New Reports and Publications

The Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities (NICEM) has published a report: ‘BAYANIHAN! The Filipino Community In Northern Ireland’.
Download the report at:
http://www.nicem.org.uk/uploads/publications/Bayanihan!_January_2012.pdf (pdf file, 1.3mb)

Asylum Aid has published a report: ‘”I feel like as a woman I’m not welcome”: A gender analysis of UK asylum law, policy and practice’.
Download the report at:
http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/data/files/ifeelasawoman_reportv2.pdf (pdf file, 2.8mb)
Or download the executive summary at:
http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/data/files/ifeelasawoman_exec_sum_web.pdf (pdf file, 1.3mb)

Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA) has published issue 12 of its newsletter.
View and download at:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0Bxj7944-uHp6NjYwMDcwYmQtNGNjMC00YzJhLWFiNTUtM2ZmZWUwNTJhMjZj (pdf file, 928kb)

The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee has published a report: ‘Rules governing enforced removals from the UK’.
Download the report at:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmhaff/563/563.pdf (pdf file, 1.1mb)

The Home Office has published statistics on: ‘Children entering detention held solely under Immigration Act powers December 2011′.
Download the statistics at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-statistics/research-statistics/immigration-asylum-research/child-detention-dec2011?view=Standard&pubID=976700

Country of Origin information reports

The Country of Origin Information Service (COI Service) provides accurate, objective, up-to-date, sourced information on asylum seekers’ countries of origin. This information mainly focuses on human rights issues.

The information is for UK Border Agency officials involved in the asylum determination process.

Specialist country officers in the COI Service research, compile and produce country of origin information (COI). They monitor the position in their countries daily and have access to all the most up-to-date COI sources.

All COI products focus on human rights issues and matters frequently raised in asylum and human rights claims. We compile them from reliable material produced by external information sources such as:

• the US State Department
• the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• human rights organisations
• news media

The public can access all COI products. They are based on published or unclassified source material. Hyperlinks are provided within the COI products to most of the original source documents referred to. COI Service products do not contain any UKBA opinion or policy.

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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 cases, and are often well placed through their knowledge of their patient to provide evidence and information. However, writing full, “expert” medico-legal reports requires training and experience. A network of GPs writing medico-legal reports on asylum applicants was set up in 2008 to provide training and support for GPs. Ongoing training and accreditation in medical report writing should strengthen the role of GPs and the effectiveness of their reports at the Home Office.

Sponsored by the Department of Health, the 4th GP Medical Report Training Day will provide both new and experienced GP report writers with presentations from legal and medical experts, and with a forum for GPs to present their own reports. UKBA staff will explain the role and importance of medical reports in decision-making. Expert legal advisors will present on legal aspects, and medical presenters on recognising and documenting the physical and psychological evidence of trauma/torture. There will be a session on how to structure and present expert reports.

Attendance is free. Certificates of attendance will be provided.

Anyone interested in attending should send their name and contact details to Dr Alison Callaway to book a place:

Dr Alison Callaway (Lead GP)

The Meridian, 15 Bishop Street, Coventry CV1 1HU T: 02476-223921 F: 02476-223923

New Reports and Publications

Asylum Aid has published a report on its: ‘Charter of Rights of Women Seeking Asylum 2 years on: impacts and actions’
Download the report at:
http://www.asylumaid.org.uk/data/files/publications/133/WomensAsylumCharter2Yearson.pdf (pdf file, 708kb)

Maternity Action, which works to end inequality and promote the health and well-being of all pregnant women, their partners and children from before conception, has published a range of information sheets for ‘Parents from abroad’ (on subjects including: Parents who are migrants; Parents who have claimed asylum; Entitlement to free NHS maternity care for women from abroad.)
Download the information sheets at:
http://www.maternityaction.org.uk/yourrights.html

The Migrants’ Rights Network has published a report: ‘Migrant capital: a perspective on contemporary migration in London’.
Download the report at:
http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/files/publications/MRN_Migrant_Capital_June_2010.pdf (pdf file, 2.1mb)

