2002
Some stories
Asians do mix, say researchers
The idea that Asians 'self-segregate' has been challenged by researchers investigating housing in Leeds and Bradford.
17 December 2002 (491 words)
Birmingham asylum seeker takes his life
On 12 March, Mohsen Amri, an Iranian asylum seeker who had been dispersed to Birmingham by the London Borough of Haringey committed suicide after hearing that his asylum claim had been rejected.
16 December 2002 (47 words)
New Scottish detention centre opened
The Dungavel Detention Centre in South Lanarkshire, which is run by Premier Detention Services, is Scotland's only asylum prison.
16 December 2002 (203 words)
New reception arrangements to be phased in
In October 2001, the home secretary, David Blunkett, put forward his proposals to scrap 'the humiliating and demeaning voucher system', reform dispersal and overhaul current reception arrangements for asylum seekers.
16 December 2002 (413 words)
New law introduced
After attempts by the House of Lords to throw out some of the most repressive aspects of the Bill, the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act was passed with barely any opposition in the Commons in November 2002.
16 December 2002 (275 words)
Home Office research heralds 'managed migration' policy
The UK government has taken a step forward in its plans to establish a 'properly managed' scheme for economic migration to the UK.
11 December 2002 (541 words)
Tough questions at Climbié meeting
Norman Tutt, Director of Social Services at Ealing Council, faced hostile questioning at a public meeting organised to discuss the public inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbié.
10 December 2002 (534 words)
Britain at hub of child prostitution
According to a report by the End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking (ECPAT - UK), Britain has become a hub of a growing trade in children, mostly from west Africa, Nigeria and increasingly eastern and central Europe.
5 December 2002 (49 words)
Arbitrary detention condemned
Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) has called on the UN to investigate the plight of the thousands of asylum seekers and migrants who are indefinitely and arbitrarily detained in the UK each year.
1 December 2002 (118 words)
Home Secretary approves mosque raid to remove Afghani family
There was outrage after the home secretary approved a police operation to remove an Afghani family from a mosque where they had sought sanctuary.
1 December 2002 (62 words)
Snatch squads formed
In his White Paper proposals, Blunkett also announced a new protocol between the immigration service and the police service to step up the removal of illegal immigrants or failed asylum seekers no longer entitled to remain in Britain.
18 October 2002 (186 words)
Home Office films Roma deportations
There was criticism of the Home Office after it allowed TV crews to film the deportation of forty-nine failed asylum seekers, including a dozen children, on a special charter flight from Stanstead airport to the Czech Republic.
21 September 2002 (78 words)
Racism and prisons
Black prisoner killed in Long Lartin
5 September 2002 (107 words)
National Lottery attacked by government for supporting asylum NGO
The home secretary David Blunkett has been accused of political interference after attacking the National Lottery for funding the National Coalition of Anti-deportation Campaigns (NCADC).
1 September 2002 (215 words)
Asian prisoner challenges miscarriage of justice
Satpal Ram, whose case became a cause celebre, was released from prison in June on a life licence after having served fifteen years for the murder, in 1987, of Clarke Pearce in a Birmingham restaurant.
1 August 2002 (417 words)
The case of Satpal Ram
Satpal Ram, 20, was eating with two friends in a Bengali restaurant when six white people also arrived at the restaurant.
1 August 2002 (338 words)
Police officers acquitted in black death in custody case
Five police officers have been found not guilty of the manslaughter of Christopher Alder, a 37-year-old black former paratrooper who died on 1 April 1998 after being arrested by Hull police.
1 August 2002 (646 words)
North London synagogue attacked
Vandals attacked a Finsbury Park synagogue in one of the worst anti-Semitic attacks in recent years.
1 August 2002 (103 words)
Christian school teaches right-wing creationist theories
The government policy of funding for faith schools has been criticised after it was revealed that the Emmanuel City Technology College in Gateshead is teaching creationism - that human origins are (relatively) recent and divine - as opposed to scientific evolution, to explain our origins.
1 August 2002 (125 words)
Government ministers court controversy over depiction of asylum seekers and Muslims
Europe minister criticised for Muslim comments
1 August 2002 (202 words)