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Sep 2, 2010
Immigration minister, Damian Green, will be making his first major speech setting out the plans of the coaltion government in this area of policyat a meeting at the Royal Commonwealth Society, London, on Monday 6th September.
The Home Office's invitation to attend has been opened to the public - here it is....
Aug 27, 2010
The latest batch of immigration statistics, laying out the figures for 2009, have been reported with outrage in the media. Reports claim that immigration levels are on the up in the UK, as well as the fears that the student route is being ‘abused’. But a closer look at the figures indicates that this may all be a bit of a storm in a teacup.
This week, the Office for National Statistics released its quarterly immigration figures for 2009. The figures show that net long-term immigration to the UK rose by 20% from 163,000 in 2008, to 196,000 in 2009 – and this has been spun in media including the Telegraph (Immigration jumps amid surge in student visas) and Daily Mirror (200,000 new immigrants in Britain as foreign students flock to UK) as representing an overall ‘jump in immigration’ to the UK. This is not only scaremongering, but is sending a message that is just plain wrong.
Aug 27, 2010
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In what seems to be an attempt to appeal to the typical Sun reader and look tough on immigration, UK Border Agency has really overstepped the line with their continuous use of mockery and tabloid style puns in their press releases. I wonder how does this square with the current anti-discrimination legislation.
This practice is nothing new and MRN has already reported on the issue last year. So far nothing has changed and if anything it would seem that UK Border Agency has stepped up their attempts to portray migrants as unwanted cheats and criminals.
Aug 23, 2010
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Subsequent to the French government's expulsion of 79 Roma to Romania, the Italian interior minister announced to raise a proposal for the mandatory expulsion of EU citizens who do not meet certain criteria at a September meeting of EU interior ministers in Paris.
According to articles in the Corriere della Sera and EUObserver, Roberto Maroni, the Italian interior minister announced to raise a proposal for EU citizen expulsion policy at the meeting of EU interior ministers on 6 September. Italy has said it intends to expel citizens from other EU states if they are not able to support themselves.
Aug 20, 2010
There has been a flurry of media articles recently on the new proposed cuts to the legal aid system. Perhaps it is time to reflect on recent developments and see what the bottom line might hold for asylum seekers in the future.
In the weeks before Refugee and Migrant Justice (RMJ) went into administration, Migrants' Rights Network sent a letter to the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), highlighting some of the issues that cropped up in the process leading to the closure of RMJ, mostly related to the Legal Aid reform and the new system of payment of legal aid to organisations representing their clients.
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