This Refugee Week, DDVG shows solidarity with people suffering under the UK’s asylum support system and demanding basic human respect. Christine and Angie on the Ex-Detainee Project and the staff at DDVG are used to standing up for their clients. This Refugee Week, they’re going one better by sharing in the experiences of their clients […]
Read more "Refugee Week 2013: Struggle for Survival"Conditions imposed on asylum seekers in the UK make parenting almost impossible. People are detained indefinitely in removal centres, even while the Home Office can’t remove them. Asylum seekers initially refused by the Home Office, if they are released, are banned from working and made to live under Section 4 or without support. Four fathers […]
Read more "Father’s Day for asylum seekers: four fathers’ stories"Section 4: need to know low down Section 4 is… 1. A legislative regime, under which people whose asylum applications have been refused and those without legal status in the UK must live, pending final determination of their immigration status or removal from the UK. 2. Coercive. People living under Section 4 are banned from […]
Read more "What is Section 4?"One of our intern’s offers her perspectives of DDVG, the work caseworkers and volunteers do, and the experiences of the detainees she has met. My name is Cecile. Having finished my BA in International Relations and Politics I am now doing an internship at the NGO’s office. I have different tasks assigned to me, but […]
Read more "First impressions: internship at Dover Detainee Visitor Group"Detention Support and Awareness Officer NJC salary scale point 22, £19,621. Full-time, 37.5 hours per week, for 6 months. Dover Detainee Visitor Group – a charity supporting immigration detainees in Dover Immigration Removal Centre, and nationwide on release from any removal centre in the UK – is seeking qualified applicants for the position of Detention […]
Read more "Detention Support and Awareness Officer (Dover)"DDVG shares contacts for people being removed from the UK to a European country under Dublin II VICTOR FIORINI, DETENTION SUPPORT MANAGER AT DDVG. It is common for NGOs to think that once those we are helping leave the area, there is little else we can do. Sometimes the detainees we visit might be of […]
Read more "Dublin II: support after removal"Announcement: ex-detainee conference 2013 Dear Friends, The Dover Detainee Visitor Group will be holding our annual Ex-Detainee Conference on Wednesday, 5 June 2013 at Amnesty International’s Human Rights Action Centre in London from 13:00 to 16:00. We would like to invite you to attend this much anticipated event. It provides an unrivalled opportunity for visitors […]
Read more "You’re invited!"People in immigration detention often have complex legal cases: immigration law is difficult and discriminatory; the UKBA often makes decisions that breach its own guidance; those decisions are often matters of life or death – refusing someone asylum who claims they will be tortured if sent back to his/her country of origin. DDVG’s Detention Support Manager, Victor Fiorini, explains why […]
Read more "UK fails immigration detainees who need legal representation"February 2013 UK’s use of force against asylum seekers under scrutiny The State’s use of force against immigration detainees has come under scrutiny, as a man died in immigration detention on 10 February. As news emerged of the death of an 84 year old man in immigration detention – the seventh person to die in […]
Read more "Media Round Up"Today DDVG joined 62 other charities and organisations all over England and Wales to raise money for free legal advice projects. The Great Legal Bake is an attempt at the largest ever legal bake sale by the London Legal Support Trust. The Trust works with the Access to Justice Foundation to fund the provision of […]
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