Immigration - new material (43)
01 May 1999
Licence to kill. CARF No 50 (June/July) 1999, pp2-3. This article investigates the death, by asphyxiation during his deportation from Austria, of Nigerian asylum-seeker, Marcus Omofuma. It also considers four other deportation deaths from Fortress Europe and warns of the "Belgian solution", where military or private planes are used in place of commercial flights.
Roma Rights Newsletter. European Roma Rights Centre, no 1, 1999. Covers legal defence cases, expulsions of Roma from the Czech and Slovak republics, racism in Italy and France as well as practical information on grants and scholarships. Includes "Roma and the Treaty of Amsterdam: safe European home?", a critique of the Maastricht and Amsterdam Treaties with a view of how Roma and other European non-territorial minorities will be adversely affected in such areas as border crossing, limited stay, asylum, immigration and long-term settlement. Available from: ERRC, H-1525 Budapest 114, PO Box 10/24, Hungary.
Bundesdeutsche Fluechtlingspolitik und ihre toedlichen Folgen - Dokumentation 1993 bis 1998 [German refugee politics and their deadly consequences]. Compiled by Antirassistische Initiative Berlin, 1999. Examines deaths and injuries resulting from asylum seekers' attempts to cross borders into Germany, refugee suicides and suicide attempts and deaths and injuries (in countries of origin) resulting from forced deportations. The greatest number of cases consist of racist attacks on homes for asylum seekers and towards refugees on Germany's streets. Available from: Yorckstr. 59, 10965 Berlin, Tel:0049(0)30-7857281, Fax:0049(0)30-7869984, e-mail:ART-B@VLBerlin.comlink.de
Menschenrechte fuer Kinderfluechtlinge (Human rights for child refugees). asylkoordination, 2/99. A compilation of articles by the Campaign for Human Rights for Child Refugees criticising the treatment of child refugees in Austria, Germany and Italy. Includes country reports, an article on the psychological aspect of being an unaccompanied child refugee as well as a critique of inadequate representation and legal safeguards. Available from: Schottengasse 3a, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Comments on Immigration and Asylum Bill Refugee Women's Legal Group, c/o ILPA, Lindsay House, 40-42 Charterhouse Street, London EC 1, Fax: 0171 251 8384
Recent developments in immigration law, Jawaid Luqmani, Chris Randall and Rick Scannell. Legal Action July 1999, pp10-14. Latest update in immigration developments includes a detailed analysis of the judgement in Shah and Islam.
Parliamentary debates
Kosovo Refugees Commons 5.5.99. cols. 943-952
British Child Migrants Commons 19.5.99. cols. 979-998
Health Bill [Lords] and Immigration and Asylum Bill (Allocation of Time), Commons, 15.6.99. cols. 174-222
Immigration and Asylum Bill, Commons, 15.6.99. cols. 267-297
Immigration and Asylum Bill, Commons, 16.6.99. cols. 396-531
Immigration and Asylum Bill, Lords, 29.6.99. cols. 176-257
Immigration and Asylum Bill, Lords, 8.7.99. cols. 1024-1925