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We provide an ongoing and varied training programme for members of the AVID network. This includes educational talks, updates and advice relating to detention policy and visiting skills training. This content is available free to volunteers in AVID member groups and individual members of AVID who can login to watch past trainings here.

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Talk: Targeting Albanian Communities for Immigration Detention (part one)

This is part one of a talk on developments which have led to Albanian communities being the most common nationality in detention in 2023. Piro Rexhepi situates the detention of Albanian people in the wider context of international migration policies, albanophobia and racist discourses.
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Talk: Targeting Albanian communities for Immigration Detention (part two)

This is part two of a talk on the increasing detention of Albanian people. Kristina Millona shares some key changes to 'Country Policy and Information Notes' on Human Trafficking in Albania and further developments which have led to the stigmatisation of Albanian men.
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Talk: Solidarity with Sudanese Communities

15th April 2024 marked one year since the outbreak of conflict in Sudan. Waging Peace to discuss the impact on Sudanese communities in the UK and how solidarity groups can respond.
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Training

Talk: Breaking Down the Walls of Silence

Join AVID and Hyab Yohannes on a quest for answers to urgent questions – how do we bear witness to the unbearable? How can we confront the open wounds left by border violence? And how can we heal and create new ways of being?
Visitor
Training

Training: Trafficking & the National Referral Mechanism in Detention

Training on trafficking and the National Referral Mechanism (the NRM) in immigration detention. Please be aware that statistics and guidance are change regularly and this training took place before the introduction of the Rwanda Act 2024.
Visitor
Training

Training: Legal advice and representation in immigration detention

Getting essential legal advice and representation is a constant challenge for people in immigration detention, frequently leaving people without access to justice around their detention and their immigration case.
Advocacy
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Talk: Criminalisation, racialisation and deportation

Luke De Noronha joins AVID to discuss the intersection of borders, criminalisation, and racialisation. Part of the 2022 Communities not Walls series.
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Talk: The Forces of Detention

Professor Mary Bosworth discusses with AVID the forces that govern the use of detention in the UK, drawing on 15 years of research with people held under immigration powers and with staff in detention.
Visitor
Training

Training: Understanding the Nationality and Borders Act for Visitors in Detention

This training session outlines the key provisions of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 and is designed for visitors without a legal background.

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