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24.05.2008
Campaign Information Stall in Oxford:
Come and visit our Campaign to Close Campsfield Information Stall this
Saturday, 24th May. The stall will be by St. Michael's Church,
Cornmarket, Oxford from 11am to 1pm.
19.05.2008
Government Announces Many More Immigration Detention
Places:
Immigration minister Liam Byrne has announced the creation of between
1,300 and 1,500 extra immigration detention places, including a new
centre at Bicester in Oxfordshire.
BBC report on the announcement.
26.01.2008
Bike Rides Resume:
Bike rides to the monthly Campsfield Demo are to resume in January
2008. Campaigners meet at Martyrs' Memorial, St Giles, Oxford at 11am
on the last Saturday of the month. See the events page for more information. Why not
join us?
24.11.2007
Campsfield Monitor:
Read the latest Campsfield
Monitor available as a PDF.
Conditions in Campsfield, the Scandal
of the Immigration Courts, Migrant Detention in the UK, Housing for
the Campsfield Site? and other news stories, plus the groups who
helping detained migrants locally and how you can help them.
10.02.2006
Expansion Plans Update:
Cherwell District Council rejected planning
permission for the Home Office to expand Campsfield House in 2004.
The proposal was to be the subject of a public inquiry in 2005. Now,
the Home Office is carrying out a wider review of the Immigration
Removal Centre estate. If the proposals for the expansion of
Campsfield are to proceed, there may be an inquiry later in 2006.
27.09.2004
Planning Proposal Rejected :
Cherwell District Council have unanimously rejected planning
permission for the Home Office to expand Campsfield House.
The Campaign to Close Campsfield is delighted with this
result. Sadly this doesn't prevent the Home Office plans
altogether as the Home Office are able to override the
decision of the local planning authority in this case. It
is likely to at least delay the expansion.
23.10.2003
Shocking Government U-Turn on Decision to Close Campsfield :
On 7th February 2002 David Blunkett, Home Secretary, announced
in a speech to the House of Commons that Campsfield
House would close: "I can also confirm that I intend to
close Campsfield House. This outdated centre is no longer
appropriate in the 21st century. These places will be
transferred to the new high-standard removal
centres."
Now the Home Office has announced that Campsfield should not
close, but instead be expanded from 180 places to 290.
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BACKGROUND
INFO ON CAMPSFIELD
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Why close Campsfield?
Immigration procedure
In detention
Institutional
Racism
Starving refugees
out of Britain
Case study
History
of immigration legislation
Campsfield Nine
Trial Highlights
Right to Work
The History of the
Campaign
Social Exclusion - the case of
refugees and asylum seekers : Article by Liz Peretz
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