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Train-the-Trainer seminar introduction

1. Provide the basics of how to set up an anti-deportation campaign
2. Encourage setting up a local anti-deportation campaign group / strengthen existing groups
3. Some level of involvement in setting up some local anti-deportation campaigns
4. Stimulate local anti-deportation activities
5. Empowerment of asylum seekers / reversal of deskilling effect of existing “in limbo”

Understanding the “asylum process”

1. What happens when asylum seeks flee their home and the journey to a place of safety
2. Entering the UK
3. Claiming asylum and the asylum determination process, including NAM (the New Asylum Model), detained Fast-Track, and NSA (non-suspensive appeals)
4. Access to housing, financial support, healthcare and education
5. Homelessness, destitution and living “in limbo”
6. Detention and how/why people get detained
7. Deportation and what happens to deportees

Establishing a “legal strategy” for a campaign

1. Identifying what stage of the “legal process” an asylum seeker is at using the above-mentioned flow charts
2. Understanding why the asylum claim has failed
3. Identifying what evidence has been considered and what further evidence could be obtained
4. Evidence sources and resources
5. Identifying ways to get the asylum claim back into the legal process
6. Consider other routes to safety

Tailoring an appropriate campaigning

1. How to tailor a campaign around the “legal” strategy
2. Building a campaign support group around the asylum seeker’s circumstances / position
3. Defining the type of campaign (early in the legal process, late in the legal process, from within detention, non-public campaign)

What is an anti-deportation campaign

1. What we should know about the Home Office
2. Why have an anti-deportation campaign ?
3. What is the purpose of a campaign ? (avoid deportation, get back into legal process, enable the asylum seeker to survive)
4. What is meant by a “public” campaign ?
5. Is a campaign guaranteed to work ?
6. What are the potential risks and benefits of running a campaign ?
7. What a campaign could mean for your personal life
8. It is your decision whether or not to have a campaign
9. How does a campaign affect my legal case ? Could a campaign harm my case?
10. Your campaign - personal support
11. When should I start a campaign ?
12. Who is responsible for the campaign
13. Who should be in the campaign group ?

Figuring out the best style / orientation of the campaign

1. What links does the asylum seeker have now
2. Political “flavour”

What activities could an anti-deportation campaign include ?

• Petitions
• Model Letters
• Individual Letters of Support
• Postcards
• Getting Petitions, Individual Letters of Support, Model Letters / postcards to the Home Office

• Your MP’s involvement
• Examples of what your MP could do to help progress your case
• How to engage your MP
• Involvement of other parliamentarians

• Public events
• Public meetings
• Demonstrations
• Building support

• Local media
• National media

• Taking the campaign global

Establishing the anti-deportation campaign

1. Acertaining the facts of the case / gathering documentation
2. Relevance of the accuracy of the asylum claim
3. Set the “legal strategy”
4. Set the style / direction of the campaign
5. Establish a campaign support group
6. Skills and resources within the campaign support group
7. Look at the anti-deportation campaign ckeck-list
8. Agree an Action Plan
9. Anticipate “best-case” and “worst-case” scenarios + contingencies
10. Won a battle ?  Don’t relax !
11. Produce basic written material
12. Produce basic banners, placard, displays

Advice and support for anti-deportation campaigns

1. The National Coalition of Anti-Deportations
2. Other groups and organisations
3. Resources

Think about the most appropriate role for you

1. What on-going support can you realistically provide after a workshop ?
2. Do you have the appropriate experience, knowledge and energy ?
3. Ensure you know your potential audience and their care-abouts

Before you give the workshop

1. Set yourself realistic expectations
2. Consider language issues
3. Location – go where the need is and avoid logistical barriers
4. Get funding if you can for subsidised travel costs and refreshments
5. Choosing the venue / “host” organisation
6. Publicity
7. Materials

Delivering your anti-deportation campaign workshop

1. Explain the purpose of workshop
2. Explain what your role will be after the workshop
3. Set your audience’s expectations
4. Provide recent background information / context
5. Ice-breakers, getting people’s confidence / trust
6. Listening and questioning techniques
7. Handling difficult situations
8. Anticipating and dealing with issues
9. Use appropriate language

Train-the-Trainer resources

• Train-the-Trainer website
• Materials available
• Other places of support
• Ongoing NCADC support
• Train The Trainer network
• Train-the-Trainer “buddies”

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