Dear Jac,
I do indeed regard you as a tireless, devoted and dedicated advocate of the power of people to from their own destiny and to have their voices heard. I salute you.
To clarify , , , I hope against hope that in a 'case' like this using whatever we can grasp - including the 'master's tools' to try to contest 'the master's powers' - might make a small but important difference. What Jeanine and many others are experiencing around the world at the hands of the various agencies of the various states is absolutely appalling, destructive and unjust. This is painful and distressing oppression to witness at a distance for us all. It must be hardly bearable for you.
However, whilst I am happy to try to deploy the psy complex progressively in this case I think the bigger task is to dismantle and replace the psy complex, as it so oppressively problematic. For the future, after this emergency has passed, surely we must think what - as a list - are we and our allies going to do to engage with the agony and injustice of the millions of refugees and asylum seekers around the world ? What has community (critical) psychology got to contribute other than rather obvious psy statements that being treated with oppresive contempt for one's humanity and thrown into danger by the agencies of the state is profoundly destructive?
For now I look forward to hearing the news, in a few days, that Jeanine is at home with her family.
In solidarity and friendship
David
David Fryer
Professor of Community Critical Psychology, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Professor Extraordinarius, University of South Africa
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Stirling, Scotland
President: European Community Psychology Association
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From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jacqui Lovell [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 16 March 2011 19:03
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: ply
I have read through it David and it reads well, THANKYOU!
I take your points re Critical / Community Psych approaches and am as you will I hope agree a devoted and dedicated advocate of the power of people to from their own destiny and to have their voices heard.
I am also aware that Ignacio Martin Baro said that we as academics need to lend ourselves to “poor and oppressed peoples in their struggle for justice and dignity” and this is what feel is happening here and for me it is MUCH APPRECIATED as I am sure Jeanine will say when I speak with her and read the letter to her.
Sadly she is sinking fast and we are today going to be submitting the further representations to the UKBA including letters from my children about how they feel now that there sister has been taken away from them, which to be honest I find it impossible to read without crying and I would challenge any Judge in the land to do any different. I hope centres on being able to get this case before a Judge as then we hope Justice may finally be done!
As usual I remain
Your Ever Hopeful and Thankful (for all the friends and the support we are receiving in this)
Jacxxx
Jacqui Lovell
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From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Fryer, David
Sent: 16 March 2011 07:43
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: List action to prevent Jacqui's daughter's removal from the UK? NEW
Dear All,
As during the last 48 hrs since I proposed ‘we collectively write on behalf of Jeanine and her family, as a group of community psychologists’ unless there were objections and none has been posted, I have gone ahead and drafted a letter on behalf of the list on the basis of material provided by Jacqui L (thanks Jacqui) and I am here circulating it to the list for provisional approval / improvement. The draft letter is attached and pasted in below.
Please note: First, I have tried to draft a letter which will be read as if we endorse (without actually doing so) a psycho-medical approach to ‘mental illness’, appeal to notions of ‘professional psychology’, ‘research’ etc because I think this is the most effective way to deploy a morsel of social power in the interests of Jeanine in this case. Like many of us on this list I have little sympathy with such approaches or appeals myself and am committed to developing a community critical psychology which resists them in the longer run. Second, I have deployed all the pseudo-authority letters and titles I can muster as I suspect it might affect the authority of the message . . . I am not impressed by such letters and title myself and don’t expect you to be.
Practically, I have produced a draft which could be much improved but there is little time to amend the draft as Jacqui L may need to use a draft at very short notice (Wed or Thurs).
Third, Jacqui: I am unsure if it would be better to address it to a named individual?
David
To whom it may concern
Re: Ms. Jeanine Kamba (Home Office Ref Number: K1226380/2)
(Incorrectly registered by the United Kingdom Border Agency as Jeanine ‘Bateka’)
This is a collectively agreed statement made by members of COMMUNITYPSYCHUK, a group of approximately 250 community psychologists, working in a variety of ways to understand, prevent or reduce individual distress, diagnosed mental illness, oppression and injustice through community psychological research and action. We write as the largest group of community psychologists in the UK, drawing on our various professional, research and other expertises, to respectfully advise that we believe that the removal of Jeanine Kamba from her British family, her placement in Yarls Wood Detention Centre and the proposal by the United Kingdom Border Agency to imminently relocate her to the Democratic Republic of Congo, would in our view be likely to have grave psychological, health and other serious consequences for Jeanine.
