Brynn Campbell’s Post

These guidelines for emergency shelters in Canada draw from international treaties, human rights frameworks, and best practices to identify what shelters in Canada could look like if they took a rights-based and gender-sensitive approach. Read here: https://lnkd.in/grt5Tu6J #shelters #homelessness Canadian Centre for Housing Rights

Unlocking Second Chances: Housing Solutions in Vegas Explore the crucial topic of Second Chance Housing in Las Vegas. Join Speaker_01 as they discuss the barriers faced by vulnerable populations, including the unhoused and migrants, and learn how innovative housing units are addressing these challenges. Discover the hope behind second chance housing in this informative video! #SecondChanceHousing #LasVegas #HousingBarriers #UnhousedSupport #Migrants #AffordableHousing #SocialJustice #CommunitySupport #NevadaHousing #Empowerment

As politicians return to Parliament this week, we’re looking at ways that our asylum system could work better for everyone. Here are messages from some of the experts who know best. ⚠️Refugee children are still being placed at risk in adult accommodation. 🛟Too many refugees have no safe way to apply to reach the UK. 💔Refugee families too often remain separated, because of our broken family reunion system. ❗We need safe routes, and a fair and humane asylum system. 📢Join us in asking the Government for simple changes that will save lives. #TogetherWithRefugees #saferoutesnow #FamiliesTogether #refugeeswelcome #UKpolitics

How can we better respond to asylum in London? I make the case for local authorities to be viewed as equal partners in the support of people seeking asylum in this LSE British Politics and Policy blogpost. Im excited to also share a new Policy Brief developed from my PhD research on London's borough council responses to asylum: https://bit.ly/3TW3GVR. This policy brief outlines three ways councils are building their capacity to respond despite a lack of resources: 1) experimenting and sharing knowledge 2) creatively reallocating existing resources, and 3) changing structures to make asylum teams. Capacity-building initiatives for local governments must be supported to increase their ability to adapt to emerging and unexpected challenges. Supporting people seeking asylum is one case that provides a lot of learning about the potential for local governments to innovate. Thank you to the Greater London Authority, London Councils, British Future, and Refugees in Effective and Active Partnership (REAP) for the opportunity to collaborate on this research. Thank you as well to the many borough council officers and London migration stakeholders that contributed their time and ideas! This brief was funded by the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Knowledge, Exchange and Impact fund. Feedback and shares welcome :)

This #RefugeeWeek, our reflections should guide us towards a conception of home grounded in abolitionist thought: home as a site of justice, safety, respect and #liberation. 

 Home should be a place free from violence: free from #colonialism, #capitalism, #racisms and other systems of oppression. Home should not subject you to borders, trauma or death. The violence of the #immigration system, alongside other systems of oppression, subjects marginalised communities and migrants, including refugees, to traumatising, segregated and even fatal living conditions, in the form of #detention, inhumane asylum accommodation or high rise tower blocks. 

 At MRN, we believe in a world where everyone is free to chose their home: a world where everyone is free to move and no one is forced to move.

 Read more: https://buff.ly/4c0AJ1B 

 #MigrantJustice #Abolition #DecolonisingMigration #Decolonisation

It’s #RefugeeWeek, and this year’s theme is ‘Our Home’. At Migrants' Rights Network, we are using this time to reflect. Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about the irony of this awareness week happening in the midst of the #GeneralElection campaign. Not only because anti-migrant policies/rhetoric are being spouted across the political spectrum, but because it feels strange to be narrowing our focus down to simply ‘celebrating’ refugees at a time where migrants, including refugees, are being used as some kind of political football. This reflection is also essential in 2024 so many refugees are being created. As people are being genocided, exploited and forced to move while refugee camps are being destroyed or people are offered no safe means to start a new life. Of course, we understand why there is the emphasis on pushing ‘positive’ stories, but we have to dig deeper and examine imperialist root causes and border regimes. On the whole, Refugee Week and the wider migration advocacy it reflects will either hone in on push factors such as persecution, war or other forms of violence without consideration for colonial legacies, or neocolonialism, or geopolitical factors. Even in the UK, belonging is highly conditional: it is based on racist ideas of ‘deservingness’, ‘contribution’ and ‘integration’. It is symptomatic of a wider narrative in migration discourse which idealises/fetishises the trauma of someone who has ‘defied the odds’ and achieved success. We offer this perspective not as a critique of migrants who have achieved this, but to ask why someone should have to do this in the first place (particularly when White Westerners like myself are not expected to do so). We should start asking questions. Questions like what is ‘home’? Do our ideas of home in the Global North (and who is entitled to make a place their home) rest on ideas of deservingness, “integration” and surface-level safety? And should we instead be striving to create a collective home based on ideas of respect, justice and liberation? Read our piece and follow us for more Refugee Week content.

🌟 We’re pleased to share that Fernando Vasco Chironda, EAPN Policy and Advocacy Officer, attended yesterday's MEP breakfast at the European Parliament. The event focused on CSO priorities for new MEPs regarding EU migration policies. 🔶 As EAPN, we stated that social rights should be better mainstreamed within the new Pact on Migration and that MS should better investigate the non-take up rate of migrants while accessing social protection schemes. 🙌This breakfast was a great opportunity to connect grassroots civil society organisations with progressive MEPs, building solidarity and discussing key challenges and priorities for the new mandate. 🤝With the new Pact and upcoming discussions on the Facilitator’s Package, building solidarity and alliances is more important than ever. #EAPN #Humanrights #Policy #Migration #MEPBreakfast #CivilSociety

We spoke to Left Foot Forward about the 56 day move-on pilot, why the change needs to be permanent and secured in law, and the need for local authorities to be properly resourced so they can prevent refugee homelessness. Read the article: https://lnkd.in/gdpV6MUV

A recent study led by Professor Anna Ziersch from Flinders University followed 25 refugees and asylum seekers for three years. The study revealed that unstable housing significantly affects refugees' and asylum seekers' physical and mental health. Challenges such as language barriers, lack of rental references, discrimination, and difficulties in establishing social connections make it even more difficult for refugees and asylum seekers to secure stable housing, especially in the context of the broader housing crisis.  These findings align with the discussions we've had in the SETSCoP (Settlement Engagement and Transition Support Community of Practice) with settlement service providers who work to assist refugees and asylum seekers in finding suitable housing. The researchers recommend comprehensive support strategies, such as longer periods of supported housing and initiatives to help build connections within neighbourhoods. 🔊 Listen to the podcast on Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) Australia: https://lnkd.in/eWxfHCBr #Housing #HousingCrisis #Refugees #AsylumSeekers #Discrimination #SocialConnections #Community #SettlementProviders 

#MedEx would provide TennCare healthcare coverage, including family planning services, to thousands of low-income individuals of childbearing age, predominantly assisting citizens but also making some immigrant and refugee community members eligible. Learn more about immigrant and refugee access to Family Planning Services in our latest blog co-authored by Nick Rummell and Vanessa Zapata. 🔗 Read the full blog at https://lnkd.in/eJWDBjUi