Immigration - new material (29)
01 December 1997
After the Act: exploring the residual rights of destitute asylum- seekers Sue Willman Legal Action January 1997 pp12-14. On the withdrawal of state support from "persons subject to immigration control" under the Asylum & Immigration Act 1996 and the Housing Act 1996.
Asylum-seekers: caught by the Act. CARF No. 35 (December 1996- January 1997) pp4-6. This piece examines the governments decision to remove basic benefits from in-country and rejected asylum- seekers and the implications of the High Court ruling that local authorities have a duty to provide the basics for survival.
Asylum seekers. Eurostat No. 2 1996 pp11. This quarterly bulletin provides "an overview of the evolution of asylum seeking in Europe during the first six months of 1996 and a comparison with the situation during the first six months of 1995."
NCADC Newsletter. National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns No. 5 (January/February) 1997. This issue includes a round-up of developments in recent cases - Prakesh Chavrimootoo and Teslim Lasoye - and pieces on bail applications the European Court and areas of British immigration policy in pressing need of reform.
Bundesdeutsche Fluechtlingspolitik und ihre toedlichen Folgen, Januar 1993 bis Januar 1997 (German refugee policy and its fatal consequences. January 1993 to January 1997) Antiracist Initiative Berlin pp.30 4DM. Fax: 0049-30-7869984.
Refugees and national security Pierre Makhlouf. Socialist Lawyer Winter 1996 pp16-17.
Sweden: Swedish asylum policy in global human rights perspective
Human Rights Watch/Helsinki September 1996 34 pages.
Parliamentary debates
Statement of changes to immigration rules Lords 9.12.96. cols
916-930 HMP Rochester (Hunger strikers) Commons 29.1.97. cols. 359-368