Jeanine Kamba was orphaned at the age of ten years old, a child casualty in a country at war. Jeanine and her siblings claimed asylum in the UK as a family around Christmas 2005 but her brother who acted as a proxy-parent brother was forcibly removed from the UK by the United Kingdom Border Agency following a failed asylum application to the Democratic Republic of Congo where he was imprisoned, tortured, released and has since not been seen for 18 months. Were Jeanine to be removed to The Democratic Republic of Congo by the United Kingdom Border Agency she would be at serious risk of imprisonment, torture and rape. It would also, we believe, be contrary to her rights under the Human Rights Act Article 8 (to privacy and a family life).
Being orphaned as a child, being exposed to warfare, being compulsorily isolated in a Detention Centre, being in chronic fear of imprisonment, torture, and rape, absence of psychological support from family and friends, deprived of the means to support herself, being homeless in a strange country with no money to live on and no access to education after removal (all the case for Jeanine), are all – from a community psychology standpoint – predictors of serious psychological problems and it is entirely unsurprising that Jeanine already has serious, problems, diagnosable by mental health professionals.
On the other hand, living stably as a member of a British family – already the case for approximately 2 years - attending College, studying for Qualifications in Health and Social Care, volunteering at a local nursing home, being under the care of the social services and the Leaving Care Team and being supported within a loving family including someone with experience as a nurse, psychologist, therapist and community practitioner working with people with enduring mental health needs (all the case for Jeanine), are all predicted from a community psychology to promote well being.
For all these reasons we appeal to those in a position of power over Jeanine and her family to enable Jeanine Kamba to remain with her family, continue her education and recovery, flourish within a community that has become her own and contribute to British Society in the many ways she can. We therefore respectfully urge that Jeanine Kamba should be removed immediately from Yarls Wood Detention Centre and reunited with her British family and that the proposal by the United Kingdom Border Agency to relocate Jeanine to the Democratic Republic of Congo to be resisted on the basis that it would have grave consequences for Jeanine’s psychological health
On behalf of [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
By David Fryer B.A., M.A., Ph.D., F.B.Ps.S., F.S.C.R.A.
Co-Moderator, UK Community Psychology Discussion List
Interim Committee Member, British Psychological Society Community Psychology Section
Professor of Community Critical Psychology, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Associate Head, Community Wellbeing, Human Services & Clinical Care Research Group, Centre for Inland Health, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Professor Extraordinarius, University of South Africa
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Stirling, Scotland
President, European Community Psychology Association
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From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Deborah Chinn
Sent: Tuesday, 15 March 2011 7:50 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: List action to prevent Jacqui's daughter's removal from the UK?
My support also
Deborah X
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Moloney<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: List action to prevent Jacqui's daughter's removal from the UK?
Thanks from me too, David, that's a great idea.
P
> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:29:20 +0000
> From: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: List action to prevent Jacqui's daughter's removal from the UK?
> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>
> Yes, thanks David. Jacqui, I've signed the petition and joined the facebook
> group.
> Penny
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Annie Mitchell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 6:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] List action to prevent Jacqui's daughter's
> removal from the UK?
>
>
> > Thanks for offering to do this on our collective behalf David; I support..
> >
> > Annie
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The UK Community Psychology Discussion List
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Fryer
> > Sent: 13 March 2011 19:17
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [COMMUNITYPSYCHUK] List action to prevent Jacqui's daughter's
> > removal from the UK?
> >
> > Dear List members,
> >
> >
> >
> > You will be aware from Jacqui Lovell's post of the attempts by the United
> > Kingdom Border Agency to remove Jacqui's daughter, Jeanine, from the UK to
> > the Democratic Republic of Congo where she would be separated from her
> > family and at high risk of atrocities.
> >
> > A number of us have signed the petition as individuals. I am writing to
> > propose that we collectively write on behalf of Jeanine and her family, as
> > a group of community psychologists. There is some reason for hope that
> > deploying what social power is attached to being qualified “professional'
> > psychologists might have some influence in this case.
> >
> >
> >
> > There is real urgency about this as the UK Border Authority proposes to
> > remove Jeanine next Friday and in the meantime Jeanine is in Yarls Wood
> > Detention Centre.
> >
> >
> >
> > As before I suggest that if there are no objections within 48 hours, we
> > take that as a sign of agreement to a collective list statement lobbying
> > for Jeanine's right to stay with her family in the UK being sent.
