Research
Journal article (1): The Politics of Refugee Protection by G.S. Goodwin-Gill in Refugee Survey Quarterly 27/1
Journal article (2): Dynamics and Countervailing Pressures of Visa, Asylum and Immigration Policy Treaty Revision: Explaining Change and Stagnation from the Amsterdam IGC to the IGC of 2003-04 by A. Niemann in the Journal of Common Market Studies 46/3
Medicins du [...]
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The Home Office has published asylum statistics for the first quarter of 2008. It has also announced changes to the contents following consultation. These will take effect from the next bulletin, and aim for a “more structured and broader overview of the statistics published.”
The Independent Asylum Commission has published Saving Sanctuary – its first report [...]
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission is gathering evidence for its Human Rights Inquiry into how human rights works in Britain. The deadline is 21 June for both employees and users of the public and voluntary sectors to submit evidence.
Journal article: The Human Rights of Failed Asylum Seekers in the United Kingdom by J.A. Sweeney [...]
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A new report from the Children’s Commissioner for England investigates Hillingdon council’s treatment of unaccompanied asylum seeking children (UASC). Hillingdon is one of ten local authorities which have taken their case to the House of Lords because of alleged underfunding for their work with UASC.
Government and Opposition (Vol 43) is a special issue entitled ‘The [...]
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Enforced removal in the US
We have discussed several times on this blog the complexity of removing failed asylum seekers that have exhausted all rights of appeal, particularly to areas of the world where the political conditions or social relations are unstable. While removals is the unpalatable aspect of any functioning asylum system, actually carrying them out runs up against a [...]
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