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01 December 1996

Moroccan workers in Gibraltar International Centre for Trade Union Rights. ICTUR 1996 pp24 3. This is a report of an ICTUR delegation to Gibraltar in 1995 which concludes that the Moroccan workforce in Gibraltar "face systematic discrimination in most areas of their lives". Available from ICTUR 177 Abbeville Road, London SW4 4700.

Refusal rates rise again. Exile No. 92 (May/June) 1996 p3

Statistics for the first three months of 1996 indicate that while applications for asylum have stayed the same the percentage of those being refused stands at a 10-year high of 81%.

Migrants Against AIDS HIV Vol 1 no. 2 1995. This is a new monthly European newsletter about migrant refugee and black communities AIDS activism. Available in the UK c/o Migrant Media, 90 De Beauvoir Road London N1 4EN.

Refugee kids - no escape from fear. Labour Research Vol. 85 no. 4 (April) 1996 pp17-18. On the government's Asylum & Immigration Bill and the detrimental effects it will have on migrant children particularly their education.

Asylum-seekers in Europe 1985-1995. Statistics in Focus 1996/1, Eurostat 12 pages. Shows that asylum applications in the EU reached a peak in 1992 and has been dropping ever since.

The roots of racist immigration in Britain Alfred Banya. The African No. 3 (March) 1996 pp11-12. This piece focuses on how both Labour and Conservative governments have played the race card for electoral purposes.

Ghosts in the fortress. Migrants Against AIDS HIV Volume 1 no. 3 (May) 1996 pp1-3. Thoughtful piece on the plight of North African migrants who are forced into acting as drug couriers or prostitutes in Holland and France.

Parliamentary debates

Asylum and Immigration Bill Lords 23.4.96. cols 1027-1128; 30.4.96. cols 1476-1544; 30.4.96. cols 1558-1642; 2.5.96. cols 1752-1801; 2.5.96. cols 1807-1854; 9.5.96. cols 216-264; 9.5.96 cols 269-316.<