Mothers Campaign for Family Reunion

Our Mothers Campaign (MoCa) started in 2008 to make visible the situation of mothers who had to flee to the UK leaving their children behind in their home country. Mothers were forced to leave their children because they thought it was the best way to keep them safe and because they didn’t know know where they were going, or how, or if they would survive. 

Our campaigning resulted in hundreds of people, particularly mothers, rallying to our cause and some mothers experienced the joy of being reunited with their children.

We are resurrecting our campaign now because so many mothers are still fighting and we need a voice.

If you want to join the campaign, please sign our petition here.

And / or drop us an email on aawg02@gmail.com and,

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We demand that: 
– We are recognised as mothers, with dependent children.
– When the government grants amnesty (the right to stay without having to establish a fear of persecution) to families with children here, that we, together with our children back home, must also have a right to family amnesty.  Though we
are divided, we are a family.
– Everyone who wins the right to stay in the UK, no matter under which law or convention, must have the unconditional right to family reunion. 
– Children should have the right to join their mother or father even if they turned 18 before their parents’ asylum claim was settled. 
We urge British embassies/high commissions in our home countries to show their commitment to families by helping to find our missing children and reunite them with their mothers.

“Mummy, you are the only person I have to save me from everything I’m going through.  Thomas screams every night. . . . I don’t even know what to say about Michael but he’s a baby boy who needs his mummy right now.”
Letter from a teenage girl whose mother was forced
to leave her four children behind.

Press coverage so far:

Morning Star Online, March 2019: Mothers-and-children-should-be-priority-world-and-we-are-not. Read the article in full here.

The Guardian, July 2021: Judge-decides-children-asylum. Read the article in full here.

The Guardian, October 2010: Peace Musabi Asylum Victory, read in full here.