No Small Victories: Community Tales of Resistance Haringey Welcome

Lucy talks to Tonya Mavri about her work with children and families for Caris Haringey and her memories of growing up in Tottenham in the 1980s and 1990s. 

 Please visit Caris Haringey to find out more and consider donating here.
Follow the links below to find out more about the issues and organisations mentioned in this podcast .

To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at refugeeswelcomeharingey@gmail.com
We’d love to hear from you!



Historic England – Racism and Resistance
https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/another-england/a-brief-history/racism-and-resistance/
 
Citizens Advice – No Recourse to Public Funds
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/about-us/our-work/our-campaigns/policy-campaigns/no-recourse-to-public-funds/
 
Locked Out of a Livelihood – The Case for Reforming “No Recourse to Public Funds”
https://www.ippr.org/articles/locked-out-of-a-livelihood


Homes4all campaign
Homes4all
 

Welcome  to Season 2 of No Small Victories! In this first episode , Lucy speaks to Rossana Leal, Founder and CEO of The Refugee Buddy Project and a refugee who arrived in Britain from Chile in the 1970s. Recorded at the end of 2023, fifty years  after the violent right-wing Chilean coup  toppled Salvador Allende's democratic government and brought a 17-year dictatorship to power, Rossana reflects on how the past, and the welcome her and her family received as refugees in Scotland, has informed her work for migrant justice and building community through art and culture.

Please visit The Refugee Buddy Project to find out more and consider donating to the project!

Follow the links below to find out more about Chile, Chilean exile and Britain's connection as well as the organisations and places mentioned in this podcast .

To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at refugeeswelcomeharingey@gmail.com
We’d love to hear from you!

Chile

'Half a Century After His Death, Salvador Allende is Still Present Among Us' by Victor Figueroa for Jacobin

'Letters as a Lifeline to Chile' by Gloria Miqueles

'Memory is a Political Act' by Isabel Cortes for Four Corners

'The Chilean Coup at 50: An Interview with Mike Gatehouse' for Tribune Magazine

Resistance, Rights and Refuge: Britain and Chile 50 Years after the Chilean Coup


Solidarity Knows No Borders
https://sknb.org/


Making home: the world in Brick Lane


https://beyondbanglatown.org.uk/globe/making-home-the-world-in-brick-lane/
 

In this episode, we remember the remarkable but tragic life of Sharif Barko, long term resident of Haringey, friend and supporter of Haringey Welcome, and a Sudanese refugee from Darfur’s Massaleit community, who was tragically killed on a family visit to Darfur in January 2021. Through Sharif’s story we explore the wider context of conflict and genocide in Darfur and Sudan over the past two decades, and Britain’s failure of responsibility towards Sudanese migrants and refugees.
Find out more about Sharif, Darfur, Sudan, and the UK’s broken asylum system by following the links below. To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at refugeeswelcomeharingey@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you!
 
Sharif Barko
Sharif Barko 1961-2021
https://vjgrove.wixsite.com/sharifbarko 
Sharif Barko HMDT educational resource
https://www.hmd.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Sharif-Barkos-life-story.pdf
 
Organisations
Waging Peace
https://wagingpeace.info/
 
Articles
Sudanese refugees face deportation from UK as government fails to set up safe and legal routes
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sudan-war-refugees-uk-small-boats-b2326453.html
Sudan is at risk of unravelling from decades of injustice 
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/sudan-unravelling-from-decades-injustice
  
Reports and briefings
Genocide: all over again in Darfur? APPG Sudan report April 2023
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cI2LmXRdwBdWR8OtZIN9Jnws8gXI0U5c/view
JCWI ‘Illegal Migration” Bill 2023 Briefing
https://www.jcwi.org.uk/illegal-migration-bill-2023-briefing
 
Music
Beja Power! Electric Soul & Brass from Sudan’s Red Sea Coast
By noori & His Dorpa Band
https://ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/album/beja-power-electric-soul-brass-from-sudans-red-sea-coast
Abu Obaida Hassan & His Tambour: The Shaigiya Sound of Sudan
By Abu Obaida Hassan
https://ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/album/abu-obaida-hassan-his-tambour-the-shaigiya-sound-of-sudan
 
 

Lucy speaks to Mavis, a single mum, author, campaigner, and migrant, about coming to the UK from Jamaica as a teenager and living for decades with insecure immigration status, navigating rules and systems such as ‘no recourse to public funds’ and the ‘ten-year route’. Mavis explains how she eventually found her power and her voice and the courage to speak up in order to help and educate others.
 Find out more about UK immigration policy, campaigns, and organisations mentioned in the conversation by following the links below. To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at refugeeswelcomeharingey@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you!
 
