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Unis Resist Border Controls opposes any complicity with border controls on British university campuses. RT=/= endorsement. #BordersKillKnowledge
May 19 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Thank you for this comment @phdstudentha because it gives us the perfect time to unpack why we use the term migrant student.

🧵 This binary idea that is employed (migrant= poor) versus rich international students is actually problematic thinking.

A few points to consider:

1. No matter what your economic status is, EVERYONE is affected the #HostileEnvironment policy in and outside of UK higher edu.
May 13 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
The current discourse from @ucu needs unpacking from a migrant students' perspective.

For years we have demanded that @ucu work with us to end #HostileEnvironment inside universities. We have asked for strike action on this matter. Have they? The answer is no.

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Image Instead of working to end the very market dynamics that are oppressing & making precarious migrant students for years, UCU moves the goal posts so that their members forget that ending #HostileEnvironment is what really matters if we want save education & society.
Dec 3, 2024 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
🔔Concerning 🇰🇷 student in the UK.

Recently marital law was lifted in South Korea after President Yoon imposed martial law earlier this afternoon & for the first time in more than 40 years.


🧵advice for university staff/academics w/ 🇰🇷 students.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn38… There are roughly 6,000 🇰🇷 students in the UK. If you are academic and/or pastoral staff at your university, you should be checking in with these students to see how they are. Their country is going through a political upheaval. Don't just sit back and collect their 💰& do nada!
Dec 2, 2024 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
On every student/work visa in the UK is the condition, "no recourse to public funds" #NRPF ➡️ how does this affect migrants & esp migrant students?

@UnisNotBorders unpacks this recent case in @guardian of #NRPF that lead to a death of a child.



🧵theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/n… As reported in @guardian, a two year old child died because the NRPF team at Newham Council decided that the mother, Balikis Adeoye, was not eligible to place her child, Mazeedat Adeoye, in foster care, while she was caring for baby brother when he required urgent heart surgery.
Oct 27, 2024 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
Over the past 48 hours, we've let the🫖 brew over #AcademicTwitter concerning the @BBCNews report of @lakshmipriyab07, a DPhil @UniofOxford student who was demoted to a masters degree.


Our 🧵will unpack some of the arguments we've seen over this case.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Before we dive into this case, a little about us:
Established in 2016, @UnisNotBorders is a grassroots, migrant-led campaign in UK higher edu working to end #HostileEnvironment & carceral border structures on campus.

Link in bio to our casework, surgery times & campaigns.
Jul 6, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Liberals need to stop. @Keir_Starmer is no hero. The #RwandaPlan came to an end thanks to campaigners, not to a politician who wanted to put tagging devices on asylum seekers. The plan was also financially unpopular within Labour because of the expenses it accrued.

Short 🧵 But make no mistake. We have the #HostileEnvironment policy in-tact & over 60+ years of xeno-racist laws. If a future politician wanted to revive 3rd country removal & had the means to do it efficiently, it could very well happen again.
Aug 16, 2023 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
This piece @LSPENCERELLIOTT for @TheTab makes very conservative arguments that harm migrant students through furthering the marketised higher education system that treats them as cash cows, while subjecting them to the whims of UK's draconian borders:

🧵 https://t.co/AgfaAKPSaxthetab.com/uk/2023/05/22/…
Image 1st, lets talk about what kind of migrant student was featured. Vedika Mandapati, a migrant student from @Cambridge_Uni, who themselves indicated that, "I’m from a very privileged situation where if I hadn’t gone here then I would have still gone to university internationally."
Aug 8, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
Yesterday @itvnews reported the case of 3 Nigerian students @SwanseaUni who have been withdrawn from their courses, have had their visas curtailed & are facing administrative removal from the UK.

Source:

How did it get to this?

🧵time. https://t.co/JVj8a5zyb3itv.com/news/wales/202…
Image If you've been following the work of @UnisNotBorders, you'll know that universities are the visa sponsors for both migrant staff & students. In other words, if you have come to the UK on a student visa, your university is your visa sponsor.
Aug 1, 2023 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Joy Gardner at the hands of immigration cops. Gardner was a mature student on a media studies course at London Guildhall University. Gardner was violently brutalised by cops that led to her death, merely for overstaying her visa.🧵 Image Joy Gardner's immigration story is related to British colonialism. Her mother, Myrna Simpson, had migrated to the UK from Jamaica in 1961 when the country was still a British colony. Simpson had intended to send for Gardner when she she achieved financial stability.
Apr 28, 2023 • 17 tweets • 7 min read
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@UnisNotBorders is deeply concerned with how UK universities are using decolonisation & climate change frameworks to police & limit certain kinds of migrant student enrolment at their respective institutions.

