The in the UK held an emergency organising聽meeting this week to show solidarity with many international students still caught up in detentions and deportations emanating from the聽TOEIC fraud scandal聽of 2014.
鈥淭he number of people that are being detained and deported as part of the TOEIC victims scandal is increasing significantly,鈥� Mostafa Rajaai, international students’ officer at NUS told 小瓢虫传媒. 鈥淎nd so we鈥檙e seeing these effects on students and their families.鈥�
The meeting, held jointly by the NUS International Students鈥� Campaign and the NUS Black Students鈥� Campaign, was called in light of more Home Office detentions and deportations of student victims聽鈥� despite the fact that a 聽the government relied on hearsay and not firm evidence when deciding that thousands of students should be deported.
“We need this at the moment to be able to resist this particular situation”
The meeting was held at the School of Oriental and African Studies in central London, with representatives from campaign group, Movement for Justice, Bindmans LLP, a London-based law firm, as well as victims from the TOEIC scandal in attendance.
The topic of immigration has been used as a tool to push the country鈥檚 politics to the right, commented Rajaai, and the network鈥檚 purpose is to put 鈥減olitical pressure on the establishment to change the direction of this country鈥檚 politics when it comes to immigrants and refugees鈥�.
鈥淭he TOEIC victims is the most pressing issue at the moment, so we need this at the moment to be able to resist this particular situation,鈥� Rajaai added.
There are hopes to lay the foundations for a wider student-led anti-deportation network.
鈥淭he aim is that we use this opportunity, as bad as it is, to create something for the future generations when they go through similar [events],鈥� said Rajaai.
Impacted聽students claim to have lost thousands of pounds as well as the chance to complete their studies.
