Luqman Onikosi is an alumni of the University of Sussex and a well-known Brighton community campaigner and volunteer for numerous causes.
Continue reading “Support Luqman Onikosi at his Immigration Tribunal in London on Friday 23rd August”
Adriana Ortega-Zeifert is an international student from Mexico who came to the United Kingdom in April 2010 to pursue a PhD in Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science at the University of Manchester, having been awarded a scholarship to pursue her groundbreaking research.
Continue reading “Support a talented PhD researcher fighting for her family to remain in the UK!”In the next few weeks you’ll see pieces on the blog relating to various issues concerning the hostile environment policy inside British universities. We hope that the blog can connect people and groups are who are organising and resisting border controls in higher education.
If you are interested in writing a piece for the URBC blog, please email us at: UnisResistBorderControls [at] Gmail [dot] Com.
The Hostile Environment Policy has extended the border into UK universities
The ‘hostile environment policy’ is the anti-migrant policy announced by then-Home Secretary Theresa May in 2012, though effectively in place for years previously. The policy extends border policing into universities, healthcare, schools, and other sectors, forcing workers in those sectors to enforce immigration policy. In universities, the Home Office issues directives about its policies toward international staff and students, and university management understand these directives as ‘statutory duties’ with which they must ‘comply’. Student records offices and HR departments then develop local policies and present them to staff and students as if they were created by the Home Office.
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