Immigration - new work
01 August 2002
Estadisticas, delito e inmigrantes, Mugak, no 19 2002, pp60. This issue aims to deconstruct the link between Spanish immigrants and crime that has been pursued by the media, government and public authorities in the wake of figures indicating a rise in crime. The government attributed this increase to the rising number of immigrants, although they exaggerated the increase in the number of crimes committed by immigrants, the number of immigrants arrested for criminal conduct, and ignored the nature of crimes such as illegal residence. On the other hand, they failed to note that in 1998-2000 the increase in the number of immigrants had been substantially higher, yet figures concerning crime levels indicated a substantial decrease. In that instance, figures concerning crime were not linked to immigration. The issue also carries: a letter to president Aznar from an Argentinian citizen who has been expelled from Spain, a press review section and an analysis of the prison population in Sangonera showing how statistics can be manipulated are also included. Available from: Centro de Estudios y Documentacion sobre racismo y xenofobía, Peña y Goni, 13 - 1º -20002 San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain.
Marokko - Transit NON Stop. Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht & Migration (FFM) and Solidarité sans frontières (Research Centre for Flight & Migration (Berlin) and Solidarité sans frontières (Bern)) ISBN 3-935936-10-9, pp 159, 2002, 9 Euro. This publication is the sixth in a series of research books published by the FFM based on qualitative and quantitative research on flight and migration in the EU's neighbouring, so-called transit countries. A common theme of the publications is the EU's common asylum and migration policies and their impact on migrants and refugees ("origin" or "transit") in neighbouring countries. The present research on Morocco provides impressive detail and analysis of the situation of refugees and migrants, based on several hundred interviews (including those conducted by other human rights and migrants organisations), as well as doing justice to the reality of women and children. Finally, the book addresses the role non-governmental or humanitarian organisations who increasingly aid the state in the implementation of the global migration regime that EU ministers and officials have developed since the 1970's. Available from: Assoziation A, Gneisenaustr. 2a, 10961 Berlin, Germany.
Making an Asylum Application: A best practice guide, Jane Coker, Garry Kelly & Martin Soorjoo. Immigration Law Practicioners' Association (ILPA) May 2002, pp.132.
Asylum statistics United Kingdom 2001. Home Office Statistical Bulletin 09/02 (31 July 2002), pp62 (ISSN 1358-510X).