Fundraiser: screening ‘No Release’ and discussion on Migrant Justice Organising — UK to NL

🎬 Screening & Panel: Migrant Justice Organising — UK to NL

📍 Plantage Dok Amsterdam 🗓️ Wed 8 July | light meal 19:00 | event 20:00–21:30

💸 Fundraiser for racialised queer people currently in the asylum process

This short film screening brings together researchers, activists, and organisers working on migration in the Netherlands to ask what Dutch migrant justice organising can learn from the UK’s experience confronting surveillance-based immigration enforcement. The conversation comes at a critical moment. In the Netherlands, the legal and political terrain around migration is shifting fast, from updates to migration law and the EU’s deportation regulations, to the deteriorating situation at AZCs and Ter Apel, to the expanding role of surveillance technology in migration control. Drawing connections to the UK context we want to explore what strategies, tactics, coalitions, and research approaches can travel across borders, and what’s specifically needed to build and strengthen the movement here.

**19:00 — Light meal**
Het Rode Keukentje is proving a light meal and snacks at Plantage Dok on donation basis.

**20:00 — Screening NO RELEASE**
As a starting point for this conversation, we’ll screen NO RELEASE (~15 min). It is a short film based on research by Monish Bhatia into the use of GPS surveillance in the UK immigration system. The film follows two migrant men who, after release from prison, face a new form of punishment: continuous electronic monitoring. Produced by BÉZNĂ Theatre and directed by Sînziana Cojocărescu, it offers a visceral entry point into the human cost of these systems to ground the evening’s broader discussion in the lived realities they’re meant to address.

**20:30 — Discussion**
The screening will be followed by a panel as well as open discussion with everyone present. Speakers include film makers Monish Bhatia and Sînziana Cojocărescu as well as organisers and academics on migratant justice in the Dutch context.

Hosted by the Racism and Technology Center.