Refugee Archives Newsletter (24/11/2009)

Refugee Archive Newsletter

This newsletter is produced on a regular basis to help disseminate news and further information in relation to refugee and forced migration issues. The newsletter is produced by the Refugee Archives service at the University of East London. This will also be available via our Refugee Studies Blog at: http://refugee-archives.blogspot.com/

News and Media Stories

Australia and British Child Migrants

The Guardian (16/11/09): Gordon Brown to apologise to care home children sent to Australia and Canada

The Guardian (16/11/09): No harm in saying sorry

The Guardian (16/11/09): Kevin Rudd says sorry to Britons forcibly shipped to Australia as children

The Guardian (16/11/09): Brown to apologise to care home children sent to Australia and Canada

Other Refugee and Asylum Seeker News Stories

The Independent (24/11/09): The terrifying voyage of Burma's boat people

The Independent (24/11/09): Does this picture show British soldiers broke Geneva Conventions?

The Guardian (23/11/09): Who comes to the UK and where do Britons go?

The Observer (22/11/09): Michael Palin's hand of friendship gives asylum seekers a human face

The Independent (20/11/09): BNP signs its first non-white member... ... but he's only joined because he hates Muslims

IRR News (19/11/09): Calais migrants demand rights

The Guardian (19/11/09): UK lawyers fight to save nine-year-old boy from deportation to Iran

The Guardian (18/11/09): Councils 'lost' 145 child asylum seekers last year

The Guardian (18/11/09): Queen's speech 2009: draft immigration bill

The Times (18/11/09): Iraqis say British Army used Guantánamo interrogation methods

The Guardian (17/11/09 and originally published 17/11/1961): From the archive: Immigration Bill is 'anti-Commonwealth and anti-colour'

The Independent (17/11/09): Christopher Maume: 'The British National party is right about one thing: the country is filling up'

The Daily Telegraph (17/11/09): Terror suspects paid £600,000 for 'living costs'

BBC News (17/11/09): Congo gold 'still funding' rebels

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Refugee Archive Newsletter

Refugee Archive Newsletter

This newsletter is produced on a regular basis to help disseminate news and further information in relation to refugee and forced migration issues. The newsletter is produced by the Refugee Archives service at the University of East London.

News and Media Stories

Gordon Brown Immigration Speech

The Independent (13/11/09): Brown to get tough on student visas and foreign skilled workers

The Independent (13/11/09): Gordon Brown: New rules can make our immigration system tougher and fairer

The Guardian (12/11/09): Gordon Brown's immigration speech: what he said, and meant

The Guardian (12/11/09): Non-Europeans shut out from another 250,000 skilled jobs

The Guardian (12/11/09): Gordon Brown's immigration speech seen as first shot in election campaign

The Guardian (12/11/09): Gordon Brown to announce new migrant controls
The Guardian (11/11/09): Gordon Brown pledges new migrant limits

Australia and British Child Migrants
The Daily Telegraph (16/11/09): Australian PM Kevin Rudd issues apology to British child migrants
The Independent (16/11/09): After 50 years, the 'lost innocents' shipped from home win apology

The Daily Telegraph (14/11/09): Australia to say sorry to abused British child migrants

Other Refugee and Asylum Seeker News Stories

The Times (16/11/09): BNP leader to challenge Cabinet minister at general election

The Independent (16/11/09): Renouncing Islamism: To the brink and back again

The Guardian (12/11/09): The one-sided debate on asylum seekers

BBC News (12/11/09): African slavery apology 'needed'

IRR News (12/11/09): Cheryl Laws fights deportation

The Guardian (11/11/09): Citizens, do your civic duty

The Guardian (09/11/09): Welcome highlights British hypocrisy as well as French brutality

The Independent (09/11/09): Johnson: we need a debate on migration

The Independent (09/11/09): Leading article: The immigration debate we need

The Guardian (06/11/09): Is the British curry under threat?

The Daily Telegraph (06/11/09): Exeter is a lovely place for the BNP, says actress Emma Thompson

The Independent (06/11/09): Prosecutor arrives in Kenya on trail of war crimes

The Guardian (05/11/09): Disguising the detention of children

The Daily Telegraph (05/11/09): Radovan Karadzic trial delayed until March 2010

The Independent (05/11/09): Saved from the death squads: Darfuris given asylum in UK

The Guardian (05/11/09): British soldiers in Afghanistan helping to curb asylum seekers, claims minister

The Guardian (04/11/09): Why Johnson felt the need to say sorry

The Independent (04/11/09): Saved from the death squads: Darfuris given asylum in UK

The Independent (04/11/09): Zimbabwe to escape censure over abuses in diamond mines

