Asylum seekers and refugees
Recent News
A new report has found that migrants are being forced into working in threatening and inhumane conditions in the UK’s food industry.
The Independent Monitoring Board has recently criticised the UKBA for holding migrant children in ‘degrading and disgraceful’ conditions which included small, cramped rooms with a lack of adequate sleeping arrangements.
An asylum seeking father’s suicide in Holland for the sake of his children has highlighted the growing local-national divide over the deportation of children.
The ECHR has decided to allow the home secretary to deport Abu Qatada after rejecting his appeal, although it conceded that Qatada’s appeal had been made within the three-month time limit.
Recent Publications
October 7, 2010
Briefing Paper no. 4
Accelerated removals: a study of the human cost of EU deportation policies, 2009-2010 examines the 38 asylum and immigration-related deaths in Europe over an 18-month period and shows the human cost of EU moves to slash budgets for refugee integration and accelerate the pace of removals – thereby undermining international conventions.
April 15, 2010
Race & Class, April 2010
The April 2010 edition of the journal Race & Class leads with two articles analysing Europe's incarceration of 'foreign' prisoners, the first by Liz Fekete and Frances Webber, the second by Luk Vervaet; it also includes Jeremy Seabrook's account of marginal lives in the city of Barisal, Bangladesh.
February 12, 2010
Briefing Paper No. 2
Direct democracy, racism and the extreme Right documents forty cases, involving either petitions or citizens' initiative referenda, that have been held to curtail the basic rights of BME communities, asylum seekers, migrant workers, foreign residents and European Muslims. Drawing attention to the ways in which extreme-Right and anti-immigrant parties are manipulating particular forms of direct democracy in ways that put representative democracies under threat.
Upcoming Events
The AGM of Manchester based Refugee and Asylum Seeker Participatory Action Research (RAPAR).