Immigration - new material (76)
01 January 2005
Asylum, Immigration & Nationality Law, Alan Caskie. Scolag Legal Journal Issue 328 (February) 2005, pp. 29-34. This piece considers "Freedom of Movement", "Human Rights Issues", "Race Relations", "Asylum" and "Procedure".
Per una nuova disciplina della cittadinanza, Ennio Codini & Marina D'Odorico. Quaderni ISMU 2004, (Fondazione ISMU Iniziative e Studi sulla Multietnicità), pp. 167, Via Galvani 16, 20125 Milan, Italy. This study examines the granting of citizenship in Italy, calling for a re-assessment of this regime, which is currently based on ius sanguinis (blood and nationality of the parents) rather than ius soli (where a person is born or resides). The authors note that although Italian legislation in this field is relatively recent (law n. 91/1992), "it was born old", because the focus on ius sanguinis is deemed to be characteristic of countries of emigration (as Italy was until very recently) rather than countries receiving immigrants, such as Italy at present. This, and lowering the requirement of ten years' residence to be granted citizenship to five, are seen as crucial to allow migrants to exercise their political rights in the communities in which they live, and to fulfil the principle of "no taxation without representation", whereby certain rights should result from the financial contribution that migrant workers make to the countries in which they live through their work and taxes. The study includes a comparative analysis of regimes for the granting of citizenship in EU countries, and a wealth of documentation, legislation and charts.
Unaccompanied asylum-seekers: making a lawful age assessment, Robert Latham. Legal Action January 2005, pp20-24. This piece examines how officials decide whether an unaccompanied, undocumented asylum-seeker is aged 18 or not, an increasingly important issue given the impact of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, which excludes asylum-seeking children from the National Asylum-Seekers Support Service Regime.
The detention of asylum seekers in the UK, Margaret S. Malloch & Elizabeth Stanley. Punishment & Society Vol. 7 no 1 (January) 2005. pp. 53-71. This article considers the media and political representation of asylum seekers as criminals and the role of detention as "a punitive method to assuage public fears concerning supposed "risk" and potential dangers to "security"."
La regolarizzazione degli stranieri. Nuovi attori nel mercato del lavoro italiano, Eugenio Zucchetti (ed.). Fondazione ISMU Iniziative e Studi sulla Multietnicità, pp.443, November 2004. An in-depth study of the regularisation of undocumented migrant workers that was carried out by the Italian government in 2002, which resulted in 701,906 applications being filed involving 705,413 migrant workers, of which 644,083 (91.3%) were accepted and over 50,000 were rejected. A wealth of statistics are provided concerning the cities and regions where the applications were filed, the kind of employment they were involved in (372,454 applications for subordinate work, 189,216 for domestic work, and 140,236 for care work), their nationality and their contractual and wage conditions. The cities where the most applications were filed were Rome (107,226), Milan (87,093), Naples (36,914), Turin (36,038) and Brescia (24,384), and the migrant workers applying for regularisation were mostly Romanian (142,963), Ukrainian (106,633), Albanian (54,075) and Moroccan (53,476) citizens, and over 30,000 citizens of Ecuador, China, Poland and Moldova also applied. The different chapters of the book offer an overview of what is referred to as the "great regularisation", as well as in-depth studies of its effects in four different provinces (Milan, Vicenza, Rome and Naples), which include sketches of the cities' migrant communities, both in terms of their numbers and patterns of employment. Eugenio Zucchetti highlights that periodic regularisations are becoming a central "pillar" of Italian immigration policy* (there were four