Lucy talks to Ghassan Ghaben, a lawyer and member of the British Palestinian Committee about the Gaza Families Reunited campaign and the mutual aid group, Reviving Gaza.

Follow the links below to find out about Gaza Families Reunited, Reviving Gaza and other issues discussed in the episode.

To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter or Bluesky @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at refugeeswelcomeharingey@gmail.com
We’d love to hear from you!

Links

Reviving Gaza: water aid ‘24

Reviving Gaza Instagram page

Reviving Gaza Just Giving page

Write to your MP: Gaza family scheme

Gaza Families Reunited Instagram page

Gaza Families Reunited X page

Will my family still be alive when I wake up?

Justice, freedom and international law: a new policy framework for the UK government on Palestine

RAMFEL new report on the UK’s broken family reunion system

The BBC’s Civil War Over Gaza – Owen Jones

Gaza: 64,000 deaths due to violence between October 2023 and June 2024, analysis suggests

Traumatic Injury Mortality in the Gaza Strip from October 7, 2023, to June 30, 2024: a capture-recapture analysis

Caabu Palestine resources

100 Years Since Balfour

Marissa Begonia, Director of The Voice of Domestic Workers, speaks to Lucy about her life as a domestic worker and her campaign for domestic workers' rights.

Follow the links below to find out more about Marissa's journey and The Voice of Domestic Workers as well as issues relating to the Overseas Domestic Worker Visa and the National Referral Mechanism (NRM).

To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter or Bluesky @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at refugeeswelcomeharingey@gmail.com
We’d love to hear from you!

Links

Marissa Begonia: the invisible workforce – my fight for migrant domestic workers in the UK (Being the Story speech)

Hard Graft: work, health and rights (Wellcome Collection)

The Voice of Domestic Workers

Channel 4 News report: The domestic slaves rescued from London’s richest streets

Visa system forces care workers to stay silent on rape and abuse

UK’s richest family convicted of exploiting servants

The NRM: no substitute for workers’ rights

Kalayaan: The National Referral Mechanism – near breaking point

Immigration crackdown sees British modern slavery victims imprisoned

Unite the Union: United Migrant Workers Education Programme

Covid-19 music fundraiser for domestic workers

Lucy talks to Vincent Okosodo, an entrepreneur, campaigner and Nigerian migrant about his long and painful journey through the UK's hostile immigration system.

Follow the links below to find out more about the issues and policies mentioned in this podcast, including the mental health cost of current migration policies in the UK, and to learn more about Centaville, a Nigerian social enterprise that Vincent founded.

To learn more about Haringey Welcome’s work please visit our website at https://haringeywelcome.org/ or follow us on Twitter or Bluesky @HaringeyWelcome. You can also drop us an email at refugeeswelcomeharingey@gmail.com
We’d love to hear from you!

Links

Home Office urged to scrap long, expensive and ‘racist’ visa route

Over 60 NGOs call for urgent changes to immigration legal aid

Stemming the tide: the case for demarketising the legal aid sector

State violence and distress: the false separation between migrant justice and mental health

Trauma, mental health and migration

Centaville