Immigration - new material (86)
01 October 2007
Women Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK. ICAR Briefing, July 2007, pp 15. This briefing addresses four key issues relating to refugee women: the introduction of gender guidelines, female genital mutilation, the trafficking of women and women in detention. The Information Centre: Asylum and Refugees in the UK : http://www.iocar.org.uk
Workers, Serfs and Slaves: managed migration and employment rights, Steve Cohen. Legal Action August 2007, pp 9-10. Cohen considers the government's policy of so-called "managed migration" and the relationship between immigration status and employment rights observing that the mechanisms of immigration control are changing as the "agents and enforcers of controls are becoming employers. They are the managers of New Labour's 'managed migration'." Cohen says: "Whatever the merits of ex-Prime Minister Blair's retrospective apology for Britain's role in the slave trade, it would be less hypocritical if the government was not developing a modern system of slavery through the reshaping of immigration controls."
Undocumented Migrant Workers Have Rights! An Overview of the International Human Rights Framework, Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants, March 2007, 52pp. The human rights of undocumented migrants are articulated within a variety of instruments and treaties on both the international and regional levels. This publication provides a clear picture of the different instruments that specifically relate to undocumented migrants, within the international human rights framework as well as those on the European level and clarifies why and how these instruments uphold the human rights of undocumented migrants. Available as a free PDF download at http://www.picum.org
Immigration Law Update, Alan Caskie. SCOLAG Legal Journal Issue 355 and 358 (May and August) 2007, pp 106-109 and 174-177. These articles review significant cases in the field of asylum, immigration and nationality law from England and Scotland. SCOLAG, 148 Muirdrun Avenue, Glasgow G52 3AP, admin@scoloag.org
Refugees Number 146 Issue 2, 2007 (ISSN 0252-791X). This issue covers Iraq and the plight of the several million refugees who have been displaced by the Anglo-American invasion. Published by the UNHCR, PO Box 2500, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland; http://www.unhcr.org
"Beyond Comprehension and decency". Medical Justice July 2007, pp20. Medical Justice was formed two years ago, and this pamphlet was produced to accompany the organisation's fundraising party at Cargo on 3 July which was supported by a wide range of world acts including the ZongZing All Stars from the Congo, the Asian Dub Foundation Soundsystem and the dancehall dj's, Heatwave. The organisation was formed following a mass hunger-strike by over 100 Zimbabweans detained in Harmsondsworth Immigration Removal Centre in July 2005, to facilitate the provision of independent medical and legal advice to asylum seekers detained in immigration removal centres. Dependent on donations, Medical Justice's work has assisted over 500 individuals held in detention and brings together "a unique and exciting collaboration between asylum seekers, ex-detainees, solicitors, barristers, doctors, nurses, campaigners, detention centre visitors and other volunteers." Membership for asylum seekers and ex-detainees is free while the waged rate is £10 for each £3,000 of your salary. Medical Justice can be contacted by phone (0207 561 7498) and email info@medicaljustice.org.uk
Mugak no. 39 (April-June) 2007, pp.75, Euros 6. Looks at education and linguistic models, with a special focus on the schooling of pupils with immigrant origins, as well as illustrating a claim against the "inhumane" conduct of the Spanish and European administrations in their implementation of controls on immigration. It draws on a number of recent events, concluding that FRONTEX has increased the loss of human lives at sea, that rights and laws are regularly contravened (particularly in the