#unity centre

I am currently trying to investigate the Nigerian High Commission’s practice of issuing emergency travel documents. The Unity Centre has already written substantially on this from experiences of supporting people who have been forcibly removed from the UK to Nigeria, regardless of not meeting the Nigerian High Commission’s requirements for issuing emergency travel documents (ETDs).

A number of people that I have spoken to who were forcibly removed from the UK to Nigeria also claim that they were deported without ever meeting the Nigerian High Commission or issuance of ETDs. Would someone be able to tell me if ETDs  are required in every instance for an individual to be forcibly removed or deported lawfully? I know cases where people haven't been able to be deported because the receiving country won't issue ETDs, but I just want to check if it would be unlawful to remove someone without the issuance of ETDs by the receiving country's High Commission?

A recent Freedom Of Information request showed that the Nigerian High Commission charge GBP 70 per forced removal/deportation, so that’s a tidy sum of money they get from charter flights every two months.

This short film about GRAMNet (the Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network, based at the University of Glasgow) looks at the unique collaboration between activists and academics in this newly established network and explores how individuals and organisations deal with the complicated personal, social and political issues affecting refugees and asylum seekers today. 

{More information on "Unity Centre, Ibrox Street, Glasgow", who are shown in the film can be found here)

The film was made by a group of postgraduate students at the University of Glasgow interested in developing the skills of documentary filmmaking.