Immigration - new material (80)
01 September 2005
Control of Immigration: Statistics, United Kingdom, 2004, Jill Dudley, Mike Roughton, James Fidler and Simon Woollacot. Home Office Statistical Bulletin, 14/05, 23.8.05, pp. 44.
Asylum - Blair offensive, Nadine Finch. Labour Left Briefing September 2005, p10. Finch considers the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill 2005 which, together with the government's Five Year Plan on Asylum, "seeks to make real inroads into the type and length of protection the UK will offer asylum seekers." She concludes: "The story behind the new legislation is an immense unfolding personal tragedy for vast numbers of people. We must campaign on behalf of the individuals and we must unite the labour movement in opposition to the draconian laws which New Labour seeks to impose."
La salute degli immigrati in Lombardia (The health of immigrants in Lombardy), Nicola Pasini (ed.), ISMU, Milan, December 2004, pp.249, and Salute e immigrazione (Health and immigration), Nicola Pasini and Mario Picozzi (eds.), ISMU, Franco Angeli, Milan 2005, pp. 269. Two books focusing on the issue of immigration and health. The first one offers an overview of the health conditions of immigrants in Lombardy, with a special emphasis on women and children, analysing the problems and prospects for improvement as well as presenting some field research carried out in different medical centres in the northern region of Lombardy. The second book seeks to set guidelines for the development of a transcultural medical model in response to the presence of people from diverse cultural backgrounds in Italian society. Includes essays on the experiences of nurses and on the different issues giving rise to communication problems between doctors and immigrant patients, from linguistic to cultural concerns. Both available from: Fondazione ISMU, Via Copernico, 1 -20125 Milan, Italy.
We want to live a fair and equal life. Refugees take to the streets. Bavarian Refugee Council (BFR) Infodienst, no4, Aug-Oct 2005, ISSN 1611-8138, pp39. This issue of the BFR bulletin focuses on refugee protests in Bavaria, against their quasi-internment and the food package system for asylum seekers as well as against their social isolation and deportation. Interviews with asylum-seekers highlight the political persecution in counties of origin as well as the degrading living situation refugees in Germany are forced into. Whilst the acceptance rate of asylum applications in Bavaria continues to remain under 1%, those interviewed, waiting for their claim to be assessed, report their lives are made unbearable by being forced to lead a non-cash existence in prison-like accommodation systems. On 24 September Germany saw nationwide demonstrations against and demand for inspections of refugee prisons (Lager system) and self-organised refugee groups continue to demonstrate and bring legal cases against restrictive asylum laws, the latest of which was a demonstration in Neuburg initiated by the refugee group Karawane Munich. Available from: bfr@ibu.de, tel:0049-89-762234.
Asylum Statistics: United Kingdom 2004, Tim Heath and Richard Jeffries. Home Office Statistical Bulletin, 13/05, 23.8.05, pp. 94.
Immigration Law Update, Alan Caskie. SCOLAG Legal Journal issue 334 (August) 2005, pp. 178-180 & 182. Review of significant cases from Scotland and England in the fields of asylum, immigration and law.
La situación de los refugiados en España (The situation of refugees in Spain), Report for 2005 by the Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado (CEAR), Catarata, 2005 ISBN 84-8319-228-4, pp. 285, Euro 18. This annual report is a useful resource to examine the situation of asylum seekers in Spain, containing a wealth of statistics and analysis. It is structured into chapters which follow different stages in the quest to be granted asylum and to be recognised as a refugee. Starting from the reasons for which refugees flee their countries (with articles on Colombia, Nigeria, Russia, Algeria and Equatorial Guine