Dissertation for MSc. Global Migrations & Social Justice exploring how local services are addressing the needs & barriers Roma communities face in accessing services within the Govanhill locality

Harriet A. de Wet (2019)

A tool that addresses the importance of inclusion, diversity, difference, and equity and how these concepts can be used in the community sector. The purpose of this resource booklet is to see how using an anti-racism framework can strengthen an organizations dedication to work towards social justice and equity.

CommunityWise (2017)

Flyer with information & links to help families raising children with more than one language

By Bilingualism Matters

This report analyses the childbirth experiences of 100 individuals supported by Amma over a two-year period. Amma’s aim in creating this report was to amplify the voices of those whose experiences of pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood so often go unheard.

Amma Birth Companions (2024)

This report details the findings and recommendations of a research project commissioned by the Glasgow Community Food Network and funded by Scottish Government. The research explored how cash-first approaches might be implemented in community food settings. Using qualitative methodologies, community food initiatives (CFIs) across Glasgow were engaged.

Delve and Glasgow Community Food Network (2024)

CRER’s new publication audits BME representation on Voluntary Sector Boards. Under-representation of BME groups on third sector boards has significant implications for racial equality. A lack of board diversity can impact decision making and governance, funding opportunities and public trust.

Coalition for Racial Equality & Rights (CRER) (2019)

Climate change, global migration and human rights are inextricably linked. As global warming advances around the world, increasing numbers of people are being displaced from their lands, livelihoods and homes, becoming “internally displaced peoples” within their own countries, for forced to migrate across international borders. And as they are displaced, access to human rights becomes an even more important challenge in the pursuit of safety, work and a new home.

National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (2018)

One really positive thing that you can do to make sure that LGBT people feel safe, welcome and included is to introduce a safe space commitment, which sets out the expectations for everyone in the space. This resource is designed to help you develop a safe space commitment and put it into practice; it also includes some useful phrases for upholding it in trickier moments.

LGBT Health and Wellbeing

This manual is an open resource that outlines RR’s commitment to hosting ethical work placements. As a free to download pdf, RR hope it can be used as a reference point for arts organisations, students and universities to consider how work placements can be conducted in non-exploitative, enriching, formative and imaginative ways.

An accessible resource giving information and challenging common misconceptions about Roma communities.

European Network Against Racism, European Roma Information Office

George Floyd’s murder at the hands of a white police officer in May 2020 sent a shockwave of grief and outrage across the world.

Over the following weeks, institutions in Scotland responded with statements committing to anti-racism.

CRER investigated progress on racial justice made by the same organisations since their Black Lives Matter statements. Organisations were approached in April 2022 and asked about their actions following their statements. We used the responses to create our report Do Black Lives Still Matter in Scotland?

Coalition Of Racial Equality and Rights (2023)

From registering with a medical centre, doctor, or dentist, to making appointments, to talking to healthcare practitioners and having treatments, accessing healthcare is a journey.

The EmBody to EmPower project consists of a group of young women who co-designed three digital and physical resources to help create a more inclusive understanding of what a positive experience of accessing healthcare is, and how young women can build the skills and confidence to self-advocate within healthcare settings.

In February 2023 LGBT Health and Wellbeing held a community consultation exploring experiences of ‘housing’ with 32 individuals supported by the organisation via the LGBT+ Refugee Project. This Report was subsequently produced by LGBT Health and Wellbeing to raise awareness of some of the key issues faced by the community members who access our LGBT+ Refugee Project here in Scotland.

LGBT Health and Wellbeing

A creative toolkit for teachers of religious education (R.E.) in secondary schools in Scotland to challenge stereotypes and misconceptions of Muslim women and communities, in collaboration with the Al Waleed Centre, University of Edinburgh.

Amina MWRC (2018)

Research recording the experiences of people who have been refused asylum and made destitute in Scotland. Coordinated by the Destitute Asylum Seeker Service, a Glasgow based project coordinated by the Refugee Survival Trust, Scottish Refugee Council, British Red Cross, University of Strathclyde Law Clinic, Glasgow Night Shelter, Castlemilk Community Church and Rehoboth Nissi Ministries.

Destitute Asylum Seeker Service (2019)

A report reviewing UK Progress on the European Union Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies.

Angela Ruskin University (2014)

A post on why we need to ensure people of colour encounter a supportive environment when they join charity boards, & how to do this – with links to further research & resources.

Getting on Board (2021)

A guide taking you through the steps of how to approach the subject of changing your board composition with your existing trustees and chair. The guide is filled with illuminating case studies and quotes and is accompanied by a downloadable resources pack.

Getting on Board (2022)

This report from The Red Cross evidences experiences of destitution among people seeking asylum and calls for comprehensive support for people seeking asylum as they arrive in the UK.

The Red Cross (2021)

This toolkit and report are the result of a project in 2022/23 supported by the Scottish Government as part of Scotland’s Volunteering Action Plan.

Make Your Mark is an ongoing campaign to make heritage volunteering for all in Scotland. It was created in 2020 as part of Our Place in Time, Scotland’s first national strategy for the historic environment.

In this guide, you will find information on:

• what's next after getting leave to remain

• what new rights you have after getting leave to remain

• what documents you need to help you access your rights

• what benefits and social security you can apply for

• what you need to open a bank account

• what your homeless rights are

• how to register with a GP and dentist

Scottish Refugee Council (2024)

Final report from a project about the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender migrants from Central Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Former Soviet Union (FSU) in Scotland.

University of Glasgow, Economic & Social Research Council (2016)

Report revealing a picture of poverty, exclusion and hardship for people seeking asylum wholly reliant on Government support payments.

