Who We Are

Migrant Democracy Project exists for migrants at home in the UK who want to shape a collective future rooted in social justice, reflecting our needs and interests, through community power building.

Our Values

We are led by the principles of abolitionism, universalism, harm reduction, and solidarity in all our work. Our struggle is not only to get rid of oppressive systems. Our fight is to build just ones instead. Our lived-experience guides our work in building migrant power in the UK.

Abolition is not absence, it is presence. What the world will become already exists in fragments and pieces, experiments and possibilities. Abolition is building the future from the present, in all of the ways we can.

— Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Gilmore and Lambert, 2019)

Our Work

Political Participation

The Issue:

Only 66% of Commonwealth and EU citizens are registered to vote compared to 87% for their British counterparts.

The Solution:

We register eligible migrants to vote and inform communities about UK politics and their democratic rights.

Votes for All

The Issue:

Over 4 million do not have the right to vote in General Elections, and over 1 million people have no right to vote at all.

The Solution:

We are campaigning for the right to vote to be extended to all residents, no matter where they are from.

Electing Migrants

The Issue:

Migrants are under-represented in elected positions. 40% of London’s population is made up of first-generation migrants. Yet, only 16% of elected councillors are first-generation migrants.

The Solution:

Through our MPower Programme we are getting migrants elected to bring our lived experience to politics and better represent our communities.