John Grayson is an independent researcher and adult educator. He is an activist and campaigner with SYMAAG (South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group). He writes regularly for openDemocracy and for the Institute of Race Relations news service www.irr.org.uk
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Published in: Shine A Light‘How do we get out if there’s a fire?’ In Yorkshire, G4S tenants live in fearSecurity company G4S housed six families with babies and toddlers in a fire-trap hostel in Halifax.
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Published in: Shine A LightBehave or get deported, says G4SEXCLUSIVE: The world’s biggest security company, landlord to asylum-seekers, threatens tenants with expulsion from the UK.
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Published in: Shine A Light‘People come in here normal, but they get ill.’ Protesting against deaths at a UK migrant jailIntrusive police surveillance deployed against peaceful protestors at Morton Hall. (See also: Child held for 151...
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Published in: Shine A LightFail, fail, and have another government contractSecurity contractors G4S and Serco and housing company Clearsprings have for years supplied UK asylum seekers with...
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Published in: Shine A LightWelcome to my asylum home. I’d offer you a seat — if I had oneMeanwhile a parliamentary inquiry into asylum housing lumbers on over ten months . . . and today in Leeds the Home...
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Published in: Shine A LightRats in the yard: 4 years of UK asylum housing by G4SToday, yet again, a Parliamentary committee will hear how commercial landlords are failing asylum seeker tenants....