Immigration - new material (58)
01 November 2002
Starting again - young asylum seekers views on life in Glasgow. Save the Children and Glasgow City Council Education Services (2002) pp.32. This publication is timely in light of the recent changes introduced by the UK Asylum Bill, which will force asylum seekers' children outside the mainstream schooling system and into separate schooling in detention/dispersal centres. Based on interviews with 738 young asylum-seekers (aged 5-18) from 1,231 enrolled in Glasgow's primary and secondary schools, this report identifies key issues experienced by children and proposes recommendations to central and local government with regards to the dispersal programme. The report finds that school is "the highlight of many young asylum-seekers' lives" as well as pointing to the "importance of making friends and finding opportunities to socialise and play". Based on a mainstream schooling system, the "importance of learning English to achieve at school and socialise successfully" is also highlighted. Both these will not be possible any more in a system where children of 54 different nationalities and 40 different languages will be educated in an "apartheid" schooling system. Available from: Save the Children, Ingram House, 227 Ingram Street, Glasgow G1 1DA, Tel: 0044 141 248 4345.
Imigración, racismo y xenofobia, analisis de prensa, Mugak, Centro de Estudios y Documentación sobre racismo y xenofobia and SOS Arrazakeria. This new publication compiles a review of press articles concerning immigration in Spain, Navarra, the Basque Country and the EU appearing in a selection of national, regional and local newspapers. It includes quarterly resumés serving as introductions to lists of the titles of articles divided by subject. There is a listing of editorials, and two features deconstruct a number of government and media claims about the link between immigration and delinquency. Available from Peña y Goñi 13-1º 20002 Donostia, e-mail: hiruga01@sarenet.es
Anonimato y ciudadanía, Mugak, no. 20, 3rd quarter 2002, Centro de Estudios y Documentación sobre racismo y xenofobía, pp.60, (5 Euros). This issue includes essays on the complexity and cultural diversity that can be found within societies that contradicts simplistic one-dimensional views, looks at the issue of anonymity as an important facet of citizenship, on the relationship between globalisation and integration and on the relationship between being foreign nationality and citizenship. An analysis of events in Seville in the summer, including a demonstration on 22 June and an immigrant lock-in in Seville´s Pablo de Olavide University (see Statewatch vol 12 no 5) that started in June and ended with a police raid during which 270 immigrants were arrested, many of whom have been expelled. A round-up of developments in immigration policy around Europe is also included. Available from Peña y Goñi 13-1º 20002 Donostia, e-mail: hiruga01@sarenet.es
Report on migrations in Lombardy 2001. Osservatorio Regionale per l'integrazione e la multietnicità, July 2002, pp222. This report results from the establishment in 2000 of a regional observatory on migration in Lombardy to gather information, to understand crucial aspects of immigration, to monitor the effects of policies and to establish a databank. It provides a wealth of statistical information and analysis, including a regional survey that estimates that between 405,000 and 435,000 foreigners are present in Lombardy, over 330,000 of whom are regularised, with a similarly large proportion (near to 100,000) of Asians (particularly in Milan and Como), North Africans (Bergamo and Mantova) and East Europeans (Varese, Brescia, Pavia, Cremona, Lecco and Lodi). Moroccans are the largest national group, followed by Albanians. Other chapters deal with work, housing, health, school attendance, reception and integration, and "non profit organisations for migrants". Available from Fondazione ISMU, Foro Buonaparte, 22 - 20121 Milano, Italy.