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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group

@symaag.bsky.social
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We take action for all migrants' rights and against racism. linktr.ee/symaag

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Sheffield Transformed @sheffieldtransformed.org · 10/09/2026
📣Announcing.. South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group! South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG) have co-organised our session on ‘Solidarity Not Charity: Harnessing the Power of International Solidarity’.
A graphic promoting the Visions festival. It features an image of a crowd in holding a banner reading "DIGNITY NOT DETENTION" and signs like "NO ONE IS ILLEGAL" The graphic also features the SYMAAG logo.Graphic for the Visions festival promoting a session co‑organised with South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG) titled "Solidarity Not Charity: Harnessing the Power of International Solidarity". SYMAAG formed in June 2007 to campaign for migrants' rights and oppose the hostile environment.
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Join us for the 53rd anniversary of the coup in #Chile. For those we lost, and for those who are still fighting for Truth and Justice. Memory as an act of resistance Together we stand, united in struggle 12th September at 1.30 in #Sheffield S3 8GF
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
53 years since the fascist coup in Chile. Decades since South Yorkshire welcomed refugees from Chile. Now we're delighted to work with Sheffield's Chilean community to mark that solidarity. #Sheffield event on Saturday September 12th - save the date! #RefugeesWelcome #Chile
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"We're going to prove that migration causes violence by providing the violence"
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
As paramilitary groups and far-right prepared throughout 2025 and 2026 for a 2026 pogrom, End Deportations Belfast and other groups worked to sound alarm bells. enddeportationsbelfast.wordpress.com/2026/06/10/2...
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2026: A Pogrom In The Making.
As paramilitary groups and far-right prepared throughout 2025 and 2026 for a 2026 pogrom, End Deportations Belfast and other groups worked to highlight fifteen causes for alarm.1. Far-right activit…
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Alliance for Choice @all4choice.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Anaka are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast. Donate here chuffed.org/project/1854...
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Defend migrants, stop the far right! 11.30am Saturday June 13 Sheffield Town Hall On June 13 the far right will attempt to march on a hotel in Sheffield housing refugees and people seeking asylum. Join the counter protest to stop them and show your opposition to racism
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This Tuesday 9 June in Sheffield Solidarity with Sudan: an evening of information, films, food and discussion. 6-8pm Sheffield Hallam Owen Building S1 1WB Book your free ticket here🔽 tickettailor.com/events/sheff...
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Starting life in a new country or even a new city isn't easy. The New To Sheffield resource brings together a wide range of info about support and services in #Sheffield▶️ newtosheffield.co.uk/about-us. #RefugeesWelcome
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
In Chesterfield for #InternationalWorkersDay26 because migrants' rights = workers rights. #LifttheBan #MayDay2026
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
And an era of resistance www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOY5...
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Everybody to Kenmure Street - official trailer
YouTube video by Conic
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“They didn’t explain. They didn’t ask for permission" Learn your rights to resist UK's ICE offensive antiraids.net/about/ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘They singled out non-white, foreign-born workers’: the restaurants raided by Britain’s version of ICE
They’re not armed and they keep a relatively low profile. But the Home Office’s immigration compliance and enforcement officers have searched thousands of business in pursuit of illegal workers. Are t...
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Migrants Organise @migrantsorganise.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
From suspending student visas to family reunion- this government is entrenching a culture of cruelty. Solidarity to the Sudanese students fighting to live freely and with dignity, agency and courage. You deserve a life of freedom and safety,. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Sudanese students say UK visa ban has dashed hopes of studying at top universities
More than 200 applicants fear they will lose places after home secretary suspends study visas from four countries
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
📅Tomorrow in Sheffield 6.30 Amazing panel of Iranian and Kurdish speakers with a wealth of experience and a sharp analysis of war, repression and forced migration. Register 👉https://sheffield.ac.uk/migration-research-group/events/understanding-iran-protests-domestic-and-international-perspectives
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Stop Bombing Iran - Hands off Lebanon - Free Palestine 🏰Sheffield Town Hall 🕛12noon 📅Saturday 21st March #HandsOffIran #WomenLifeFreedom #RefugeesWelcome
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🔸Iran in Crisis: Protests, War and Repression🔸 Tuesday 24 March 6:30-8:30pm University of Sheffield Join expert panellists to discuss the impact of war on Iranian society and movements for liberation and women's rights. #HandsOffIran #WomenLifeFreedom Register🔽 sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re...
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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🧵This is the biggest attack on the rights of recognised refugees in recent memory & is reminiscent of the worst failed policies of the disastrous last govt. People seeking safety need security in order to start over, but this govt seems to want to forget that there are people at the centre of this.