New Reports and Publications

Two recent reports have recently been published by the mental health charity Mind charting the levels of support and provision of services available for refugees and asylum seekers. Further information on these two reports can be found on the Mind website at: http://www.mind.org.uk/news/2368_uk_puts_mental_health_of_refugees_and_asylum_seekers_at_risk

Alternatively, copies of the reports in PDF format are available via the links below:

A civilised society: mental health provision for refugees and asylum seekers in England and Wales

http://www.mind.org.uk/assets/0000/5695/refugee_report_2.pdf

(Source: IRR Weekly Digest 13 November)

Improving mental health support for refugee communities – an advocacy approach

http://www.mind.org.uk/assets/0000/5696/Refugee_Report_1.pdf

(Source: IRR Weekly Digest 13 November)

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Dr. Nik Mai of the Institute for the Study of European Transformations (ISET) at London Metropolitan University has recently published a research report entitled Migrant workers in the UK sex industry. This publication reports on the recent ESTC funded research led by Dr. Mai and further details can be found on the ISET website at: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research-units/iset/projects/esrc-migrant-workers.cfm

The research report itself can be downloaded here: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/londonmet/fms/MRSite/Research/iset/Migrant%20Workers%20in%20the%20UK%20Sex%20Industry%20Policy-Relevant%20Findings2.pdf
(Source: ICAR Newsletter)

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A new report has been launched by the Welsh Assembly Government entitled “Refugees living in Wales: A survey of skills, experiences and barriers to inclusion” by Crawley, Heaven and Crimes, Tina, Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR), Swansea University
(Source: ICAR Newsletter)

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A report has been launched by the Innocenti Research Centre at UNICEF entitled “Children in Immigrant Families in Eight Affluent Countries: Their family, national and international context” by Hernandez, Donald J., Macartney, Suzanne et al.
A UK-based case study is also available, entitled: “The situation of children in immigrant families in the United Kingdom” by Crawley, Heaven. Innocenti Working Paper IWP-2009-18
(Source: ICAR Newsletter)

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Refugee Archive Newsletter

Refugee Archive Newsletter - Tuesday, 3 November 2009.

This newsletter is produced on a regular basis to help disseminate news and further information in relation to refugee and forced migration issues. The newsletter is produced by the Refugee Archives service at the University of East London.

News and Media Stories

Refugee and Asylum Seeker News Stories

The Times (03/11/09): Minister admits: we got it wrong on immigration

The Independent (03/11/09): We got it wrong on immigration, says Johnson

The Guardian (02/11/09): Alan Johnson: Labour has made mistakes on immigration

The Observer (01/11/09): Jim Goldberg: Open See

The Guardian (30/10/09): English tests for migrants will fail

The Guardian (30/11/09): Misery follows the 'jungle camp' raid

The Guardian (29/11/09): Protests greet plan to resume forced returns to Zimbabwe

The Guardian (29/10/09): Home Office offers failed asylum seekers cash to return to Zimbabwe

The New Statesman: Home is where the heartbreak is

Institute for Race Relations News (29/10/09): The new McCarthyism

The Daily Telegraph (29/10/09): BNP could be invited on Question Time yearly

The Daily Telegraph (29/10/09): Schools report 40,000 cases of racism a year

The Independent (29/10/09): Joan Smith: Make no mistake: sex trafficking is real

The Guardian (29/10/09): Asylum woes at the Home Office

Your Ashford News (28/10/09): Staff suspended at Millbank immigration centre

The Independent (28/10/09): Alaa Al-Aswany: When women are sinners in the eyes of extremists

The Guardian (26/10/09): Former Labour adviser denies immigration plot to undermine right

Child Trafficking

The Independent (03/11/09): Revealed: hidden misery of children trafficked to Britain

The Children’s Society (02/11/09): Professionals ‘missing opportunities’ to help hidden children exploited for sex and forced labour - See also the Hidden Children report detailed below.

BBC News: (02/11/09): UK detained 1,300 child migrants

Children and Young People Daily Bulletin (30/10/09): Child trafficking victims ignored by frontline workers

Radovan Karadzic

The Daily Telegraph (03/11/09): Radovan Karadzic regretted that not all Bosniam Muslims died at Srebrenica

The Times (28/10/09): Court hears Radovan Karadzic’s threats of Muslim slaughter

The Daily Telegraph (28/10/09): Radovan Karadzic wanted Bosnian Muslims wiped from the 'face of the earth'

The Independent (28/10/09): Caught by wiretap, Karadzic boasting about genocide plans

New Reports and Publications

Hidden Children – separated children at risk. A new report produced by The Children’s Society. Available online in PDF format on The Children’s Society website at:
http://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/resources/documents/media/18843_full.pdf

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