INQUEST, which assists the families of those that have died in custody, has published issue no.9 of its e-newsletter.
Download the July 2010 e-newsletter at:
http://inquest.gn.apc.org/pdf/enewsletter/INQUEST_enewsletter_no9_july_2010.pdf (pdf file, 212kb)

Human Rights Watch has published a report: ‘”No Questions Asked”: Intelligence Cooperation with Countries that Torture.’
Download the report at:
http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/ct0610webwcover.pdf (pdf file, 400kb)

The Howard League for Penal Reform has published a report: Life inside 2010: A unique insight into the day to day experiences of 15-17 year old males in prison’.
Order the report at:
http://www.howardleague.org/publications-youngpeople/

Research Development Statistics at the Home Office has published a research report: ‘The Voluntary Assisted Return and Reintegration Programme (VARRP) 2008: a process and impact assessment’.
Download the report at:
http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs10/horr41c.pdf (pdf file, 324kb)

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has published a: ‘Report on an unannounced follow-up inspection of the residential short-term holding facility at: Pennine House, 2-3 March 2010′.
Download the report at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/inspectorates/hmi-prisons/docs/Pennine_House_STHF_2010_rps_.pdf (pdf file, 96kb)

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has published a: ‘Report on the unannounced inspection of the non-residential short-term holding facility at: Manchester Airport, 2-3 March 2010′.
Download the report at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/inspectorates/hmi-prisons/docs/Manchester_Airport_STHF_2010_rps_.pdf (pdf file, 72kb)

HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has published a: ‘Report on an unannounced full follow-up inspection of the non-residential short- term holding facility at: Edinburgh Airport, 12 April 2010′.
Download the report at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/inspectorates/hmi-prisons/docs/Edinburgh_Airport_STHF_2010_rps_.pdf (pdf file, 64kb)

The National Policing Improvement Agency has published guidance on behalf of the Association of Chief Police Officers and in consultation with the Department of Health on: ‘Responding to people with mental health or learning disabilities’.
Download the guidance at:
http://www.npia.police.uk/en/docs/Mental_ill_Health.pdf (pdf file, 872kb)

The Ministry of Justice has published: ‘Equality Impact Assessments 2010′.
Download the guidance at:
http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/docs/equality-impact-assessments-2010a.pdf (pdf file, 104kb)

LEGAL JUDGMENT
The Supreme Court has published its judgment in to the cases of: ‘HJ (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department and HT (Cameroon) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (Respondent)’.
Download the judgment at:
http://www.supremecourt.gov.uk/docs/UKSC_2009_0054_Judgment.pdf (pdf file 200kb)

CONSULTATION

The Migration Advisory Committee is conducting a consultation on the level of an annual limit on economic migration to the UK. (The consultation will run until 7 September 2010.)
View the consultation documents at:
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/documents/aboutus/workingwithus/mac/mac-consultation-annual-limit/

Latest Research, Reports and Publications

New Reports and Publications

• Control of Immigration: Quarterly Statistical Summary United Kingdom January – March 2010. This edition 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
• Country of Origin Information Reports in the last two months on Afghanistan, Somalia and Vietnam and ‘key documents’ on countries producing fewer asylum applications.

New Publications and Reports

Caring for Trafficked Persons: Guidance for Health Providers (IOM, GIFT & LSHTM, 2009) [text]

Case Management as an Alternative to Immigration Detention: The Australian Experience (International Detention Coalition, June 2009) [text]

Human Impact Report: Climate Change – The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis (Global Humanitarian Forum, May 2009) [access]

“I hate being idle”: Wasted Skills and Enforced Dependence among Zimbabwean Asylum Seekers in the UK (Refugee Council, July 2009) [access]

“Returning home: forced conscription, reintegration, and mental health status of former abductees of the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda,” BMC Psychiatry, 9:23 (May 2009) [open access text]

