Campaign against Deportations
The National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns provides practical help and advice to people facing deportation, and their supporters, on how to launch and run anti-deportation protests. Some airlines, such as Virgin, have an anti-deportation policy and passengers are urged to ask about deportation policies when booking tickets with airlines.
0121 554 6947 or www.ncadc.org.uk.

Media HateWatch UK
Looks out for asylum scare stories in the national media and organises a rapid response programme. Useful for those concerned about xenophobia, particularly in relation to refugees. www.diversity-online.org.uk

No Border Movement
The main demand of the No Border movement is recognition of the human right to freedom of movement. Protests usually take place on international frontiers or at detention centres. www.noborder.org

Call for an end to Refugee Detention
Dramatic protests have been witnessed in Australia where detainees at Woomera sewed up their lips to express their despair at being detained indefinitely in a remote location. Britain currently has around 2000 immigration detainees in a range of specialist centres now called Reception

Centres and Removal Centres. This number is due to double by next year - the government has promised 4000 places in these centres. Despite a promise that no more detainees would be held in prisons after 2001, up to 100 are still there. Most detainees are men, but women and children are also being detained.

www.barbedwirebritain.org.uk.

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION

MIGRATION is a phenomenon as old as humanity itself.
In virtually all countries of Western Europe there are political parties and pressure groups opposed to continued immigration from non-Western countries. Yet, a hundred years ago, Europeans were by far the largest group of migrants in the world. Before 1800, between two and three million Europeans, hungry for land and freedom, moved to the settlement colonies in the New World and on the southern tip of Africa. After 1800 the number of European emigrants exploded to more than 60 million, and many went to North Africa, Kenya, Rhodesia, Australia and New Zealand. In the twentieth century millions of Europeans were on the move because of decolonisation and the upheavals caused by two world wars.
Perhaps the biggest forced migration in history was the uprooting of at least 16 million Africans for shipment to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth