Three sisters, Weston super Mare, 1989
Three sisters, refugees from Vietnam who arrived in the UK on a family reunion programme.
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Victoria Square, Birmingham, March 2011
Women demonstrating against the cuts to ESOL English classes. The demonstration was outside Birmingham town hall and was organised by the TUC and the UCU.
Turkish demonstration against arbitrary deportations, Dalston Lane, 1984
Many Turkish people settled in Hackney in the 1970s and 1980s, they worked in the rag trade, catering and grocery shops, often having to put up with awful working and housing conditions. Immigration officials and the police would raid these sweatshops, detain those who had overstayed their visas and then seek to deport them. Local communities would be outraged when this happened: schools would mount campaigns to persuade the Home Office not to deport a parent, some families were given refuge by the local church and support groups would take the issues to politicians and trade unions.
Tamil women, Walthamstow, 1990
Women from the Tamil refugee community lobby a council meeting in Walthamstow as part of a campaign for better housing.