Asylum Matters (2020)

This Lift The Ban coalition report shows how clear the evidence in favour of giving people seeking asylum the right to work is.

From a rise in the estimated benefit to the treasury (£97.8 million per year) to enduring public and business support and examples that show lifting the ban makes even more sense during the coronavirus pandemic – this report makes the rational, moral and financial case for the right to work.

Lift the Ban (2020)

This research note reflects on the impacts of the shift to online service delivery for voluntary and community organisations. In particular, it reports on initial findings from research being undertaken on migrant integration organisations in Quebec (Canada) and Scotland (UK).

Caitlin McMullin, Concordia University (2021)

A collaborative report from Glasgow Centre for Population Health and the University of Glasgow’s Department of Urban Studies and the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, sponsored by Glasgow Housing Association, the Scottish Government, NHS Health Scotland and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Go Well (2015)

Report of a scoping exercise on the need for greater policy capacity on migration in Scotland. Funded by Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Sarah Kyambi (2020)

After conducting community research on barriers New Scots, specifically asylum seekers, have faced when attempting to access healthcare in Scotland, JustCitizens have put together a toolkit that explains the Scottish National Healthcare System (NHS). They have translated this resources into various languages. They realise there are some languages missing and would welcome help with translation into those hard-to-reach languages. These toolkits are free for you to download, print and share with others.

JustCitizens (2023)

The purpose of the New Scots strategy is to coordinate the efforts of organisations and community groups across Scotland involved in supporting refugees, asylum seekers and communities. This report sets out an approach to support the vision of a welcoming Scotland.

COSLA, Scottish Refugee Council, Scottish Government (2018)

A companion to the short film No Radio Silence, the e-book aims at supporting teachers and community leaders in delivering meaningful group activities toward the understanding of issues involving refugees and asylum seekers in the UK.

The resource proposes group conversations and practical activities, providing definitions of terms and discussing experiences that most refugees and asylum seekers go through before and after arriving in the UK. Most of the topics within this resource can be matched with the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence.

Govanhill Baths and Unity Sisters (2022)

‘Our Rights, Our Communities’ was a partnership project between Govanhill Baths Community Trust, Unity Sisters and Milk Café. This project was delivered at a time where New Scots are suffering severe institutional racism, discourses on refugee rights are moving further to the right, and government policy continues to strip refugees of their human rights.

The report includes educational resources, recommendations, findings, and reflections on partnership working and collaboration.

Govanhill Baths, Community Trust, Unity Sisters, & Milk Cafe (2023)

A self-care manual designed to support you in establishing and maintaining an approach to self-care that fits with your unique life circumstances, strengths, challenges and needs.

This manual is for all women. However, it has been developed with the following audiences in mind:

- Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women

- women who have experienced trauma and/or domestic abuse

- women who would like to become group facilitators

Amina Muslim Women’s Resource Centre (2017)

Shift Sands Film & Training Toolkit offers a coherent understanding of coercive control and how to effectively support victims.

The training resource illustrates to participants what constitutes coercive control through exploring warning signs, the impact it can have on a victim’s mental health and the role we can play as a society in order to eradicate domestic abuse.

The training toolkit is designed for organisations, educational establishments, voluntary sector and community groups to raise awareness of Coercive Control with their staff, volunteers, members and service users.

Glasgow Women’s Library (2021)

This resource is intended to help young people intervene in situations where someone is the target of hate behaviour. It is aimed at 11-16 year olds but could be used as a training tool for peer educators and youth workers. Activities to go along with the resource can be found here.

Youth Link Scotland – Action on Prejudice (2019)

Resource from Imix for organisation and individuals about positively influencing conversations about immigration and how to engage different audiences.

Imix/Emma Harrison 2018

The Right to Remain Toolkit is free to use, and it’s for people who want to learn more about the legal process, or a particular part of the legal process. You might be making an application or are thinking about it; you might be helping someone else to do so.

Right to Remain (2021)

A report from Ando Glaso looking at the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Roma community in Glasgow.

Ando Glaso 2021 – Eva Kourova, Ionut Cioarta, Jana Puskova, Leon Puska, Dana Balogova, Mania Michalewicz, David Balog

This resource – the young person’s asylum guide – has been developed by Croydon Council and Right to Remain.

It includes an Overview of the Stages of a Young Person’s Asylum Journey Including;

Right to Remain (2021)

Poem in Scots about Dumchapel school girls’ campaign against asylum seeker detention & deportation – with teaching resources from the Educational Institute of Scotland.

Euan Girvan / EIS (2020)

A resource designed to enable practitioners to raise awareness and understanding of the history, culture and traditions of the Scottish Gypsy/Traveller community and work with young people to identify and seek solutions to the key ‘flash points’ [or conflicts] that often occur between Gypsy/Travellers and the ‘settled’ community.

Article 12 in Scotland (2017)

Tips on how to be an active and inclusive LGBT+ ally.

Pride Outside

Towards the end of 2019, the asylum accommodation and support system was almost fatally disrupted by the transition from one set of government contracts to another. People seeking asylum began to experience unacceptable and entirely avoidable destitution. Wake Up Call details what went wrong and our suggestions for how the Home Office can go about mending this broken system.

Refugee Action (2020)

New Arrival? Learning to live in a different county can be difficult. Welcome to Scotland: A Guide to Scots Law can help you understand the everyday rules and laws that will affect you in your new home. Available in English as well as the following languages: Amharic, Arabic, Farsi, Lithuanian, Oromo, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Tigrinya, Urdu

New College Lanarkshire, Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service and Police Scotland (2016)