Still Destitute: A Worsening Problem for Refused Asylum Seekers (Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, 2009) [access]

New Reports and Publications

Source: Institute of Race Relations

UNISON has published its June 2009 edition of its Migrant Workers newsletter.
You can sign up to receive the newsletter at:
http://www.unison.org.uk/news/mailinglist.asp#lgbt

The Migrants Rights Network has published its June 2009 newsletter.
Download the newsletter at:
http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/downloads/newsletters/MRN_Newsletter_Jun09.pdf (pdf file, 244kb)

The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has published: ‘Management of Asylum Applications’.
Download the report at:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmselect/cmpubacc/325/325.pdf (pdf file, 1.7mb)

The House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution has published a report on an: ‘Analysis of the Government’s response to Surveillance: Citizens and the State’.
Download the report at:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldselect/ldconst/114/114.pdf (pdf file, 96kb)

The Department of Health has published a: ‘Report on the self reported experience of
patients from black and minority ethnic groups’.
Download the report and related documents at:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsStatistics/DH_100467

The Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism at the Home Office has published: ‘Report on the Operation in 2008 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and of part 1 of the Terrorism Act 2006 by Lord Carlile’.
Download the documents at:
http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-publications/publication-search/general/Lord-Carlile-report-2009/

The Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism at the Home Office has published: ‘David Hanson’s quarterly statement to Parliament on the exercise of the control order powers’.
Download the document at:
http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/news-publications/publication-search/control-order-statements/control-order-quarterly1006.pdf?view=Binary (pdf file, 88kb)

New Reports and Publications

Medical Justice has published a new bulletin.
You can receive the bulletin by emailing: [email protected]

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The Refugee Women’s Resource Project (RWRP) at Asylum Aid has published issue no.83 of ‘Women’s Asylum News’.
Download the issue at:
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf2/RWRP_Issue_83.pdf (pdf file, 144kb)

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The Research and Information Unit at the Immigration Advisory Service has published: ‘The Use of Country of Origin Information in Refugee Status Determination: Critical Perspectives”,
Download the report at:
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf2/Use_of_COI_May 2009.pdf (pdf file 1,2mb)

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The Information Centre on Asylum and Refugees (ICAR) at City University has published the May edition of its newsletter.
Download the newsletter at at:
http://www.icar.org.uk/download.php?id=543 (pdf file, 268kb)

New Online Reports and Research Publications

Please find below a list of updated and new publications on refugee studies and related topics. These have been accumulated from a range of online sources and links to the relevant full-text document are given where appropriate. This list will be made available on a regular basis via our Refugee Studies blog (http://refugee-archives.blogspot.com)

Title: UNHCR Country Briefing Folder on Sudan.

Authors: UNHCR.
Publication Date: May 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4a02cf3d2.html
Source: UNHCR RefWorld – www.refworld.org (Web).

Title: Diasporas: Doing Development or Part of Development – A Study of Two Sierra Leonean Diaspora Organisations in London.

Authors: ODI
Publication Date: April 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/details.asp?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20090505&id=3255&title=diasporas-development-study-sierra-leone-organisations-london
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

Title: Masses in Flight: The Crisis of Internal Displacement in Sri Lanka.

Authors: Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
Publication Date: 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.humansecuritygateway.com/showRecord.php?RecordId=29207
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

Title: A-Z of No Borders.

Authors: The No Borders Network.
Publication Date: 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://wiki.noborders.org.uk/workspace/A-_Z_workspace
Source: Institute of Race Relations – http://www.irr.org.uk/ (Web).

Title: Report on the unannounced inspection of the non-residential short-term holding facility at: London City Airport.

Authors: HM Chief Inspector of Prisons.
Publication Date: 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/inspect_reports/STHF-reports/London_City_Airport_STHF.pdf?view=Binary
Source: Institute of Race Relations – http://www.irr.org.uk/ (Web).

Title: Access to Justice: a review of existing evidence of the experiences of minority groups based on ethnicity, identity and sexuality.

