Asylum Update 2nd June 2010
2 June 2010
Research
Amnesty International has released Report 2010: the state of the world’s human rights See also press release
The International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) and the International Rescue Committee (IRC) have jointly published the report 10,000 refugees from Iraq: A report on joint resettlement in the European Union See also press release
New Home Office statistics include
- Control of Immigration: Quarterly Statistical Summary January – March 2010. Includes removals and voluntary departures by ‘harm assessment category’ for the financial year 2009/10. See also Refugee Council response
- British Citizenship Statistics United Kingdom, 2009
The journal FQS Vol 11 (2) has a special section on the theme of 'Visualising migration and social division' and includes Representing Immigration Detainees: The Juxtaposition of Image and Sound in "Border Country" by Melanie Friend.
The Exclusion of (Failed) Asylum Seekers from Housing and Home: Towards an Oppositional Discourse by O'Mahony, L. F.; Sweeney, J. A. in Journal of Law and Society Vol 37 No 2.
Crossing borders: academic refugee women, education and the British Federation of University Women during the Nazi era by Susan Cohen in History of Education Vol 39 No 2.
Child refugees, trauma and education: interactionist considerations on social and emotional needs and development by Robert Hart in Educational Psychology in Practice Vol 25 No 4.
Classification of Horn of Africa school children: is it appropriate for the educational authorities in England to refer to them as refugees? by Kuyok Abul Kuyok in Intercultural Education Vol 21 No 1.
Health notes: The effects of immigration detention on the health of children and families in the UK by Fillmore, E. in Adoption and Fostering Vol 34 No 1.
The Home Office has published new Country of Origin Information Reports in the last two months on Afghanistan, Somalia and Vietnam as well as a number of ‘key documents’ on countries producing fewer asylum applications.
Law and policy
The European Migration Network (EMN) published this month it’s Synthesis Report on Policies on Reception, Return and Integration arrangements for, and numbers of, Unaccompanied Minors – an EU comparative study
2009 Annual report of the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre.
International Journal of Refugee Law Vol 22 No 2 includes Robert Thomas’s ‘Report on a Roundtable Seminar: ‘Asylum Adjudication and Country Guidance: Function, Operation, and Future.’’
An alliance of major charities and faith leaders has appealed to the Ministry of Justice to prevent the closure of immigration lawyers Refugee and Migrant Justice due to payments owed by the Legal Services Commission. See also The Guardian
New from UNHCR: Eligibility Guidelines for Assessing the International Protection Needs of Asylum-Seekers from Colombia
Events
Thursday 3 June: Zaylai Books launch event at De Montfort University, Leicester. Publisher of Somali and Arabic books working with the local library service.
Monday 14 – Sunday 20 June: UK Refugee Week with events across the country.
Thursday 17 June: Education without Borders: Community Engagement and Human Rights Conference conference in Bristol. Organised by the University of the West of England Refugee and Migrant Support Hub.
Friday 18 June: Understanding the refugee experience one day symposium, including sessions on research on refugees in Wales and refugees in British literature, Swansea. Organized by the Centre for Migration Policy Research
Friday 18 - Sunday 20 June: Refuge in Films 2O1O Annual Film Festival in London. Organized by young refugees.
Tuesday 22nd June: ICAR seminar with Dr Liza Schuster (City University). Last in our series on Researching Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Migrants.
Tuesday 22nd June: Child Health and Well-Being: Improving Services for Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children conference, London.
Wednesday 23 June: Excellence in Managing Complaints and Advocacy in Services to Vulnerable Children and Young People conference in London. Organised by the Care Matters Partnership.
Wednesday 23 June: conference on Making Migration Work for all in London. Organised by Migrants Rights Network
Tuesday 29 – Wednesday 30 June: Civic, Political and Cultural Engagement Among Migrants, Minorities and National Populations: Multidisciplinary Perspectives conference at the University of Surrey, hosted by the Runnymede Trust and CRONEM.
Monday 5 – Wednesday 7 July: LGBTI Asylum Seekers & Refugees: A Case of Double Jeopardy? conference, London.
Thursday 15th July 2010: Public Policy Exchange conference: Community Cohesion 2010: New Challenges, New Solutions
Wednesday 21 July: The New Immigration Agenda - developments in post election policy Immigration Advisory Service conference in London.