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Refugee status to be temporary as Shabana Mahmood rips up rules on UK asylum
Home secretary announces 30-month protection limit, with refugees required to leave if their home countries are later judged safe
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Jonathan Potts @uccellolirico.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The discourse seems to have lost some time ago the point that coming without permission if you are a refugee is actually something we are committed under international law to accepting and responding positively to, not something Ministers ahould be rejecting and stoking resentment towards.
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Join us tonight at 5pm at Sheffield Town Hall. Change in Iran must come from the Iranian people not from US/Israeli bombs. Hands off Iran. Stop forcing people to become refugees #Iran #IranMassacre
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"Britain has been dragged into another war because our Prime Minister would rather appease Donald Trump than stand up for international law. War is not a game. This shameful decision makes Britain complicit in the devastating consequences ahead - and jeopardises the safety of us all" - Jeremy Corbyn
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Thinking of the Iranian community in South Yorkshire and their friends and families in Iran. It's for the people of Iran to determine their future not those who would turn their country back into a colony and force more Iranians to become refugees. #IranMassacre #IranWar #Iran
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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
An important reminder that an asylum system that works better for all of us is possible - and it starts with giving people seeking sanctuary the right to work Well done to the amazing Sheffield Lift The Ban group for their brilliant campaigning towards this vital goal 👏
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“It’s about dignity”: The Sheffield organisations campaigning to give asylum seekers the right to work
Organisations in Sheffield are campaigning to give people seeking asylum the right to work.
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Migrants Organise @migrantsorganise.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Asylum housing harms health! Right now, people seeking protection are living in hostile housing that harms their health, whilst private companies make bumper profits. Hostile Housing, our new report with @medact.bsky.social, shares the lived realities ⬇️ www.migrantsorganise.org/new-report-h...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...
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Iranian protesters don't owe us an explanation
Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
James Baldwin knew
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Fundraising and awareness event for #Sudan, supporting families who have fled the escalating violence in Bara and El Fasher 🗓️Saturday 14 February ⏲️3-9pm 🏠SADACCA 48 The Wicker #Sheffield S3 8JB - organised by peace-for-sudan.org.uk
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
UK Home Office has a contract to "monitor migration" with #Palantir a tech firm notorious for working with ICE in US. Petition here➡️ nopalantir.org.uk Come to the #Sheffield meeting tonight⬇️
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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🚨 We are horrified by the disturbing footage of the response to peaceful protests in two detention centres against the harmful 'one in, one out' UK-France deal . www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... 1/3
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More than 100 asylum seekers stage ‘one in, one out’ protests at detention centres
Officers with riot shields, dogs and teargas called in to quell action at Harmondsworth and Brook House facilities
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
“I’ve not been able to sleep since it started...you know that people are out there protesting and my family might be one of them" Good piece @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social about the hopes and fears Iranians in Sheffield have about #IranUprising2026 www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/fraught-with...
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Resist
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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Andrew Wallis OBE @andrewwallis.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Doubting survivors and tightening evidence does not strengthen protections for people trapped in modern slavery. It weakens them. Data shows many refusals are overturned on review. Our laws should amplify justice not silence the vulnerable. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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UK immigration law has helped modern slavery thrive, says damning…
New findings point to a ‘growing culture of disbelief’ within government towards victims of trafficking
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Our government proposes that refugees escaping Iran (who have no safe or formal way to reach the UK at all), should have their status made more precarious, forced for decades to reapply repeatedly for their right to stay, denied reunification with their families #r4today
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Don't miss #Khartoum a 2025 film about the lives of 5 people during the Sudanese civil war + discussion with SOS #Sudan a mutual aid organisation for Sudanese people seeking asylum in #Sheffield. 📅Thursday 5 Feb 🕖7:30-9:30 🏣Broomhall Centre S10 2FD Tickets🔽 www.tickettailor.com/events/sheff...
