Immigration - new material (81)
01 January 2006
"Managed migration" ignores rights of immigrants, Don Flynn. Labour Left Briefing March 2006, pp.18-19. Flynn discusses so-called "managed migration" (the "management of immigration in accordance with the needs of the British economy") the success of which is measured by the government hitting targets for "the removal from the country each month of more people than enter it to claim political asylum." He observes how the government's business-friendly approach results in "the arrest and detention of thousands of people, including whole families with young children" and "is taken as a quite acceptable mechanism for the routine management of the movement of people across national frontiers". He argues that the "logic of permitting immigrants entry when it was demonstrably in the interests of British employers has proven especially damaging to the interests of humanitarian migrants - refugees and others whose movement across international frontiers was forced through such reasons as environmental catastrophe or criminal trafficking."
Immigration law update, Alan Caskie. SCOLAG Legal Journal, February 2006, pp38-40. Review of significant court cases from Scotland and England in the fields of asylum, immigration and nationality law.
“Derechos humanos en la frontera Sur. Informe sobre la inmigración clandestina durante el año 2005”, Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de Andalucía, January 2006, pp.28. The latest annual report by APDHA, which focuses on policies to prevent the entry of migrants through Spain’s southern border and their implementation. Special emphasis is placed on events in Ceuta and Melilla, on the expulsion of 73 sub-Saharans to Morocco without giving them the opportunity to file asylum claims, on the reasons for which Africans choose to emigrate and on the detention of migrants who attempt the dinghy-crossing to Spain, alongside a detailed chart of the instances in which crossings have cost would-be migrants their lives. The number of verified deaths in 2005 is the highest ever (368, up from 288 in 2004) and the victims are predominantly sub-Saharan (267), although APDHA estimates that the actual number may be as high as 700. The role that Morocco is playing as the EU’s border guard is resulting in an “unbearable” situation for sub-Saharans, which is marked by constant harassment, raids and violence by the Moroccan public security forces in the border regions and large cities like Rabat or Casablanca, as well as expulsions which have seen migrants abandoned in the desert. Moroccan security forces have carried out large-scale operations to clear the woods where migrants camped out in Gourougu (near Melilla), and the army has also been involved in raids targeting migrants. Details are provided of the instances from August to October when attempts to cross the border fences of the Spanish north African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla resulted in deaths (16), drawing attention to the role played by the Guardia Civil (Spain’s paramilitary police force).
I tanti volti di una religione: l'islam in classe", Costanza Bargellini and Daniela Frascoli (eds.), Quaderni ISMU 1/2005, pp.127. Fondazione ISMU, Via Copernico 1, Milano 20125. This volume is the product of a seminar to reflect upon the role of Islam in schools, now that it is no longer a "foreign" reality in Italy. It seeks to provide an introduction to this culture and to reflect about possible models for education and schooling and the interaction between school and family life that take into account the needs of children from Muslim backgrounds. It features the transcript of a debate in which Michael Andenna, a student of Islam and Arab language teacher, answers a wide range of questions and tackles stereotypes about the Islamic faith, and is divided in sections about "Plural Islam", "Muslim boys and girls in class" and "Educational models and teaching methods".
!Percorsi di integrazione degli immigrati e politiche attive del lavoro, Marco Lombardi (ed.