Refugee Action

We will no longer be posting on or using X. Please find us instead on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/refuge…, and our other social media platforms.

We’re ready to open a new chapter of digital communication, where we hope we don’t have to block people from replying to our posts about the people we work with due to the risk of abuse. We want to build a movement with people who want to end the hostile environment for refugees. If that’s you, we’ll see you in other spaces.

We acknowledge that no social media platform is perfect – and there are other platforms where racism and hate still exists. But for now, X is no longer a good way to communicate with our community and build our movement.

We will no longer be posting on or using X. Please find us instead on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/refuge…, and our other social media platforms.

Please note, our supporter care response times will be slower than usual today and tomorrow (November 11-12). This is because Refugee Action is hosting an all-staff conference, where many colleagues will be attending and away from the phonelines.

People need safe routes to reach the UK, so they don’t have to put their lives at risk in dangerous journeys. Hostile border policies based on “security" have always failed. They ultimately result in more people dying in the channel - mostly people of colour from countries affected by British Colonial rule. There is another way. Our Head of Campaigns, Asli, tells LBC @LBCNews

In the face of hatred, racism and walls, we will rise together and build bridges. We are stronger when we act as one voice. Sign and share the petition: act.refugee-action.org.uk/page/154730/pe…

We need our government to recognise the role Donald Trump plays in this, and stand up to any racist, anti-refugee policies he enacts.

Along with hundreds of thousands of you, we stand with refugees and always will. The news that Donald Trump will be America’s president is terrifying. We won’t sugarcoat it. For those of you who met the news with anger, frustration and fear - we’re with you, we feel it too.

Want to stand with us? Read and share the report here: refugee-action.org.uk/racism/

Thank you to our speakers Wilson Nkurunziza, Local Labour party councillor for Salford, Thirza Amina Asanga-Rae, 2024 Green party prospective parliamentary candidate, Catherine Lebadou, activist and member of the RAS Voice Group, and the Chair of Refugee Action's National Steering Group and Millie Montiel McCann, linguist working on migration and racism, and Research Associate at the Runnymede Trust.

We need to talk about racism in the asylum system. In Black History Month, we launched our Racial Justice Report in Manchester. The event was led with @VoiceRas - a group of refugees who are all experts in the UK’s hostile asylum system because of their own experience of it.

Let’s start talking about people and their lives. About safety. About welcome. It’s time to increase safe routes, tackle the causes of displacement, and secure people’s right to safety when they get here.

And yet today’s headlines are about boats, hostility and security. Increased security does not work and ultimately results in more people dying in the channel, mostly people of colour from countries affected by British Colonial rule. This is racial injustice in action.

Is it that radical? A record number of people have died in the channel this year. But they are not just numbers, they are people who are fleeing war and persecution. They are mothers, fathers, siblings and children.

Pete and our Race for Refugees team have raised a whopping £27,000 for refugees seeking safety. Thank you so much to everyone who’s been part of this journey!

Pete set himself the challenge of running 50 miles for Race for Refugees, during a pause in treatment for Stage 4 bowel cancer. We’re thrilled to share that he reached his goal five days early! #RaceforRefugees

Absolutely inspirational from Pete who is fundraising for Refugee Action by running 60 miles in between bouts of chemotherapy. expressandstar.com/news/local-hub…