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01 August 2006

Driven to Desperate Measures. Institute of Race Relations, September 2006, pp 28. This is an important database of 221 asylum seekers and migrants who have died in the UK or in attempting to reach the UK during the past 17 years. As this tragic roll call of death says in its introduction: "No section of our society is more vulnerable than asylum seekers and undocumented migrants. Forced by circumstances beyond their control to seek a life outside their home countries, prevented by our laws from entering legally and from working, denied a fair hearing by the asylum system, excluded from health and safety protection at work, kept from social care and welfare, unhoused and destitute, vilified by the media and therefore dehumanised in the popular imagination, their hopes of another life are finally extinguished." Available from the IRR, 2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS, Website: www.irr.org.uk

Regulating Rights, Recognising Responsibilities: the case for regularising irregular migrants. Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, July 2006, pp 52. This report calls for a cross-party political consensus on a regularisation programme to address the predicament of up to 570,000 people living irregularly in the UK - including those who have overstayed work and student visas, failed asylum seekers and trafficked persons -who are deprived of full rights and vulnerable to exploitation because of their immigration status. JCWI, 115 Old Street, London EC1V 9RT; the report is available to download at: http://www.jcwi.org.uk/news/RegularisationReport.pdf