About Southeast and East Asian Centre (SEEAC)

Southeast and East Asian Centre (SEEAC) is a community organisation for and by migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum from Southeast and East Asia and people of these heritages living in the UK. We provide essential community support services on issues around welfare, immigration, employment, healthcare access, racism and discrimination, mental health, as well as gender-based violence and exploitation. Based on our experiences as a user-led grassroots organisation, we also delivers advocacy and campaigning work to address intersectional challenges faced by marginalised and under-represented groups of the communities, such as precarious migrant workers, asylum seekers, survivors of trafficking and labour exploitation, women and people of marginalised genders.

SEEAC strives to make change in our society so that members of Southeast and East Asian communities in the UK can live without social exclusion and isolation, to be free from discrimination, exploitation and poverty, and to be able to make positive contributions to the wider British society. Southeast and East Asian communities consist of people with backgrounds from countries and regions including but not limited to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, East-Timor, Brunei, the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, North and South Koreas, and Japan. These are vast and diverse communities with different experiences, yet also face similar issues and shared experiences as marginalised “Asian Other” ethnic group. With the experience and expertise of some established community leaders and organisations, we aim to provide support to members of the wider range of communities reaching out to some of the most under-represented groups.

SEEAC is a registered community interest company (CIC) by guarantee.