Resources & documents

• Immigration guidance
• Know your Rights Guide 2020 – Migrant Rights’ Network
• Brexit – Cómo probar tu status luego del Brexit (español)
• Brexit – Como demonstrar meu status após Brexit (portugues)
• Brexit – Qué necesita saber como ciudadano de la UE que vive en el Reino Unido (español)
• Brexit – O que precisa saber enquanto cidadao da UE a viver no Reino Unido (Portugues)
• Brexit – Todo lo que deben saber los ciudadanos de la tercera edad de la UE que viven en el Reino Unido (español)
• Brexit – O que precisa de saber enquanto cidadao idoso da UE a viver no Reino Unido (portugues)
• Brexit – Solicitud de residencia para europeos y sus familiares que residen en el Reino Unido (EU Settlement Scheme) – Guía para completar la aplicación
• Brexit – Pedido de residência para europeus e seus familiares residentes no Reino Unido (EU Settlement Scheme) – Guia para preencher o formulário
• Manual de educación
• Aspectos más importantes en el proceso de adaptación – Welcome pack
• Conozca sus derechos laborales
• Cómo registrarse en el Médico General (GP) (Spanish-English)
• Como se registrar no médico (GP) (Portuguese-English)
• Derecho a apoyo en el Reino Unido – Mecanismo de Derivación para Víctimas de Trata y Explotación – NRM (FLEX) – Español
• Derechos y opciones de las víctimas de trata en el Reino Unido – NRM (FLEX) – Español
• Direito de Apoio Dentro do Reino Unido – Mecanismo Nacional para Lidar com Vítimas de Tráfico Humano (FLEX) – Portuguese
• Opções e direitos legais das vítimas do tráfico de pessoas no Reino Unido (FLEX) – Portuguese

By LAWRS

• Behind closed doors. Experiences of Latin American domestic workers in the UK, 2023.
• The Right to Healthcare 2023.
• Toolkit for unions – Sexual Harassment in the Workplace – Part 1, 2023.
• Toolkit for unions – Sexual Harassment in the Workplace – Part 2, 2023.
• Preventing and Addressing Abuse and Exploitation: A Guide for Police and Labour Inspectors Working with Migrants, 2022.
• The Unheard Workforce: Experiences of Latin American migrant women in cleaning, hospitality and domestic work, 2019.
• The Right to be Believed: Migrant women facing violence against women and girls (VAWG) in the ‘hostile immigration’ environment in London, 2019.
• The Right to be Believed: Migrant women facing violence against women and girls (VAWG) in the ‘hostile immigration’ environment in London – Key Findings, 2019.
• LAWRS 35th Anniversary Report, 2018.
• We can’t fight in the dark: Violence Against Women and Girls among Brazilians in London, King’s College London, 2018.
• ‘Não se pode lutar no escuro’: Violência Contra Mulheres e Meninas Brasileiras em Londres, 2018.
• Latin Americans migrating from Europe to the UK: barriers to accessing public services and welfare, University of Leeds and LAWRS, 2015.
• No Longer Invisible: the Latin American Community in London, McIlwaine, Cock, and Linneker, Queen Mary University, 2011.