> >
> >
> >
> > In the mean time as a default I will liaise with Jacqui to co-draft a
> > letter on behalf of the list and circulate it to the list for provisional
> > approval. I would be very happy if someone else wished to produce a draft
> > instead. Perhaps someone already has?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > best wishes
> >
> >
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: Jacqui Lovell <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Sent: Mon, 14 March, 2011 0:18:57
> > Subject: Please sign the petition to Save My Daughter Jeanine
> >
> > Dear All,
> > Please consider signing the petition to Save my daughter Jeanine Kamba
> > from being removed from the UK to the Democratic Replublic of Congo.
> >
> > Just click on the link below to be taken straight to the online petition.
> >
> > See information below and attached and be aware that I have posted
> > instructions for signing the petition at the beginning of the information
> > on the ipetitions site, so for all those who "liked" us on facebook......
> > try again please as "liking" us doesnt mean you have signed as we are
> > unable to get your address from Facebook!
> >
> > Please forward to your friends and ask them to sign!
> >
> > With Thanks
> >
> > Jacqui Lovell - Jeanines mother
> >
> > http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/jeanine_kamba/
> >
> >
> > Jeanine Kamba
> > (Wrongly registered by the UKBA (United Kingdom Border Agency) as Jeanine
> > Bateka)
> > Home Office Ref Number K1226380/2
> >
> > SAVE OUR SISTER: An appeal from the Lovell – Kamba Family
> >
> > Jeanine Kamba is to be removed from the UK on Friday after being detained
> > by the UK Border Authority.
> >
> > Jeanine, 18, came to the UK in 2005 after fleeing the Democratic Republic
> > of Congo (DRC). Her father died in 1995 and her mother went missing in
> > 2003 and has not been seen since. Her older brother Blaise took
> > responsibility for both Jeanine and her sister Leitichia, but was forced
> > to return to the DRC in 2009, despite objections from senior Bishops of
> > the Church of England and local media, amid serious concerns for his
> > well-being.
> > After returning to the DRC, Blaise was imprisoned. We secured his release
> > 18 months ago and since then he has not been seen or heard from.
> >
> > Since arriving in the UK, Jeanine has been in full-time education and is
> > currently pursuing an NVQ Level Two in Health and Social Care, after
> > earning her Level One qualification. She aims to become a social worker in
> > order to help people in need, and has recently begun to volunteer at a
> > local nursing home.
> >
> > Jeanine, along with Leitichia, was released from detention into the care
> > of Jacqui Lovell in 2009. She is now considered as much a part of the
> > family as Jacqui’s other 5 children Lauren, Grace and their three younger
> > sisters.
> >
> > Jeanine’s sister Leitichia now has a son with her partner Jonathan, and is
> > living in London. Now a loving auntie, Jeanine often travels to see her
> > nephew Jensley, and cherishes her time spent with him. She has begun
> > taking vital steps in recovering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a
> > result of the traumatic events in her past. She still suffers from
> > terrible headaches and nightmares, but has made some progress in
> > overcoming these, thanks to counselling from her mother Jacqui.
> >
> > As required, on Thursday 10th March, Jeanine attended her monthly signing
> > at her local police station where she was forcibly detained by five UKBA
> > officials.
> >
> > Jeanine is currently being held in Yarls Wood Detention Centre, and is
> > scheduled to be deported back to the DRC, where she has no family or
> > friends, no place to live, and no means of supporting herself.
> >
> > The DRC has the highest incidence of rape and domestic violence anywhere
> > in the world. If her deportation were to happen, Jeanine is almost certain
> > to be subject to these atrocities.
> >
> > It is for all these reasons and more that we beg the Home Secretary Teresa
> > May to show leniency and compassion in Jeanine’s case. Jeanine, a teenager
> > who has already suffered far too much for one so young, deserves to remain
> > with her family in the UK, in order to continue her education, and to be
> > allowed time to grow into the wonderful young woman that she is becoming.
> >
> > It is the power of the people that can often make all the difference. Each
> > signature is important. Please act now.
> > Please sign the online petition at
> > http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/jeanine_kamba/
> >
> > And join our facebook group to receive regular updates about what is
> > happening for Jeanine by searching for Save.Our.Sister - An Appeal by the
> > Lovell-Kamba Family on facebook or via email to
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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