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Being Heard: Human Rights and Asylum Conference
Dear Colleague, We are delighted to invite you to the Being Heard: Human Rights and Asylum Conference. This not to be missed event takes place on the 21st of September 2010 at the University of Leicester, Kathryn & Henry May Lecture theatre from 9am to 4:30pm Asylum has become an increasingly polemical issue used by the media and politicians to fuel fears. The language used and the stories that are told are often partisan, giving a biased or partial account. The aim of this conference is to explore how ‘asylum stories’ change in a shifting economic and political context; how ‘asylum stories’ ...
SA to resume deporting Zimbabweans
South Africa is to start expelling Zimbabweans again, from 31 December, the government has announced, ending their special status. The deportations were halted in April 2009 following an influx of those fleeing political instability and economic meltdown in Zimbabwe. An estimated two million Zimbabweans are thought to be in South Africa. Their presence is one reason cited for outbreaks of xenophobic attacks in recent years. Sixty-two people were killed in such attacks in 2008 and there were fears of renewed violence after the end of the football World Cup in July. Human rights groups have condemned the South African government's decision, the Associated Press news ...
Stoking paranoia about migration
The gap between the reality of the Office of National Statistics quarterly migration statistics and the knee-jerkery of much of the media (and not just the tabloids) is as predictable as it is disturbing. Here are some condensed facts. Estimated total long-term emigration from the UK in the year to December 2009 was 371,000. This is 13% lower than the final estimate of 427,000 in the year to December 2008, and along with a 35 per cent increase in student visas (362,015 issued), bringing millions of pounds into the country, explains the rise in net migration ...
Black communities suffer huge lack of green space
By John Vidal Predominantly white communities have 11 times more parks, gardens and playing fields than ethnic minority neighbourhoods, research shows. Predominantly white neighbourhoods have 11 times more green space such as parks, gardens and playing fields than those where 40% of residents are black or ethnic minority, new research from a government agency shows. The inequality between ethnic mixes seen in local environments is even more stark than those in schooling, crime, housing, jobs and health, according to Cabe, the government's advisory body on architecture, urban design and public space. Read more
Level of an Annual Limit on Economic Migration to the UK
Date: 26th August 2010 Time: 11am – 1pm Venue: East Midlands Councils, Phoenix House, Nottingham Road, Melton Mowbray, LE13 0UL On 20 May 2010 the Coalition Government said “We will introduce an annual limit on the number of non-EU economic migrants admitted into the UK to live and work. We will consider jointly the mechanism for implementing the limit.” On 28 June the Government launched a consultation on how an annual limit for Tiers 1 (highly skilled migrants) and 2 (skilled migrants) of the Points Based System for migration from outside the EEA will work in practice, and the mechanism through which it ...
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Kurdish government bans deportation flights from UK
The Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq has banned the landing of flights deporting failed asylum seekers to its territory, amidst plans for sixty Iraqis to be deported in the next ...Health
Report writing for doctors
Report writing for doctors supplying evidence on asylum applications - training, 24 September, Coventry Refugee Centre GPs with asylum seeker patients are asked to write medical reports for asylum ...Countries
SA to resume deporting Zimbabweans
South Africa is to start expelling Zimbabweans again, from 31 December, the government has announced, ending their special status. The deportations were halted in April 2009 following an influx of those ...Media
Stoking paranoia about migration
The gap between the reality of the Office of National Statistics quarterly migration statistics and the knee-jerkery of much of the media (and not just the tabloids) is ...Resources
Refugees into Teaching – subcontract application process
There are currently 30 overseas-experienced 'refugee teachers' registered with the Refugees into Teaching project and living in and around the East Midlands. However, we believe that there are ...Sports
Leicester City sign Japanese international
Leicester City have pulled off a real coup by signing Japanese international Yuki Abe. That is the view of English journalists working in Japan who expected the 28-year-old international to ...Opinion
So what do you do for a living? Where do you work?
by Trish Elms It’s as common a question as remarking on the weather. And ultimately our work or professions is part of the way we define ourselves and how others characterise us. ...Events
Being Heard: Human Rights and Asylum Conference
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