Collaborations

• Worker Engagement in Human Rights Due Diligence: Learnings from a Pilot in Outsourced Cleaning, 2024.
• “So I decided to carry on…”: The Continuum of Exploitation in Practice, LEAG, 2024
• Shadow Report on the Implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence (Istanbul Convention), VAWG sector, 2023.
• Listen to us!, Communication Barriers Working Group, 2023.
• Opportunity Knocks: improving responses to labour exploitation with secure reporting, LEAG, 2020.
• Detaining Victims: human trafficking and the UK immigration detention system, LEAG, 2019.
• Diverse Communities Health Voice – Community research 2016/2017 – Black and minority ethnic groups accessing services in Islington, 2017.
• Position Paper: Lost in Transition: Brexit & Labour Exploitation, LEAG, 2017.
• Face Her Future European Union (Withdrawal) Bill second reading briefing 7 & 11 September 2017, Fawcett – Face Her Future, 2017.
• Supporting Brazilian Women in London: Service Provision for Survivors of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), Queen Mary Univesity, 2017.
• Unpaid Britain: wage default in the British labour market, Middlesex University, 2017.
• Haringey VAWG Harmful Practice Steering Group Report, Haringey London, 2017.
• Supporting Brazilian Women in London: Service Provision for Survivors of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), Yara Evans and Cathy McIlwaine, Queen Mary University, 2017.
• Black and minority ethnic groups accessing services in Islington, Diverse Communities Health Voice, 2017.
• Latin Americans in Southwark: Service access and provision, ESRC Knowledge Exchange Fellowship, 2017.
• Latin Americans in Southwark: A census analysis report, COMPAS, University of Oxford, 2017.
• Position Paper: Labour Compliance to Exploitation and the Abuses In-between, LEAG, August 2017.
• Improving the Identification and Support of Victims of Trafficking for Labour Exploitation in the EU, FLEX, 2016.
• Joint Civil Society Report to the United Nations, British Institute of Human Rights, 2016.
• Labour Compliance to Exploitation and the Abuses in-between, FLEX, 2016.
• Towards Visibility – Full report, Queen Mary University, 2016.
• Towards Visibility – Executive summary, Queen Mary University, 2016.
• Flex: Preventing trafficking for labour exploitation, 2014.
• The invisible workforce: Employment practices in the cleaning sector, 2014.
• Latin Americans: a case for better access to sexual health services, 2014.
• The changing labour market 2: women, low pay and gender equality in the emergency recovery, 2014.
• Southwark health watch report 2014
• Beyond the labels – Imkaan, 2013.
• Shadow City: Exposing human trafficking in everyday London, 2013.
• Migrants in low pay, low skilled job: barriers and solutions to learning English in London, 2013.
• Exploring the inter generational transmission of human well-being: The case of Latin American migrant mothers and their daughters in London, UK, 2013.
• CEDAW shadow report, 2013. 
• Strategies to end double violence against undocumented women, PICUM, 2012.
• No Longer Invisible Report, 2011. 
• No Longer Invisible findings, 2011.

By LAWRS

• Home Office and BEIS’ – Call for evidence: Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2024 to 2025, September 2023.
• Public Bill Committee – Call for Evidence: Victims and Prisoners Bill, LAWRS and SUMW – VAWG, June 2023.
• Public Bill Committee – Call for Evidence: Victims and Prisoners Bill – Modern slavery, June 2023.
• Home Affairs Committee – Call for Evidence: Human Trafficking, March 2023.
• Home Affairs Committee – Call for Evidence: Policing Priorities, October 2022.
• Justice Committee – Call for Evidence: Pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft Victims Bill, June 2022.
• Home Office and BEIS’ – Call for evidence: Labour Market Enforcement Strategy 2023 to 2024, May 2022.
• Ministry of Justice’s Consultation on Human Rights Act Reform: A Modern Bill of Rights, March 2022.
• Ministry of Justice’s Consultation on the Victims’ Bill – Delivering justice for victims. February 2022.
• Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC)’s Consultation on Police and Crime Plan 2021-25, January 2022.
• Public Bill Committee – Nationality and Borders Bill, November 2021.
• APPG Inquiry into Mental Health and Domestic Abuse, September 2021.
• Domestic Abuse Act statutory guidance, September 2021.
• Law Pay Commission – Consultation on April 2022 National Minimum Wage rates, June 2021.
• Home Office, New Plan for Immigration, May 2021.
• Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy – Support in the workplace for victims of domestic abuse, September 2020.
• Women and Equalities Committee – Unequal impact: Coronavirus (Covid-19) and the impact on people with protected characteristics, June 2020.
• Women and Equalities Committee Consultation on Sexual Harassment in the workplace, 2018.
• Draft Hon Frank Field MP into long-term support for victims of modern slavery, 2018.
• Adult Modern Slavery Protocol for local authorities, 2018.
• Mayor of London’s ‘Good Work Standard’ call for evidence, 2017.
• Time Night Economy call for evidence submission, 2017.
• Victim’s Commissioner Consultation, 2017.

