A Selection of Recent Publications

New Publications

The Children’s Commissioner has recently published a new report entitled “The Children’s Commissioner for England's follow up report to: The arrest and detention of children subject to immigration control.”  A full report and an executive summary are available to download in PDF format as follows:

Full Report - The Children’s Commissioner for England's follow up report to: The arrest and detention of children subject to immigration control

Executive Summary - The Children’s Commissioner for England's follow up report to: The arrest and detention of children subject to immigration control (Executive summary)

 New Home Office statistics have just been released and details are available on the Home Office RDS What’s New website:

Control of Immigration: Quarterly Statistical Summary, United Kingdom - Fourth Quarter 2009
Also available: Supplementary excel tables
(25.02.10)

 A report from the Institute for the Study of European Transformations (London Metropolitan University) by Dr. Nick Mai and entitled “Migrant Workers in the UK Sex Industry Policy-Relevant Findings.”  The full report is available to download in full at:

 Migrant Workers in the UK Sex Industry Policy-Relevant Findings2.pdf

New UK Border Agency report by John Vine, the Independent Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency entitled “Asylum: Getting the Balance Right? A Thematic Inspection: July – November 2009.”

Full details and downloads are available as follows:  http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/aboutus/workingwithus/indbodies/chiefinspector/

New Human Rights Watch Report:

Fast-Tracked Unfairness :Detention and Denial of Women Asylum Seekers in the UK

February 23, 2010

The 69-page report documents how women asylum seekers with complex claims are being routed into a system designed for much simpler claims. The women are held in detention largely for the UK’s administrative convenience, have very little time to prepare a legal case, and have only a few days to appeal if refused. But the claims often involve such sensitive and difficult issues as sexual violence, female genital mutilation, trafficking, and domestic abuse.

A Tough Road Home: Uprooted Irqis in Jordan, Syria and Iraq.  Produced by the International Rescue Committee. (February 2010).  Full details:  http://www.theirc.org/special-reports/iraqi-refugees

ICAR have recently published a new report entitled `Citizenship for Refugees in the UK: Key Issues and Research.  Published in February 2010 and available to download from the link below:

Citizenship for Refugees: http://www.icar.org.uk/download.php?id=603

A New Report produced by the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement and  entitled: Resolving Iraqi Displacement: Humanitarian and Development Perspectives.  Available to download in PDF format as follows:

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2010/0216_iraqi_displacement/0216_iraqi_displacement.pdf