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"Immigration Enforcement" is the practice of creating fear and terror. What migrants and global majority people experience today is on its way to everyone else #ReneeGood #Minneapolis #AbolishICE
Outdoor event to remember Renee Good with placards "RIP Renee" and "ICE are terrorists"
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 08/01/2026
“The real reason is to control Palestinian life, to make living impossible, to eventually erase us.” @dianabuttu.bsky.social writes about the Israeli government’s banning of 37 foreign aid groups from operating in Palestine and the lack of international outrage. Read: zeteo.com/p/israel-aid...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
For many of those seeking asylum a mobile phone isn't just a lifeline to keep in contact with loved ones, it's an essential resource in accessing information and resources. State mandated theft is another example of Labour's dehumanisation of people seeking safety www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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UK’s plans to seize asylum seekers’ phones condemned by campaigners
People who are sent to Manston processing centre will be eligible for searches for electronic devices from Monday
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
As an Iranian SYMAAG speaker said at the Sheffield protest today "it's for the people of Iran and Venezuela to determine their future not those who would turn their countries back into colonies". Full SYMAAG statement here⬇️ facebook.com/symaag.perso... #HandsOffVenezuela
Hands off Venezuela protest in the sun outside Sheffield Town Hall with each big letter carried by one person
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Migrants' Rights Network @migrantsrights.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Mobilise on Shabana Mahmood’s Turf 📣13 December 12pm Now is the time for everyone, no matter their immigration, visa or citizenship status, to be in solidarity with migrant workers and 📢say together we work, together we rise @jcwi-uk.bsky.social @regulariseuk.bsky.social @asylummatters.bsky.social
We are here to stay
Migrants Workers' RIghts National Demonstration
12pm Saturday 13 December 2025
The Home Secretary's Constituency
Birmingham Ladywood
Assemble St Martins Square B5 4BW
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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
You can read more about what Humans For Rights Network found in France, and the changes they're demanding, here: www.humansforrights.org/state-violence
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"You can't stay and you can't go" - State Violence at the UK-France Border — Humans for Rights Network
Humans for Rights Network gives hope to those suffering human rights abuse and empower those witnessing widespread rights violations to become champions of justice. We hold those in positions of…
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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The reality of the violence at our border is horrifying. But we must not look away. We were privileged to be in Parliament today with @humansforrights.bsky.social @utopia56.bsky.social @projectplayfrance.bsky.social & others to show lawmakers what's being done in the name of UK border policies.
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United Voices of the World @uvwunion.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Rad more about the case here 👇🏾https://crowdjustice.com/case/help-seasonal-migrant-workers/ #JusticeForWorkers #UVWUnion #MigrantJustice #SolidarityForever #WorkersRights #ModernSlavery #justiceformigrantworkers
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United Voices of the World @uvwunion.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Thank you to everyone who’s donated — we still need £6,500 to challenge the unfair time limits that are denying seasonal migrant workers access to justice. 💥 Donate to their legal fund and help set a vital precedent for all victims of exploitation. www.crowdjustice.com/case/help-se...
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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Once again #Sheffield said #NoToRacism and #refugeesarewelcomehere. @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk @symaag.bsky.social
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Sheffield Transformed @sheffieldtransformed.org · 06/11/2025
📣Announcing... Barnaby Raine and Maria Vasquez-Aguilar Maria Vasquez-Aguilar works in Adult Education and is currently doing a PhD in political history at the University of Sheffield. A trade unionist and local activist, Maria co-founded Chile Solidarity Network and Chile 50 years UK.
An announcement graphic for Barnaby Raine and  Maria Vasquez-Aguilar at Sheffield Transformed Festival. There are two photographs - one of each of them.
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Sheffield Transformed @sheffieldtransformed.org · 16/11/2025
📣Announcing... Voice of Voiceless Immigration Detainees Yorkshire (VVIDY) - Displacement, Borders and Decolonial Resistance: Voices from the Margins
An announcement graphic for Sheffield Transformed festival 28-30 November. It contains photos of VVIDY campaigners and their logo
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Sheffield Transformed @sheffieldtransformed.org · 14/11/2025
📣Announcing... South Yorkshire Refugee Law and Justice - Community Fightback for Migrant Legal Rights A session to discuss how, we can work together to help people to assert their rights and defend our communities 🎟️: buff.ly/g9shP7n
An announcement graphic for Sheffield Transformed festival 28-30 November. It contains South Yorkshire Refugee Law and Justice logo which has scales above a sun and hills.
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Sheffield unites against racism and hate. March in Sheffield Saturday 22 November. Assemble 11.30 at Devonshire Greem
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South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group @symaag.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
#LiftTheBan on work for people seeking asylum! Fundraising party 38 The Haymarket, #Sheffield Nov 22 from 5-10pm. Tickets⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lift-the-b...
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Lift The Ban Fundraiser
LTB is hosting a fundraiser! Emphasis on the fun! We’ll have top DJs, a silly raffle, and more. Join us for a dance for a great cause
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Immigration detention can happen suddenly. People need quick, reliable guidance to stay safe and connected. Share our updated KEY GUIDE on immigration detention with your community. ow.ly/LUaS50Xq6s4 #MigrationIsLife #NoOneIsIllegal #TheseWallsMustFall
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