In collaboration

• LEAG Submission to House of Lords Select Committee on the Modern Slavery Act 2015: Call for evidence on the impact and effectiveness of the 2015 Modern Slavery Act, April 2024
• ELAN Response to consultation on Introducing Fees in the Employment Tribunal, March 2024
• Detention Taskforce submission to ICIBI Call for evidence: An inspection of the Immigration Enforcement Competent Authority, February 2024
• Joint Submission to the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities ‘Open Consultation on Ethnic Disparities and Inequality in the UK’. November, 2020.
• CLAUK’s submission to the Women and Equalities Committee call for evidence ‘Unequal impact? Coronavirus and BAME people’, July 2020.
• CLAUK’s letter to Public Health England about COVID-19 and the Latin American community, 2020.
• CLAUK’s Response to the HIV Commission call for written evidence, 2020.
• FLEX and LAWRS response to the Government Equalities Office Consultation on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, October 2019.
• LEAG Submission to the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration call for evidence: ‘Adults at Risk’ in immigration detention, February 2019.
• LEAG submission to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy consultation on a Single Enforcement Body for employment rights, October 2019.
• LEAG submission to the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery on the gendered dimensions of contemporary forms of slavery, its causes and consequences, May 2018.
• LEAG – Responses to questionnaire on the gender dimensions of contemporary forms of slavery, its causes and consequences (Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery), 2018.
• FLEX/LEAG Joint submission to the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration in response to call for evidence: an inspection of how the Home Office is tackling illegal working, September 2018.
• LEAG Response to the UK Director of Labour Market Enforcement Consultation: Informing Labour Market Enforcement, Strategy 2018/19, 2017.
• Latin Americans: a case for better access to sexual health services: Granada, L. and Paccoud, V., 2014.
• Family Migration Inquiry, Latin American Women’s Rights Service written submission to the APPG on migration, 2013.
• CLAUK’s response to Hackney Council’s single equality scheme consultation, 2013.
• CLAUK’s response to Healthwatch Haringey consultation, 2013.
• Sustaining services ensuring fairness, 2013.
• CLAUK’s response to South London Healthcare Trust consultation, 2012.

•  A Joint Briefing on Ensuring Safety and Dignity for Migrant Workers in the UK, July 2024
• Immigration Enforcement Competent Authority Briefing, Detention Taskforce, July 2024
• A Joint Briefing on Amendments to Protect Migrant Victims of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) and Modern Slavery, Report Stage and Third Reading, House of Lords, April 2024.
• Victims and Prisoners Bill: Committee Stage Briefing, House of Lords, Jan 2024.
• Victims and Prisoners Bill House of Lords Second Reading Briefing Joint briefing on behalf of Violence Against Women Girls (VAWG) organisations, Dec 2023.
• A Joint Briefing on Amendments to Protect Migrant Victims of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), Second Reading, House of Lords, Dec 2023.
• Victims and Prisoners Bill: Report Stage Joint Briefing, House of Commons, Nov 2023.
• Victims and Prisoners Bill: Report Stage, House of Commons, Nov 2023.
• Victims and Prisoners Bill: Second Reading Joint Briefing, House of Commons, May 2023.
• Safety for Migrant Workers: the case for safe reporting mechanisms, November 2022.
• Nationality and Borders Bill. Citizenship rights. Registration fees, March 2022.
• Nationality and Borders Bill: Secure reporting- key to safety, justice, and public order, February 2022.
• Nationality and Borders Bill. Amendment 140 “Victims of domestic abuse: data-sharing for immigration purposes”, February 2022.
• Joint response to the “Home Office and Police data-sharing arrangements on migrant victims and witnesses of crime with insecure immigration status”, February 2022.
• SBS and LAWRS joint response to the Migrant Victims of Domestic Violence Review, September 2020.
• Domestic Abuse Bill Briefing on Safe Reporting Mechanisms and End to Data-Sharing. House of Lords , September 2020.
• Immigration Bill 2020: Second Reading Briefing, July 2020.
• Data-Sharing with the Home Office for immigration control Freedom of Information Requests, July 2020.

