Resources & documents

• Know your Rights Guide 2020 – Migrant Rights’ Network
• Brexit – Cómo probar tu status (español)
• Brexit – Como demonstrar meu estado (portugues)
• Brexit – Qué necesita saber como ciudadano de la UE que vive en el reino Unido
• Brexit – O que precisa saber enquanto cidadao da UE a viver no Reino Unido
• Brexit – Todo lo que deben saber los ciudadanos de la tercera edad de la UE que viven en el reino Unido
• Brexit – O que precisa de saber enquanto cidadao idoso da UE a viver no Reino Unido
• Solicitud de residencia para europeos y sus familiares que residen en el Reino Unido (EU Settlement Scheme) – Guía para completar la aplicación
• 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)

By LAWRS

• 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

• Opportunity Knocks: improving responses to labour exploitation with secure reporting, LEAG, 2020.
• Detaining Victims: human trafficking and the UK immigration detention system, LEAG, 2019.
• Route to your rights, Migrant Rights Network, March 2018. DEJAR?
• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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)