Mad Campaigns Lab is a space for NSUN members (individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, and/or trauma, as well as grassroots, user-led mental health groups). If you are not already a member, sign up for free here.
Part 1: 16th of September, 4.00-5.30pm. Panel & discussion
How do people experiencing mental ill-health navigate the immigration system? How does immigration policy seek to create distress, and what can we do about it? Join us for an NSUN-hosted conversation and Q&A to find out.
In this session, NSUN’s policy team will be in conversation with Brian Dikoff and Francesca Humi, two organisers doing important work at the intersection of migrant justice, mental health and disability justice.
The discussion between NSUN staff and our speakers will be recorded, but this will not include participants’ names or faces. After a short break, we will take questions from the audience, which will not be recorded.
You are also more than welcome to join and simply listen in!
About our speakers
Brian Dikoff is the Project Lead for Include, a new strategic legal project focussing on migrant disability rights in the UK, currently based at Southwark Law Centre. He previously founded and coordinated the Migrants Mental Capacity Advocacy Project at Migrants Organise, a specialist strategic project looking into the issue of mental capacity in the immigration system.
Francesca Humi is an organiser and community historian. Since 2020, she has worked for migrant justice organisations ranging from advocacy and campaigning for undocumented migrants’ rights to coordinating an international forum of migrants’ rights organisations working at the Franco-Belgian-UK border. She led Kanlungan’s participation in the Covid-19 Inquiry and gave evidence on the impact of the pandemic on migrants. She volunteers with the United Domestic Workers Association (UDWA), a mutual aid group for-and-by migrant domestic workers in London, and is a creative producer for an upcoming documentary about UDWA. She is also a member of the Disability and Migration Network.
Francesca is writing her first book, a feminist history of Filipino migration to the UK from the late 1970s to present, using oral history, interviews with Filipino nurses, carers, domestic workers and partners. Her work explores the intersection of feminised labour, migration, racial capitalism and care work.
Part 2: 23rd of September, 4.00-5.30pm. Action session
What does solidarity look like between the mad, disabled, and migrant justice movements? How can we push back against efforts to pit migrants and disabled people against each other? How do we incorporate migrant justice into our work around mad and disability justice?
Join the NSUN team for an action session, identifying ongoing campaigns and building our own goals around migrant justice & mental health activism.
This session will be facilitated by the NSUN team. Participants will be asked to contribute, but you are welcome to join however you see fit including keeping your camera off, listening along, or participating only via the chat.
About Mad Campaigns Lab
Mad Campaigns Lab is a monthly online meet-up for folks interested in campaigning around mental healthcare, Mad liberation, and Disability justice. Free to join and open to all NSUN members, regardless of policy & campaigning experience.
Our 2026 programme focuses on issues that intersect with mental ill-health, distress, or trauma. The aim of the sessions are to:
- Expand understandings of issues which are connected to mental ill-health, distress, or trauma
- Develop a broader awareness of what ‘counts’ as mental health work
- Create spaces for knowledge sharing on mental health and Disability justice
Design campaigning goals; identifying key players and strategies for change
Take a look at the full programme.
Who is it led by?
The space is led by Courtney Buckler (she/they), Head of Policy and Campaigns and Kieran Lewis (he/him), Rights and Migration Policy Manager. We will also be joined by other members of the NSUN team to support with tech, moderation, and access.
Group agreement
By signing up you agree to:
- Follow NSUN’s online event conduct agreement.
- Maintain confidentiality by not sharing information about Lab members, actions, or campaigns beyond the meeting.
- Not share the Zoom link/joining instructions with anybody else. Our sign-up process helps us to track how many people will be joining, and to prevent (as best as possible) the unlikely event of folks joining in bad faith.
- The full group agreement, which was developed with members at our first meeting and will be shared during the sessions and updated as and when the group feels it is necessary.
If you would like the registration form in an alternative format or have any questions about the Lab, please email Courtney at courtney.buckler@nsun.org.uk.
Access
You can find an Easy Read Guide to joining Zoom meetings here.
If you need help with costs to be able to access this event, we may be able to make a contribution – please get in touch with us at info@nsun.org.uk.
Zoom closed captions will be available to turn on during the meeting.
We will be asking that attendees keep themselves on mute while others are talking to avoid audio distractions.
Please let us know of any access requirements in your sign up form and we will try to accommodate them as best as we can.
About NSUN
This meeting is free to attend. It is for NSUN members (individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, and/or trauma, as well as grassroots, user-led mental health groups). If you are not already a member, sign up for free here.