Asylum Update 25th March 2010
25 March 2010
Research
UNHCR has released its annual report Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries, 2009
The European Commission’s ‘Clandestino’ research project has released its final report on Undocumented Migration: Counting the Uncountable. Data and Trends
Living in limbo: forced migrant destitution in Europe is a new report from the Jesuit Refugee Service.
New report from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC): Refugees and asylum seekers: a review from an equality and human rights perspective
At the end of the line: restoring the integrity of the UK’s asylum system is a new report from the Refugee Council, which “aims to provide a detailed overview of the human and financial costs of the current system and to propose policy solutions which are humane, efficient and effective.”
HM Inspectorate of Prisons has released Report on an unannounced full follow-up inspection of Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre carried out in November 2009. See also press coverage of legal action over Yarl's Wood abuse claims.
Safe at Last? Children on the front line of UK Border Control is a Refugee Migrant Justice report into the problems faced by unaccompanied asylum seeking children on arrival in the UK. See also press release
The Home Office has published Report to the UK Border Agency on 'Outsourcing abuse' by Baroness Nuala O'Loan, on the alleged abuse of detained asylum seekers made in the 2008 report Outsourcing Abuse . See also coverage from the BBC and The Independent
Journal article: ‘Making a space for music in individual music therapy with an elderly refugee’ by Dunbar, N. in the British Journal of Music Therapy Vol 23 No 2.
Calls for papers:
- one day workshop on “the meaning and practice of immigration detention: perspectives from legal, political, and social theory” on May 21 organised by St Antony’s College, the Refugee Studies Centre, and COMPAS, the University of Oxford. Email Evelyne Massa for details.
- Forced Migration Review special supplement on HIV/AIDS, security and conflict; and issue 36 which will include a feature section on the Democratic Republic of Congo/Great Lakes. Both to be published in October 2010.
Law and policy
The 2010 UK Border Agency - FCO Strategy on International Immigration has been published by the Home Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office. See also press release
Events
Wednesday 31 March 2010: Praxis conference in London on working with undocumented migrants, also to launch their manual of the same name, written by Sue Lukes.