Immigration - new material (44)
01 September 1999
Would you allow this man to run our prisons? Nick Cohen. Observer 29.8.99. This piece examines the record of Group 4 at Campsfield detention centre - who give "a convincing impression of the police service of a banana republic" - and the even more sinister record of Burns International Security Services, the US conglomerate who have been given the contract to run the centre at Heathrow.
Report on the joint OSCE/ODIHR-Council of Europe field mission on the situation of Roma/Gypsies in Kosovo (27.7-6.8.1999.). Criticises the persecution Roma/Gypsies face after the war and the unbearable living conditions in the "internally displaced persons" camps as well as a general lack of protection by the United Nations Security Forces (KFOR). It recommends a recognition of Roma from Kosovo under the Geneva Refugee Convention, including non-refoulement for those already in western Europe. A plan of action was drawn up at the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Roma and Sinti Issues (Vienna, 6.9.99) and at the eighth meeting of the Council of Europe Specialist Group on Roma/Gypsies (Sofia, 20-23.9.99).
Migrations Europe. Centre d'information et d'etudes sur les migrations internationales & Migration Policy Group, No.96 (August) 1999. Comprehensive survey of EU migration policies and news on refugee and asylum issues, clandestine immigration and racism across Europe. Reports include news of Greek plans to deploy satellites and 2,500 specially trained police to monitor borders, a German tribunal's decision to make the employer of a Yugoslav asylum seeker who had no work permit pay the full costs of the latter's deportation and Italy's decision to apply the provisions of its readmission agreement with Switzerland, before the agreement had been ratified by the Italian parliament.
Parliamentary debates
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; Commons 16.6.99. cols. 396-531; Lords 29.6.99. cols. 176-257; Lords 8.7.99. cols. 1024-1925; Lords 12.7.99. cols. 11-80, 96-164; Lords 19.7.99. cols. 662-730; Lords 19.7.99. cols. 746-804; Lords 21.7.99. cols. 976-1048; Lords 21.7.99. cols. 1064-1126; Lords 28.7.99. cols. 1531-1598; Lords 28.7.99. cols. 1613-1668.d