A selection of recent media reports

Bates Wells hip hop lawyer wins Snoop Dogg immigration battle
Bates Wells & Braithwaite has paved the way for US rapper Snoop Dogg to enter the UK after a long-running battle wit...
The Lawyer.com (09-Mar-2010)
Social Care: Foreign and destitute
Around 20,000 asylum-seeking families are living in destitution in the UK. Nancy Rowntree asks whether the system needs ...
cypnow (09-Mar-2010)
Boarding Schools Association: 'still has concerns' over Tier 4 system
Despite a relatively smooth rollout of the new Tier 4 system for the immigration of international (non-EEA) students, th...
Politics.co.uk (09-Mar-2010)
Councils attacked for giving too much information on asylum-seeking children to UKBA
Local authorities have been accused of supplying more information on asylum-seeking children than they should to the UK ...
Community Care (09-Mar-2010)
Figures that reveal the cost of life for those with no hiding place
Asylum is protection given by a country to someone who is fleeing persecution in their own country. It is given under th...
Times Online (09-Mar-2010)
Asylum is a complex and emotive issue that will never satisfy everyone
If we can be sure of anything, it is that the mysterious and harrowing tale of the Russian family who jumped from a Glas...
Times Online (09-Mar-2010)
IMMIGRATION: NO PARTY CAN CONTROL IT SAY VOTERS
WESTMINSTER politicians from all main parties have failed to convince voters that they can control immigration, an exclu...
Daily Express (09-Mar-2010)
VOTERS' CONCERNS ON MIGRATION MUST NOT BE IGNORED
AS we inch closer to the general election the political parties are ever more vocal with policies, pledges and promises ...
Daily Express (09-Mar-2010)
Tottenham gypsy brothers face fraud charges
A FAMILY of Romany gypsies are facing allegations of fraud following accusations they cheated the benefits system. The ...
Haringey Independent (08-Mar-2010)
Illegal workers found at Great Yarmouth restaurants
Immigration officers from the UK Border Agency found seven illegal workers during a raid of two Chinese restaurants in t...
Evening news 24 (08-Mar-2010)
Alastair Stewart: 'If they lie, I will be the toughest policeman on the block'
The ITN newsreader will chair the first live TV debate between the party...
Guardian Unlimited - Media (08-Mar-2010)
Fake ID bride-to-be's 'special' day ruined when she was arrested going down the aisle
A pregnant would-be bride was arrested moments before her wedding for using a forged Nigerian passport under a false...
Northampton Chronicle and Echo (08-Mar-2010)
Female campaigner for gipsy rights 'ran £2.6m benefit scam for Romanians'
A campaigner for Roma gipsies' rights has been charged with helping scores of Romanians illegally claim millions in bene...
Daily Mail (08-Mar-2010)
Police inquire into identity of Glasgow flat deaths
Police are working to establish the identities of two men and a woman who died after falling from a high-rise block of f...
BBC News (08-Mar-2010)
MILLIONS MORE FOR MIGRANTS!
TAXPAYERS will be forced to fork out ­millions more in benefits for EU migrants because of changes in the law. At the m...
Daily Star (08-Mar-2010)
IMMIGRANTS PROFIT AGAIN
BRITAIN'S benefits bill will increase even more when new rules allow EU claimants from eastern europe to receive handout...
Daily Express (08-Mar-2010)
Fashion guru urges Tories to get 'selfish' on immigration
THE Conservative Party's latest high profile supporter has claimed that Britain needs to start being "more selfish" over...
The Scotsman (08-Mar-2010)
Death fall asylum trio 'faced order to leave UK'
THREE asylum seekers who fell to their deaths from the 15th floor of a Glasgow tower block were facing deportation, neig...
The Scotsman (08-Mar-2010)
NEVER FORGET THESE 13 DREADFUL YEARS OF LABOUR MISRULE
WITH the general election only weeks away the pressure on the Tories is becoming...
Daily Express (08-Mar-2010)
Red Meat Toryism? Part 2.
Commenting on this post, Tim Montgomerie writes: Did you actually read what I wrote Alex? Not once did I call for an end...
The Spectator (07-Mar-2010)

Links to other useful sites

www.balancedmigration.com
The first cross party group of parliamentarians to address how immigration into the UK can be brought back under control has been formed at Westminster.

Border & Immigration Agency (BIA).
To report allegations of breaches of the immigration law.

Center for Immigration Studies
Think tank devoted to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal and other impacts of immigration on the USA.

Council of Europe Demographic Developments

Council of Europe Publishing
List of demographic publications on minorities, etc.

Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration
European University Institute, Florence.
Analysing and forecasting migratory movements, causes and consequences that originate from, transit through, or are destined for the EU and Mediterranean partners (Barcelona Process).

Eurostat
European Data Shop

Home Office - Immigration and Nationality Department
www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/
www.homeoffice.gov.uk

House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs:
The Economic Impact of Immigration Report

Immigration Control Platform
The aim of Immigration Control Platform is to address the phenomenon of immigration to Ireland and to lobby Government for a tight immigration policy.

Immigration Watch Canada
Immigration Watch Canada.org is an organization of Canadians advocating a major reduction to Canada's current record-high immigration levels and major reform to Canada's immigration policies.

International Centre for Migration Policy Development,Vienna

International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva
Documents on international migration.

Intute
Intute is a free online service providing access to web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in their database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contained 123,410 records in May, 2008.

OECD
Annual reports on international migration. Labour Force and Economic statistics. Publications, disks.

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Official Documents
Other publications and press releases on immigration and asylum

Oxford Centre for Population Research

The Inter-Governmental Consultations for Asylum
Informal consultations

UN Development Programme

UN High Commission for Refugees
Data

Updated: 6 May 2008