sanctuary here.
We know our policies kill people. Their deaths must not be ignored.
#KnowTheirNames
November 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The UK Government count applications, decisions, and removals.
But they don’t count the human cost of a system that forces people into danger to seek safety.
A humane asylum system would protect lives, not end them.
#KnowTheirNames
But they don’t count the human cost of a system that forces people into danger to seek safety.
A humane asylum system would protect lives, not end them.
#KnowTheirNames
How often do we have to hear about the disgusting conditions people endure in converted hotels before our leaders stop spreading the "luxury accommodation" lie?
The Government knows people are suffering in hotels - to suggest anything else is shameless scapegoating.
The Government knows people are suffering in hotels - to suggest anything else is shameless scapegoating.
Inside the UK’s ‘luxury’ migrant hotels
This week, the prime minister’s official spokesperson suggested migrant hotels are ‘luxury’ places to live. But with rodent and slug infestations, substandard food and large families packed into…
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November 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
How often do we have to hear about the disgusting conditions people endure in converted hotels before our leaders stop spreading the "luxury accommodation" lie?
The Government knows people are suffering in hotels - to suggest anything else is shameless scapegoating.
The Government knows people are suffering in hotels - to suggest anything else is shameless scapegoating.
While headlines focus on how many people claim asylum in the UK, there's one number that's not even officially counted:
The number of people who die while trying to seek sanctuary here.
We know our policies kill people. Their deaths must not be ignored.
#KnowTheirNames
The number of people who die while trying to seek sanctuary here.
We know our policies kill people. Their deaths must not be ignored.
#KnowTheirNames
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
While headlines focus on how many people claim asylum in the UK, there's one number that's not even officially counted:
The number of people who die while trying to seek sanctuary here.
We know our policies kill people. Their deaths must not be ignored.
#KnowTheirNames
The number of people who die while trying to seek sanctuary here.
We know our policies kill people. Their deaths must not be ignored.
#KnowTheirNames
Rania has so many skills to offer - but she's banned from using them while awaiting her asylum decision. Today, the House of Lords debated a vital change to force Parliament to hear evidence about the impact of this absurd work ban.
The Government must listen to people like Rania and #LiftTheBan
The Government must listen to people like Rania and #LiftTheBan
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Rania has so many skills to offer - but she's banned from using them while awaiting her asylum decision. Today, the House of Lords debated a vital change to force Parliament to hear evidence about the impact of this absurd work ban.
The Government must listen to people like Rania and #LiftTheBan
The Government must listen to people like Rania and #LiftTheBan
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This afternoon an incredibly important principle is being debated in the House of Lords
We know people die at our border & in our asylum system at a horrifying rate, but shockingly the govt does not record how many, who, or how.
@asylummatters.bsky.social are campaigning to #KnowTheirNames
We know people die at our border & in our asylum system at a horrifying rate, but shockingly the govt does not record how many, who, or how.
@asylummatters.bsky.social are campaigning to #KnowTheirNames
November 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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A brilliantly written and incredibly relevant article from Julia - @asylummatters.bsky.social
'Human beings belong in communities, not camps' 👏
'Human beings belong in communities, not camps' 👏
Human being belong in communities, not camps. And our Government knows it. They said they'd shut the camps and stop wasting millions making people seeking sanctuary suffer - so why are they bringing this failed plan back now?
Why housing asylum seekers in military camps is an expensive mistake
Julia Savage, campaigns manager at Asylum Matters, writes about why housing asylum seekers in military barracks is wrong.
www.bigissue.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
A brilliantly written and incredibly relevant article from Julia - @asylummatters.bsky.social
'Human beings belong in communities, not camps' 👏
'Human beings belong in communities, not camps' 👏
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Why you should show solidarity with people seeking #asylum
Our patron, human rights activist and co-founder of UK Black Pride @ladyphyll.bsky.social talks about why standing up against xenophobia and hate is so important right now.
#refugeeswelcome
Our patron, human rights activist and co-founder of UK Black Pride @ladyphyll.bsky.social talks about why standing up against xenophobia and hate is so important right now.
#refugeeswelcome
November 5, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Why you should show solidarity with people seeking #asylum
Our patron, human rights activist and co-founder of UK Black Pride @ladyphyll.bsky.social talks about why standing up against xenophobia and hate is so important right now.
#refugeeswelcome
Our patron, human rights activist and co-founder of UK Black Pride @ladyphyll.bsky.social talks about why standing up against xenophobia and hate is so important right now.
#refugeeswelcome
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This afternoon an incredibly important principle is being debated in the House of Lords
We know people die at our border & in our asylum system at a horrifying rate, but shockingly the govt does not record how many, who, or how.
@asylummatters.bsky.social are campaigning to #KnowTheirNames
We know people die at our border & in our asylum system at a horrifying rate, but shockingly the govt does not record how many, who, or how.
