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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