Here are a few examples that point to this worrying trend. In response to @SuellaBraverman’s keen desire to limit migrant students w/ families in bringing over their dependents, @SOAS has advertised “transnational” partnerships with @WitsUniversity to stop the “brain drain” in Global South countries: theguardian.com/finding-soluti… Image
Nov 27, 2022 • 16 tweets • 8 min read
From yesterday's @ObserverUK. @UnisNotBorders was cited in this piece about, Sulav Khadka, a migrant student from Nepal who was detained by UK border cops, claiming that he was a bogus student, sent to a detention centre in Scotland, & held for 10 days: theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/n…
🧵 .@UnisNotBorders stated in the piece that in the 6 years we have provided support for migrant university staff & students, we have come across cases, esp from migrant students who come from the Global South & subjected to harsh immigration questioning by UK border cops.
Nov 26, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Why focus *only* on Nigerians? Would Nick be outraged if 50,000 white Canadians brought their dependents to the UK?

Right-wing pundit, Nick Timothy, is using the 'bogus student' line to promote disastrous Tory policies that will harm working class migrant students.

Brief 🧵 Bringing dependants as a migrant student is both not easy & very expensive. One has to pay visa fees which amount to £1,538 if the dependent is applying outside of the UK. Additionally, dependents have to pay the international health surcharge fee to access the NHS.
Nov 25, 2022 • 12 tweets • 9 min read
From today's @thetimes, where migrant students might be barred from @RussellGroup institutions in order to bring down net migrant statistics.

Typical dog & whistle discourse used to marginalise migrant students. We've seen this many times before.

Short 🧵#UCURising #UCUstrike Mid-2000s the discourse of the 'bogus migrant student' took hold of the UK right-wing media, making outrageous claims that *all* migrant students were illegally entering the UK on student visas. @UKLabour responded by instituting the first forays that started #HostileEnvironment. Image
May 12, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
A 🧵about @GNDRising disruption of Home Secretary Priti Patel's talk at the Bassetlaw Conservatives Association dinner.

This🧵seeks to critically interrogate this action from the perspective of Black & WoC migrants @UnisNotBorders to develop discussion & better practices. We recognise the importance of disruptions, we also question the ethicality in putting funds into the Tory party. Dinners like this go for an excess of £400 or £4,000 a ticket. Source: mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
How much did @GNDRising pay to the Tories to disrupt their meeting?
Dec 31, 2021 • 17 tweets • 16 min read
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As @UnisNotBorders approaches another yr of organising during the Covid pandemic, we want to share highlights of what we've done in 2021 & what we hope to accomplish approaching our 6th yr of advocating for migrant university staff & students against #HostileEnvironment. January 20201

@UnisNotBorders kept the pressure by amplifying in @FT the how UK universities were putting migrant student into destitution & how #NRPF, #HostileEnvironment & marketised higher education are all harming migrant students during pandemic: ft.com/content/3ab6be…
Dec 24, 2021 • 17 tweets • 10 min read
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While the VC enjoys his Christmas, @UnisNotBorders has been assisting @USSU International Student Officer, @caituee on cases of migrant student homelessness @SussexUni. These cases are part of systemic issues including #HostileEnvironment + marketised higher education. Student A is a migrant postgrad @SussexUni with their family (partner & 3 children). They arrived in October 2021 & since, have been moving from short-term let to another w/o any stable, long-term housing. Student A & their family's mental & physical health are deteriorating.
Dec 11, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
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There have been a lot of superficial discussions re- clause 9 of the Nationality and Borders Bill which seeks to remove British citizenship without notice.

What isn't being discussed is clause 9 relation to extending UK's counter-terrorism/War on Terror laws. Firstly, clause 9 didn't come out of nowhere. During the early days of the War on Terror, @UKLabour included the deprivation of British nationality section to the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.