@asylummatters.bsky.social are campaigning to #KnowTheirNames
November 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This afternoon an incredibly important principle is being debated in the House of Lords
We know people die at our border & in our asylum system at a horrifying rate, but shockingly the govt does not record how many, who, or how.
@asylummatters.bsky.social are campaigning to #KnowTheirNames
We know people die at our border & in our asylum system at a horrifying rate, but shockingly the govt does not record how many, who, or how.
@asylummatters.bsky.social are campaigning to #KnowTheirNames
We know people seeking asylum are dying: but Government won't even record their deaths. We can't save lives without knowing how people are dying & why.
Today, Lords debate a Borders Bill amendment to ensure these deaths can't be swept under the rug.
It's time to #KnowTheirNames
Today, Lords debate a Borders Bill amendment to ensure these deaths can't be swept under the rug.
It's time to #KnowTheirNames
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
We know people seeking asylum are dying: but Government won't even record their deaths. We can't save lives without knowing how people are dying & why.
Today, Lords debate a Borders Bill amendment to ensure these deaths can't be swept under the rug.
It's time to #KnowTheirNames
Today, Lords debate a Borders Bill amendment to ensure these deaths can't be swept under the rug.
It's time to #KnowTheirNames
The West Mids #LifttheBan Campaign group had such an amazing response last week. Lots of local independent businesses were ready to show their support for the right to work!
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The West Mids #LifttheBan Campaign group had such an amazing response last week. Lots of local independent businesses were ready to show their support for the right to work!
Frightened children seeking safety in the UK are going missing. Many are likely to have been targeted by traffickers.
Children who asked for our protection are being abandoned to exploitation - it's absolutely disgraceful.
Children who asked for our protection are being abandoned to exploitation - it's absolutely disgraceful.
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Frightened children seeking safety in the UK are going missing. Many are likely to have been targeted by traffickers.
Children who asked for our protection are being abandoned to exploitation - it's absolutely disgraceful.
Children who asked for our protection are being abandoned to exploitation - it's absolutely disgraceful.
It's right to be angry about asylum accommodation. But too often, that anger is directed at people seeking safety - not the broken system that they're forced to navigate.
This brilliant guide explains the real issues in asylum accommodation, and how to change the conversation:
This brilliant guide explains the real issues in asylum accommodation, and how to change the conversation:
Asylum housing: Changing the conversation | Freedom from Torture
A guide on talking about refugees and torture survivors in asylum accommodation
stories.freedomfromtorture.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's right to be angry about asylum accommodation. But too often, that anger is directed at people seeking safety - not the broken system that they're forced to navigate.
This brilliant guide explains the real issues in asylum accommodation, and how to change the conversation:
This brilliant guide explains the real issues in asylum accommodation, and how to change the conversation:
Fantastic to see MPs engaging with the crucial importance of regional, place based responses to the very specific challenges new refugees face. Congratulations to @boaztrust.bsky.social on their excellent report about this 👇
Earlier this week, several of the team from Boaz travelled to Parliament to meet with MPs and share our recent report (From surviving to thriving: preventing homelessness in Greater Manchester among people recently granted refugee status).
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November 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Fantastic to see MPs engaging with the crucial importance of regional, place based responses to the very specific challenges new refugees face. Congratulations to @boaztrust.bsky.social on their excellent report about this 👇
Human being belong in communities, not camps. And our Government knows it. They said they'd shut the camps and stop wasting millions making people seeking sanctuary suffer - so why are they bringing this failed plan back now?
Why housing asylum seekers in military camps is an expensive mistake
Julia Savage, campaigns manager at Asylum Matters, writes about why housing asylum seekers in military barracks is wrong.
www.bigissue.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Human being belong in communities, not camps. And our Government knows it. They said they'd shut the camps and stop wasting millions making people seeking sanctuary suffer - so why are they bringing this failed plan back now?
If you care about human suffering, military asylum camps are a terrible idea.
If you care about taxpayers' money, military asylum camps are a terrible idea.
So why is the Government about to open more military asylum camps?
#CommunitiesNotCamps
If you care about taxpayers' money, military asylum camps are a terrible idea.
So why is the Government about to open more military asylum camps?
#CommunitiesNotCamps
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
If you care about human suffering, military asylum camps are a terrible idea.
If you care about taxpayers' money, military asylum camps are a terrible idea.
So why is the Government about to open more military asylum camps?
#CommunitiesNotCamps
If you care about taxpayers' money, military asylum camps are a terrible idea.
So why is the Government about to open more military asylum camps?
#CommunitiesNotCamps
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To our community: thank you for raising up this statement and making it headline news.
To the Home Office: It's time to do better. It is not illegal to seek safety. The government must stop whipping up the same hatred we have seen erupt outside hotels, endangering the people forced to live in them.
To the Home Office: It's time to do better. It is not illegal to seek safety. The government must stop whipping up the same hatred we have seen erupt outside hotels, endangering the people forced to live in them.
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
To our community: thank you for raising up this statement and making it headline news.