• The Independent – Police ‘failing’ deaf and migrant sexual assault victims, report finds (26/04/23)
• The Detail – UK police referred sexually exploited children and victims of domestic abuse to immigration authorities (05/03/23)
• The New Statesman – Thousands of crime victims face deportation after calling police (09/12/22)
• The New Statesman – Police report hundreds of crime victims a month to immigration service (27/06/22)
• BBC Mundo – La incertidumbre de los latinoamericanos con pasaporte europeo en Reino Unido que no se regularizaron a tiempo tras el Brexit (13/07/21)
• The Independent – ‘Not a single minute of peace’: The increasing numbers of pregnant migrant women being made homeless (05/05/21)
• Eastern Eye – MPs ‘wasted the chance to protect migrant women’ (22/04/21)
• Bylines Times – ‘LANDMARK’ DOMESTIC ABUSE BILL Does Not Protect Vulnerable Migrant Women (16/04/2021)
• The I – Migrant women need equality from the Domestic Abuse Bill too – they are not receiving equal protection (13/04/21)
• The I – The Domestic Abuse Bill wouldn’t protect migrants and Universal Credit claimants (9/03/21)
• Metro – Migrant domestic abuse victims ‘turned away from everywhere’ during pandemic  (22/02/2021)
• The Telegraph – How migrant women have become the forgotten victims of Britain’s domestic abuse crisis (9/02/2021)
• The Independent – ‘I guess this means it is okay for me to be violated’ – migrant women have been forgotten in the domestic abuse bill (9/02/2021)
• The Prisma – Covid-19: Immigrants and vaccine access (08/02/2021)
• Politics Home – The Government Has Been Warned That Modern Slavery Could Be Surging During The Coronavirus Pandemic (25/09/2020)
• Foreign Policy – Britain’s Domestic Abuse Bill Still Leaves Migrants at Risk (26/08/2020)
• Human Rights Watch – UK Failing Domestic Abuse Victims in Pandemic (06/08/2020)
• Marie Claire – The Domestic Abuse Bill isn’t ‘groundbreaking’ if it leaves migrant women out (09/07/2020)
• The Lead – Discriminating against migrant survivors: on the exclusions of the UK’s Domestic Abuse Bill (22/07/2020)
• Holyrood – “Nowhere to go”: How No Recourse to Public Funds is leaving women experiencing abuse without support (22/07/2020)
• The Guardian – Migrant women deliberately left out of UK abuse bill, say campaigners (06/07/2020)
• Inews – Campaigners say the ‘highest risk group’ of women has been left out of domestic violence bill protections (06/07/2020)
• BBC News – Domestic Abuse Bill: ‘More help for migrant women needed’ (06/07/2020)
• Huffington Post – Exclusive: Migrant Women Suffering Domestic Abuse Can’t Get Help And Aren’t Believed, Government Told (26/06/2020)
• FLEX – International Domestic Workers’ Day 2020: protecting migrant domestic workers from exploitation in the UK (16/06/2020)
• The Independent – The government is failing domestic abuse victims. It’s shameful and action is needed now (12/06/2020)
• BBC News – Domestic Abuse Bill: MPs back ban on ‘chilling rough sex defence’ (06/06/2020)
• Politics – Lost in the covid emergency: Migrant women escaping domestic violence blocked from help (13/05/2020)
• The Prisma – Coronavirus: Latin American immigrants are not alone (13/05/2020)
• NewStatesman – Christine Jardine: We need to change the Domestic Abuse Bill (06/05/2020)
• The Prisma – Immigrants and Covid-19: domestic violence (04/05/2020)
• Al Jazeera – Coronavirus exposes UK low-wage essential workers to exploitation (01/05/2020)
• The Prisma – Inmigrantes latinos y trabajo durante la pandemia (28/04/2020)
• The Prisma – Latino immigrants and work during the pandemic (28/04/2020)
• UK in a Changing Europe – Migrant women unable to access Covid-19 support (21/04/2020)
• Sky news – Coronavirus: Calls to National Domestic Abuse Helpline rise by 25% in lockdown (06/04/2020)
• Vogue – Tougher Laws On Domestic Abuse Must Protect Migrant Women Too, Says Commissioner Nicole Jacobs (06/04/2020)
• Noticias em Portugues – Aumentam casos de violência doméstica com a quarentena (01/04/2020)
• The Independent – Pregnant Spanish woman says NHS put her health at risk with ‘threatening’ action (14/03/2020)
• Financial Times – Sackings and ineligibility for benefits deepen migrants’ plight in crisis (13/04/2020)
• The Independent – Coronavirus: Migrant domestic abuse victims ‘blocked from shelters and deterred from accessing healthcare’ (30/03/2020)
• The Lead – Latin American women migrants in the United Kingdom: An invisible minority (13/03/2020)
• The Independent – EU nationals who have suffered domestic abuse in UK ‘face being pushed onto streets after Brexit’ (03/03/2020)
• The Guardian – Domestic abuse bill fails to protect children and migrant women – charities (03/03/2020)
• Financial Times – University cleaner case raises labour rules concerns (17/01/2020)
• Latin American Bureau – Lost in translation – UK Latin Americans’ language poverty (02/10/2019)
• The Prisma – The drama of an immigrant woman in the UK (02/10/2019)