Immigration - new material (33)
01 December 1997
Recent developments in immigration law Jawaid Luqmani Chris Randall & Rick Scannell. Legal Action November 1997 pp21-25. Latest update of developments in immigration legislation, practice and case-law.
Control of Immigration: statistics United Kingdom First Half 1997 Keith Jackson & Andy Bennett. Statistical Bulletin 26/97 (Home Office) 1997.
How Britain imprisons Refugees: Information on Campsfield Andrew Hornsby-Smith Sarah Woodhouse & Suke Wolton. Campaign to Close Campsfield 1997 pp22. This useful pamphlet is produced by the Campaign to Close Campsfield which monitors the privately run Group 4 detention centre near Oxford. It contains useful chapters on: Immigration procedure in Britain detention and a history of immigration legislation plus a case study useful addresses and a brief history of the campaign. Available from: CCC c/o 111 Magdalen Road Oxford OX4.
Exile: Newsletter of the Refugee Council No. 99 (July-August) 1997 pp4. This issue contains pieces on asylum myths the introduction of a visa requirement for Colombians coming to the UK and the "ignorance discrimination and bureaucratic petty- mindedness" that prevents skilled refugees from finding work.
NCADC Newsletter Issue 8 (October-December) 1997 pp12. Latest issue contains updates on campaigns and articles on "Women and immigration controls" asylum seekers in Holland and pieces on France Austria and Canada.
Positively racist: HIV/AIDS and Immigration control. No One is Illegal No. 21 (Summer) 1997 pp2-3. This article tackles the myth of AIDS as the "new global black plague" and considers the history of racist immigration controls from the Commonwealth Immigrants Act of 1962.
The Netherlands: A Critique of Policies and Practices regarding asylum seekers refugees and illegal aliens. Human Rights Watch/Helsinki September 1997 70 pages.
Walls to the East. Euroviews Spring 1997. Annual publication by the Danish School of Journalism. This issue contains useful articles on Fortress Europe. Available from: Danish School of Journalism Olaf Palme All 11 DK-8200 Aarhus N Denmark.
Parliamentary debate
Special Immigration Appeals Commission Bill Commons 30.10.97
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