Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants

19/06/2026

This week, we came together with our community as part of Refugee Week.

We shared food, organised and took part in a collaborative climate justice workshop, and watched Mahdi Fleifel’s powerful documentary on Palestinian displacement, memory, resistance and survival.

At a time when the world is becoming increasingly hostile to people on the move, we are creating spaces of solidarity, and seeking to strengthen our collective knowledge and power.

See you at the next one.
And tomorrow, we will be at the Day of Action to break the border, starting at 2pm in Bedford Square, Central London.

19/06/2026

Join us this Saturday and stand up for migrants’ rights.

📍 Bedford Square, by the British Museum, WC1B 3HH
🗓 Saturday 20 June
⏰ 2pm

People across the country are taking action to and challenge the hostile environment this Saturday.

Come along, bring your friends, and help build a movement for justice.

19/06/2026

Andy Burnham has won the Makerfield by-election. As he challenges Starmer for party leader to become the next Prime Minister, we will resist his racist immigration polices all the way.

Join us tomorrow for national Break The Borders Day of Action.

16/06/2026

💥Join us this Saturday and stand up for migrants rights!

🗓️SAT 20 JUNE
📍BEDFORD SQUARE BY THE BRITISH MUSEUM, WC1B 3Hh
⏰2PM

Plus actions all over the country to on Saturday. Follow for more info.

15/06/2026

As then Minister for Immigration, Robert Jenrick was at the head of a Victorian-era fascistic system responsible for the cruel detention and death from diphtheria of Hussein Haseeb Ahmed.

Hussein, like hundreds of others, came here seeking safety, but instead was imprisoned in camps fit for neither humans nor animals.

Robert Jenrick showed no accountability for this horrific incident, and now seeks to return to government, shapeshifting from Tory to Reform, but bringing the same racism, fascism and inhumane governing record.

In September 2024 the then home secretary, Yvette Cooper, decided to downgrade Cleverly’s inquiry from statutory to independent, meaning it has fewer powers to compel witnesses to attend. This Labour government is also complicit in the failure to bring justice to those accountable.

Former immigration minister criticised by inquiry chair for failing to give statement about ‘wretched’ Manston site

15/06/2026

JCWI warmly invites you to join us for a community potluck and film screening on Wednesday 17 June at 6pm, as part of Islington Refugee Week.

This year’s Refugee Week theme is Courage — and at a time when migrants, refugees and our communities continue to face hostility and division, we want to create space to come together, share food, stories and solidarity.

The event will take place in Islington N1, closest station Caledonian Road & Barnsbury. The exact location will be shared after registration. We’ll be screening the powerful 2012 documentary A World Not Ours by Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel.

The film follows the lives of Mahdi’s family and friends in Ain El-Helweh, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon where he spent much of his childhood before his family settled in Denmark. Through years of video diaries and conversations, Fleifel offers a deeply personal and unfiltered portrait of displacement, memory, resistance and survival.

12/06/2026

Trillionaires should not exist.

11/06/2026

Organise community defence NOW. This is not an isolated incident. Attacks on racialised communities are happening all across Britain.

Join or your local Anti-Raids network. Reach out and protect your racialised neighbours. Organise local spaces of mutual support. Mobilise in numbers to confront and block fascists on the streets.

We need personal connection and real life organising to defeat a global far right funded and resourced by billionaires.

10/06/2026

Our response to racist pogroms in Belfast.

10/06/2026

Our Executive Director, Lavanya Pallapi:

"This violence against racialised people, particularly Muslims and migrants, has been fanned by government, media and the state, funded by corporate actors and billionaires.

The active participation of governments in the normalisation of fascist and racist violence means it is up to communities and individuals to keep us safe.

At this time, we must:

- Organise community defence

- Provide material solidarity offering shelter and support to racialised groups under attack

- Build Antiraids networks

- Call out and oppose state complicity

We support local groups such as End Deportations Belfast, Anaka Collective, Participation and the Practice of Rights, Community Action Tenants Union, Law Centre Northern Ireland and national community organising efforts mobilising locally such as Anti-Racist Movement and Anti Raids Network."

This violence against racialised people, particularly Muslims and migrants, has been fanned by government, media and the state, funded by corporate actors and billionaires. The active participation of…