Authors: Great Britain: Ministry of Justice.
Publication Date: 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/docs/access-justice-minority-groups.pdf
Source: Institute of Race Relations – http://www.irr.org.uk/ (Web).

Title: Detainees under escort at Dungavel House IRC carried out between 30^th02^nd October 2008. September and

Authors: HM Inspectorate of Prisons.
Publication Date: 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/hmiprisons/inspect_reports/escort-inspections/Dungavel_escort_report1.pdf
Source: HM Inspectorate of Prisons – http://inspectorates.homeoffice.gov.uk/ (Web).

Title: UNHCR Statement on Article 1D of the 1951 Convention

Authors: UNHCR.
Publication Date: May 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4a0d7c142.html
Source: UNHCR Refworld– http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/refworld/rwmain (Web).

Title: Internally Displaced Peoples in Europe Still Marginalised.

Authors: IDMC.
Publication Date: 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.internal-displacement.org/8025708F004BE3B1/(httpInfoFiles)/67E98BFB4EDD0472C12575B600408751/$file/europe_protracted_may09.pdf
Source: IDMC – http://www.internal-displacement.org/ (Web).

Additional Info: View the full press release ; View the summary and recommendations

Title: Cost of Coercian.

Authors: ILO.
Publication Date: 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.ilo.org/global/What_we_do/Officialmeetings/ilc/ILCSessions/98thSession/ReportssubmittedtotheConference/lang–en/docName–WCMS_106230/index.htm
Source: ILO – http://www.ilo.org/ (Web).

Title: Statistics on terrorism arrests and outcomes Great Britain 11 September 2001 to 31 March 2008.

Authors: Great Britain : Home Office : Research, Development and Statistics Directorate.
Publication Date: 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/whatsnew1.html
Source: Home Office RDS – http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/ (Web).

Additional Info: Home Office Statistical Bulletin 04/09.

Title: Social Networks and Polish Immigration to the UK

Authors: By Madeleine Sumption
Publication Date: 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=662
Source: IPPR – http://www.ippr.org/ (Web).

Title: The Second Destitution Tally: an indication of the extent and causes of asylum seekers, people at the end of the asylum process and refugees in the UK.

Authors: Asylum Support Partnership.
Publication Date: May 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/policy/responses/2009/destitution.htm
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

Additional Info: From The Refugee Council website: “This report reveals the extent and causes of destitution for people seeking asylum and refugees across the UK, and proposes solutions for implementation by policy makers and administrators of the asylum system. It is a repeat of the first Destitution Tally conducted by the Asylum Support Partnership in 2007 and published in January 2008 which demonstrated the extent of destitution among asylum seekers and refugees accessing their One Stop Services across the UK. In October 2008 the Partnership agencies repeated the survey to demonstrate the persistence of destitution as a feature of the lives of asylum seekers and refugees and their independent advice services, and to understand further its extent and causes.Between the 1^st and 31^st of October 2008, case workers from the 5 refugee agencies which comprise the Partnership completed a short survey for each client contact episode, recording the proportion of the people who were destitute. The survey results were collated and are presented in this report alongside existing research recommendations. It recommends a range of policy and operational solutions to end destitution as a feature of the UK asylum system.”

Title: The 2008 Humanitarian Accountability Report.

Authors: Humanitarian Accountability Partnership.
Publication Date: May 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.hapinternational.org/pool/files/2008-humanitarian-accountability-report.pdf
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

Title: Asylum in the EU in 2008: Around 20 000 asylum applicants registered each month in EU27.

Authors: Eurostat.
Publication Date: May 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/3-08052009-AP/EN/3-08052009-AP-EN.PDF
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

Title: Which Diaspora for Whose Development?

Authors: DIIS.
Publication Date: May 2009.
Publication URL Address: http://www.diis.dk/sw77847.asp?guid=Wed%2C06May200908%3A51%3A30%2B0100
Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog – http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/ (Web).

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