Asylum Update – August 28th 2008

Research
The Centre for Research in Social Justice and Social Inclusion at the University of Hull has been commissioned to synthesise all the research over the past ten years relating to asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in Yorkshire and Humber. Email if able to assist with published or unpublished material, including grey literature and case studies.
HM Chief [...]

Asylum Update – August 22nd 2008

Research
The Home Office has published its latest quarterly and annual asylum and immigration statistics:
- Home Office Statistical Bulletin 11/08 – Asylum Statistics United Kingdom 2007 
- Control of Immigration: Quarterly Statistical Summary, United Kingdom – 2nd Quarter 2008 containing quarterly asylum statistics
- Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom 2007
See also press coverage
 
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons [...]

Asylum Update – August 13th 2008

Research
Global Health Advocacy Project has published Where’s the Consultation?, an analysis of previously undisclosed submissions to a 2004 Department of Health public consultation on ‘Proposals to Exclude Overseas Visitors from Eligibility to Free NHS Primary Medical Services.’ See also press coverage
Glasgow Anti Racist Alliance (GARA) has published State of the Nation – Race and Racism [...]

Asylum Update – August 6th 2008

Research
Earned Amnesty: Bringing Illegal Workers out of the Shadows is a new report from the CentreForum think-tank which in arguing for an ‘earned amnesty’ states that asylum seekers to make up a ‘significant proportion’ of undocumented migrants in the UK. See list of press coverage here
Unreasonably Destitute is a new report from the Asylum Support [...]