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I hope by being a member I can receive primary information on issues surrounding migration.

I hope this can empower me to be more informed to comment, participate and engage with issues involving the causes, impacts and long term effects of migration on different stakeholders.

Having migrated myself and having had to assimilate into a different environment it is important to continually empathise and support those in a similar position.

From: Taurainashe Manonge

Published: 04 November 2020
I work with asylum seekers and refugees in Burnley in Lancashire and with a charity called New Neighbours Together and we believe that be being welcoming and open minded we can build a better community together for everyone!

From: Simon Bains

Published: 23 September 2020
Hello! My interest in 'immigration' started when in 1967 my husband and I emigrated to Canada. An as immigrant, with a small baby, I found it a very difficult situation. My husband was working while I suffered the intense Canadian winters stuck inside with a baby and no-one to take away the loneliness. When we returned to the UK 3 years later, I immediately felt a rapport with anyone who was themselves not a native of the UK. I was also struck by so many people's intolerance towards immigrants. Some years later we became volunteers with the Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture (now Freedom from Torture) and once a year were very happy to receive clients of the MF in our home for a week's holiday. Through this we developed happy relationships and much deep knowledge of the problems of being immigrants in the UK where they were unable to return to their homeland (unlike ourselves in Canada). Three of the families we met this way have become extensions of our family; we joined Liliane in her Citizenship Ceremony a year or so ago; Abdi is like a son to us, his problems may never be over but he has taught us so much and we have such fun together; we were at a Kurdish wedding of a girl who first came to our house aged 8 and is now an A & E doctor. Now living in Surrey, in retirement, I am lucky enough to have joined a band of volunteers involved with the seven Syrian families who have been housed by Guildford Council under the Government's Syrian Vulnerable Families project. Through this scheme, we have been with our families as they settle in and adapt to life in the UK - they are now safe but that does not mean that life is simple. We help out in many ways and our lives continue to be enriched by them. So I join JCWI because I care.

From: Gillian Cox

Published: 11 September 2020
Immigration is one of the unfairness set of rules in this country and I am happy to support changes to these rules.
Adrian Dean.

From: Adrian Dean

Published: 25 August 2020
I am part of the Windrush cohort from a Commonwealth country . I was prevented from returning to the United Kingdom between July 2012 and 30 April 2017. I still have no recieved any compensation. I am still waiting for a decision
This siruation has destroyed my life and my families life.

From: FRED OBRO

Published: 30 June 2020
Whist I'm not sure being part of JCWI can help me in a direct way, it does make us feel less alone,isolated and often lost in facing a near totally deaf,uncaring and often brutal machine of bureaucratic,nonsensical and inhuman legislation.
Unable to meet the spouse requirement income level ,therefore cruelly separated from my wife and both going through the daily anxiety and general ill effects on health this entails......What God has joined together let no man put asunder.....indeed.
Thank you for lending us a voice.

From: John Jones

Published: 23 May 2020
Indian Workers Association Southall is very pleased to be a member of JCWI.
The reason why we become member of JCWI is that Indian Workers Association and JCWI has a long history.
Indian WOrkers Association Southall played an immense role to built JCWI.
if you will see history, Vishnu Dutt Sharma was a founder of JCWI.

From: RAIBRINDER Singh

Published: 08 May 2020

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