Links
How Hostile Immigration Policies Affect Mothers and their Access to Support
https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2023/04/21/how-hostile-immigration-policies-affect-mothers-and-their-access-to-support/
 
Policies and research
Inclusion of migrants with irregular status
https://web.archive.org/web/20181019094407/http://citiesofmigration.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/Building-Inclusive-Cities_APRIL30_Final.pdf
 Report: experiences on the 10-year route to settlement
https://www.praxis.org.uk/briefings/experiences-on-the-10-year-route-to-settlement
 Locked out of a livelihood: the case for reforming ‘no recourse to public funds.
https://www.ippr.org/research/publications/locked-out-of-a-livelihood
 The ‘devastating’ impact of the 10-year process
https://www.ippr.org/news-and-media/press-releases/revealed-the-devastating-impact-of-10-year-process-endured-by-thousands-on-course-to-settle-in-uk
 
Campaigns
 Abolish Reporting Campaign
https://www.migrantsorganise.org/our-campaigns/abolish-reporting/
Regularise
https://regularise.org/


Services and support
Domestic Abuse/Violence Support
https://www.haringey.gov.uk/social-care-and-health/health/public-health/domestic-violence-and-abuse-and-violence-against-women-and-girls/advice-and-support/organisations-offering-support

Cardinal Hume Centre
https://www.cardinalhumecentre.org.uk/
Association of Christians in Counselling
https://www.acc-uk.org/
Haringey Migrant Support Centre
https://haringeymsc.org/
Project 17
https://www.project17.org.uk/
 Praxis
https://www.praxis.org.uk/

Lucy speaks to Mulugeta, Resettlement Support Worker at Haringey Council,
about his experience of growing up in war-torn Eritrea, of travelling for two years in search of sanctuary, and finally of enduring the challenges of the UK’s hostile asylum system. Mulugeta shares his love of education and commitment to community development, which have allowed him to find growth and purpose since settling in the UK.

Find out more about human rights in Eritrea, and the UK’s asylum system by following the links below. To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at refugeeswelcomeharingey@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you!

Amnesty Eritrea country report 2022
https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/africa/east-africa-the-horn-and-great-
lakes/eritrea/report-eritrea/

The Hostile Environment explained
https://www.jcwi.org.uk/the-hostile-environment-explained

What would a safe, accessible, effective asylum system look like?
https://www.jcwi.org.uk/what-would-a-safe-accessible-effective-asylum-system-look-like%20 

Lucy speaks to Abdulrahman Bdiwi, Lived Experience Involvement Officer at Breaking Barriers, about his experience of starting a new life in Britain after coming here via the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme. In a remarkably honest and revealing conversation, Abdulrahman describes the many challenges he and his family have lived through and how he has set about successfully building a new life.

You can find out more about the organisations Abdulrahman mentions by following the links below. To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at refugeeswelcomeharingey@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you!

Organisations mentioned by Abdulrahman
Breaking Barriers
https://breaking-barriers.co.uk/
Safe Passage
https://www.safepassage.org.uk/
British Red Cross
https://www.redcross.org.uk/
Citizens UK
https://www.citizensuk.org/
Voices Network
https://www.redcross.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/how-we-support-refugees/voices-network

Further information
Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS) for Syrian refugees (now closed)
https://www.unhcr.org/uk/news/latest/2021/3/6059f1fd4/the-uks-syria-resettlement-progamme-looking-back-and-ahead.ht
The Hostile Environment explained
https://www.jcwi.org.uk/the-hostile-environment-explained
Right to Remain toolkit
https://righttoremain.org.uk/toolkit/
Refugee resettlement facts
https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/information/refugee-asylum-facts/refugee-resettlement-facts/
‘What Would a safe, accessible, effective asylum system look like?’
https://www.jcwi.org.uk/what-would-a-safe-accessible-effective-asylum-system-look-like
Amnesty International Syria report 2022
https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/syria/report-syria/