To the Home Office: It's time to do better. It is not illegal to seek safety. The government must stop whipping up the same hatred we have seen erupt outside hotels, endangering the people forced to live in them.
To the Home Office: It's time to do better. It is not illegal to seek safety. The government must stop whipping up the same hatred we have seen erupt outside hotels, endangering the people forced to live in them.
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THREAD
A week ago, we published this statement by the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group. The response has been overwhelming. The group has had many messages of support from our local area and beyond, and people have been inspired to share the message far and wide in their own communities.
A week ago, we published this statement by the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group. The response has been overwhelming. The group has had many messages of support from our local area and beyond, and people have been inspired to share the message far and wide in their own communities.
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
THREAD
A week ago, we published this statement by the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group. The response has been overwhelming. The group has had many messages of support from our local area and beyond, and people have been inspired to share the message far and wide in their own communities.
A week ago, we published this statement by the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group. The response has been overwhelming. The group has had many messages of support from our local area and beyond, and people have been inspired to share the message far and wide in their own communities.
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This This This! 🙏🏻 ❤️
Refugee voices must be at the heart of our narratives - not just as subjects, but as the storytellers.
Our campaigns manager, Dr Allan Njanji, writes powerfully about what real representation means:
Our campaigns manager, Dr Allan Njanji, writes powerfully about what real representation means:
Reclaiming the Narrative: Why Refugee Voices Must Be at the Heart of Media Storytelling • Sounddelivery Media
During the period that I was an asylum seeker, I realised how powerful the media was in shaping how people like me were seen. The stories told about refugees often shape how the public reacts, how…
www.sounddelivery.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This This This! 🙏🏻 ❤️
Refugee voices must be at the heart of our narratives - not just as subjects, but as the storytellers.
Our campaigns manager, Dr Allan Njanji, writes powerfully about what real representation means:
Our campaigns manager, Dr Allan Njanji, writes powerfully about what real representation means:
Reclaiming the Narrative: Why Refugee Voices Must Be at the Heart of Media Storytelling • Sounddelivery Media
During the period that I was an asylum seeker, I realised how powerful the media was in shaping how people like me were seen. The stories told about refugees often shape how the public reacts, how…
www.sounddelivery.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Refugee voices must be at the heart of our narratives - not just as subjects, but as the storytellers.
Our campaigns manager, Dr Allan Njanji, writes powerfully about what real representation means:
Our campaigns manager, Dr Allan Njanji, writes powerfully about what real representation means:
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We signed this letter, along with proud Brummies who know that Brum wouldn’t be Brum without people from around the world.
But we’re worried our proud tradition of sanctuary is being undermined by divisive rhetoric and dangerous policy. 👇
www.expressandstar.com/your-world/2...
#RefugeesWelcome
But we’re worried our proud tradition of sanctuary is being undermined by divisive rhetoric and dangerous policy. 👇
www.expressandstar.com/your-world/2...
#RefugeesWelcome
October 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
We signed this letter, along with proud Brummies who know that Brum wouldn’t be Brum without people from around the world.
But we’re worried our proud tradition of sanctuary is being undermined by divisive rhetoric and dangerous policy. 👇
www.expressandstar.com/your-world/2...
#RefugeesWelcome
But we’re worried our proud tradition of sanctuary is being undermined by divisive rhetoric and dangerous policy. 👇
www.expressandstar.com/your-world/2...
#RefugeesWelcome
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Military sites are unfit to house people fleeing war & persecution.
Falsely sold as 'cost-cutting', these plans come at huge financial & human cost.
Write to your MP - tell them people seeking asylum should be welcomed as our neighbours, not warehoused in camps: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Falsely sold as 'cost-cutting', these plans come at huge financial & human cost.
Write to your MP - tell them people seeking asylum should be welcomed as our neighbours, not warehoused in camps: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
#CommunitiesNotCamps
I've written to my MP to ask them to oppose all camp-style asylum accommodation and house people seeking asylum in safe and suitable housing within communities where they can rebuild their lives in di...
actionnetwork.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Military sites are unfit to house people fleeing war & persecution.
Falsely sold as 'cost-cutting', these plans come at huge financial & human cost.
Write to your MP - tell them people seeking asylum should be welcomed as our neighbours, not warehoused in camps: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
Falsely sold as 'cost-cutting', these plans come at huge financial & human cost.
Write to your MP - tell them people seeking asylum should be welcomed as our neighbours, not warehoused in camps: actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
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Great to remind the #HomeSecretary that Birmingham has and will welcome people from across the globe
We signed this letter, along with proud Brummies who know that Birmingham wouldn’t be Birmingham without people from around the world.
But we’re worried our proud tradition of sanctuary is being undermined by divisive rhetoric and dangerous policy. 👇
www.expressandstar.com/your-world/2...
But we’re worried our proud tradition of sanctuary is being undermined by divisive rhetoric and dangerous policy. 👇
www.expressandstar.com/your-world/2...
October 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Great to remind the #HomeSecretary that Birmingham has and will welcome people from across the globe