Taking, shifting, and admitting responsibility: what role do individuals, communities and states have in making a reality of a more compassionate global migration landscape? 

SolidariTee are delighted to invite you to our annual conference 2025 on Saturday 21st March in Finsbury Park, London. Tickets are available on a voluntary 'donate what you can' basis using this page, but if you aren't able to donate at this time, please email outreach@solidaritee.org.uk to register for a free ticket, stating your full name, along with any dietary and/or accessibility requirements. More information about the event can be found below. Lunch and refreshments will be provided to all guests

About the Event

Our signature event is back this spring! Bringing together activists and campaigners, NGO leaders, academics, artists, students and humanitarians, we invite everyone interested in participating in a space of learning, community, and solidarity to join us for an engaging, exploratory day focused on understanding and overcoming the barriers to an international migration system which upholds fundamental rights and safety as essentials, not as negotiables.

About this year's theme

In recent years, state responses to migration across many parts of the world have increasingly been shaped by deterrence, externalisation, and restriction. 

In the UK, these trends have been reflected in attempts to implement the Rwanda “safe third country” agreement, proposals such as “one in, one out” approaches to asylum processing, and a growing range of deterrence-based policies designed to prevent people from accessing asylum altogether. All the while, people seeking safety have increasingly been subjected to criminalisation and the effects of a deliberately constructed “hostile environment.”

Taking these recent developments as a starting point, SolidariTee’s 2026 Annual Conference centres on the theme of responsibility in migration and refugee protection. The conference interrogates how responsibility is understood, allocated, and contested within contemporary migration systems, beginning with the obligations of states and moving through to the power of grassroots and culture-shifting movements. 

We'll ask questions about what states currently owe to migrants and asylum seekers under international and domestic legal frameworks. How are these obligations diluted, deferred, or displaced - onto other states, private actors, or even migrants themselves? As states retreat, others step forward. What roles do civil society organisations and individuals play in addressing gaps left by state systems? The conference also places trauma-informed approaches to supporting refugees at the centre of discussion. How can we move away from viewing mental health as an individual responsibility? And in what ways have we seen organisations doing so? 

By tracing the arc from state failures to civil society responses,the conference invites critical reflection on what responsibility means for refugee protection, ultimately turning the question outward: what is my responsibility? 

Thank you for your interest in attending this event, we look forward to seeing you soon!

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Tickets 

As always, tickets are available on a 'donate what you can' basis, with a suggested £12 donation, however, you are welcome to donate any amount of your choosing. All proceeds from this event will be used to fund SolidariTee's partner NGOs who work in Greece to provide trauma-informed legal aid as well as mental health and psychosocial support. A donation is not required to attend the event - if you would like to register for a free ticket, please simply email central@solidaritee.org.uk to confirm your name and any dietary or accessibility requirements to reserve a place at the event. 

If you are a current SolidariTee volunteer or have personal or family experience of forcible displacement, we may be able to support you with the reimbursement of travel expenses. If you wish to reimburse your travel ticket, please email central@solidaritee.org.uk to let us know where you will be travelling from and the approximate cost of travel. We will respond to enquiries on a rolling basis - please note that our budget is limited, so we may not be able to support everyone in this way.