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/