Immigration - new material (25)
01 December 1996
Polen: Vor den Toren der Festung Europa [Poland: Before the gates of Fortress Europe] Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht und Migration (ed) 1995 Berlin no 1. 64pp 14 -DM ISBN 3-924737-26-6. Very little is known about the situation of migrants and refugees who have been deported from Germany to Poland under the 1993 readmission agreement. In early 1995 FFM conducted interviews in Poland to gather information on the Polish asylum system, living conditions of and prospects for migrants and refugees, most with an irregular status as only very few people apply for asylum.
Rumaenien: Vor den Toren der Festung Europa [Rumania: Before the gates of Fortress Europe] Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht und Migration (ed) 1995 Berlin no 2. 14 -DM ISBN 3-924737-28-2. Rumania a transit country half way between the Middle East and Germany has become the most important "deportation country" for Germany since the readmission agreement in 1992. An analysis of the repressive Rumanian minority and immigration policy is complemented by interviews and accounts of deportees and people who are about to migrate to Germany. FFM im Mehringhof, Gneisenaustraáe 2a D-10961 Berlin fax:0049-30-6938318.
Bundesdeutsche Fluechtlingspolitik und ihre toedlichen Folgen [German refugee policy and its fatal consequences] Antirassistische Initiative 1996 Berlin. 24pp 3 -DM fax: 0049-30-7869984. Chronology of arson and racist attacks from January 1993 to April 1996 as well as analysis of German refugee policy. Conclusion of the brochure: more people have been killed through the refugee policy of the FRG than through racist attacks.
tranger et citoyen. Les immigr‚s et la d‚mocracie locale [Foreigner and citizen. Immigrants and local democracy] Bernard Delemotte Jaques Chevalier (eds) 1996 Paris L'Harmattan, 174pp FF96 - ISBN 2-7384-4164-5. This book addresses the question: which form of political participation of immigrants is currently possible and desirable in the local community. Included are seven case studies of French towns with elected representatives of foreigners in the town councils and one chapter on Belgium.
Rapport d'une mission internationale d'enquete de la FIDH sur la situation des etrangers et demandeurs d'asile en France [Report on an international investigation of the International Federation of Human Rights League on the situation of foreigners and asylum seekers in France] FIDH June 1996 Paris. FF25 - fax: 0033-1- 43551880. The first part of the report deals with removal procedures of foreigners the second part with the treatment of asylum seekers and accuses France of human rights violation regarding their protection. It concludes with 14 recommendations regarding asylum law non-refoulment refugee definition, treatment of detainees and fair hearings.
Parliamentary debates
Asylum & Immigration Bill Lords 20.6.96. cols 458-514 & cols 522-586; 24.6.96. cols 596-607 620-657 671-756 Asylum Seekers (Benefits) Commons 24.6.96. cols. 37-48 Asylum & Immigration Bill Lords 1.7.96. cols 1217-1279 1284- 1294; 2.7.96. cols. 1306-1379 Asylum & Immigration Bill Commons 15.7.96. cols. 807-893 Asylum & Immigration Bill Lords 22.7.96. cols. 1176-1216