Publications and Reports (Part Two)

The House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs has published: 'The Economic Impact of Immigration 1st Report of Session 2007-08'.
Download the report at:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldselect/ldeconaf/82/82.pdf (pdf file 1.2mb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations News – http://www.irr.org.uk).

Bail for Immigration Detainees has published a: 'Briefing paper on the detained fast track - March 2008'.
Download the briefing paper at:
http://www.biduk.org/pdf/Fast%20track/BID%20briefing%20paper%20on%20DFT.pdf (pdf file, 104kb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations News – http://www.irr.org.uk).

Bail for Immigration Detainees has published a bulletin for: 'Immigration detainees held in prisons - March 2008'.
Download the bulletin at:
http://www.biduk.org/pdf/bulletins/bulletin_25_%20immigration_detainees_in_%20prisons_25_03_08.pdf (pdf file, 96kb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations News – http://www.irr.org.uk).

Fit For Purpose Yet? The Independent Asylum Commission’s Interim Findings.
http://www.independentasylumcommission.org.uk/files/Fit%20for%20Purpose%20Yet.pdf

Report of the Independent Commission was published on 27 March. The report has concluded that Britain's treatment of asylum-seekers "falls seriously below the standards to be expected of a humane and civilised society".

The full report is available at the above web-link; there is a summary at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/asylum-review-executive-summary-801031.html; and follow-on stories (particularly the letter from a group of peers) is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/asylum-the-peers-revolt-801745.html
(Source: Welcome to Your Library - www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk).

One London? Change and cohesion in three London boroughs
http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=596

Paper by Rick Muir commissioned by the Government Office for London and published by ippr, which explores the nature of the contemporary challenges to community cohesion in London and sets out how local actors have responded to them. Covers experiences of Barking & Dagenham, Hounslow and Southwark.
(Source: Welcome to Your Library - www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk).

Local experiences of migration: consulting Coventry
http://www.icar.org.uk/

The Welcome Project, a partnership between Coventry City Council and Coventry Refugee Centre, commissioned ICAR (Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees) to conduct a consultation with local residents on community relations and integration issues, published in February 2008. The research explored attitudes and relations amongst and between the host population, asylum-seekers and refugees and other new migrants.
(Source: Welcome to Your Library - www.welcometoyourlibrary.org.uk).

A Warm Welcome? Public Services and Managing Migration in London: Scoping Research and Introductory Report, Michael Bell Associates, March 2008
http://tinyurl.com/2mxwrc

The report was commissioned by the London Asylum Seekers Consortium as a scoping exercise to explore the management of public services and migrants in London. It seeks to identify key issues and provide initial recommendations as to the way forward in managing public services in high-migrant areas.
(Source: Researching Asylum in London - http://www.researchasylum.org.uk/)

Internally Displaced Persons in Iraq - Update (IDP Working Group, March 2008) [text via Refworld] [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

The Rise and Fall of Asylum: What Happened and Why?, Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Paper, no. 577 (Australian National University, March 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Sharing Responsibility for Refugee Protection in Europe: Dublin Reconsidered (ECRE, March 2008) [access]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Stay Safe: The International Federation's Guide for Security Managers (IFRC, March 2008) [text via ReliefWeb]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Timor-Leste's Displacement Crisis, Asia Report, no. 148 (International Crisis Group, March 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Undocumented Migrants and Refugees in Malaysia: Raids, Detention and Discrimination (FIDH, March 2008) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog - http://fm-cab.blogspot.com/).

Returning Home - Children's perspectives on reintegration - A case study of
children abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Teso, eastern Uganda -
February 2008 http://www.child-soldiers.org/document/get?id=1299
(Source: Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers - www.child-soldiers.org).

The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees has published issue no.4 its paper 'Federation'.
Download the paper at:
http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf/IFIR_Federation_four.pdf (pdf file, 972kb)
(Source: Institute for Race Relations News – http://www.irr.org.uk).

ESOL
Refugee Council response to the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills consultation: Focusing English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) on Community Cohesion [April 2008]
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/policy/responses/2008/esol.htm
(Source: Refugee Council – http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk)

Conference report
The report on our joint conference with Age Concern, 'From Isolation to Integration,’ is now available online. The conference, held in January 2008, was the culmination of a two-year joint programme focussing on older refugees by Age Concern, the Refugee Council and the Association of Greater London Older Women (AGLOW).
This partnership programme heard directly from older refugees and asylum-seekers about their experiences, and looked at how to engage with policy-makers and service providers to identify practical solutions.
As well as the conference report, the presentations from the conference are also available to download.
http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/AgeConcern/older-refugee-conference.asp
(Source: Refugee Council – http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk)

Uprooted and Unstable: Meeting Urgent Humanitarian Needs in Iraq. A new report from Refugees International which is available online via their web site at: http://www.refugeesinternational.org/content/publication/detail/10570
(Source: Refugees International world:bridge blog - http://www.refugeesinternational.org/blog/2008/04/uprooted-in-iraq-on-nbc_15.html).

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