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The IPPR paper argues that under the Labour government the absence of clear objectives for immigration policy made effective policy-making very difficult. On the other hand the coalition government’s net migration target has somewhat successfully filled this space with a clear and easy to communicate objective, but one that IPPR thinks produces bad policies.
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>> Original article at december18.
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In celebration of International Migrant’s Day on Tuesday 18th December 2012, the Rural Media Company is making available on-line a suite of 18 short films called Migrant Stories produced with migrants in Herefordshire.
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>> Original article at december18.
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The news today that immigration backlogs are, in the opinion of the Home Affairs Select Committee, “spiralling out of control” will seem alarming to the large body of public opinion who had expected the coalition government to get some order into the management of migration.
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MRN – Migrants Rights Network
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>> Original article at december18.
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There are strict rules covering the conditions for chickens and eggs marketed in the happy hen category by high street names – a Freedom Food chicken must be grabbed by both legs rather than just one when being caught, for example. But the conditions of the humans sent to catch them has had less attention.
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>> Original article at december18.
In academia, most work on integration has focused on supposed conflicts of values between minority communities and western liberalism, and the difficulties that these conflicts create for social life in European countries. Many of these debates have moved from academia into policy discourse, stemming from such events as the French headscarf controversy and the security implications of radicalisation and extremism.
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>> Original article at december18.
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A comprehensive guide to migration aimed at housing providers and everyone concerned with housing needs and relationships between new migrants and longer-term residents in local areas. It shares the findings, knowledge and solutions identified by the Housing and Migration Network. It provides national context but its narrative and solutions are predominantly rooted in neighbourhoods.
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>> Original article at december18.
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MRN is concerned that the new rules will prevent many thousands of people from exercising their right to a family life in the UK. They will introduce additional hurdles and costs for people, particularly lower earners, who are either British or who are settled here and wish close family members to join them in the UK.
Research into experiences of forced labour/exploitation was conducted with migrant workers in the food industry across England and Scotland. A deeper understanding of the circumstances under which forced labour/exploitation occur and how it is organised is now available.
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Workers making Olympic sportswear for London 2012 for top brands and high street names including adidas and Next are being paid poverty wages, forced to work excessive overtime and threatened with instant dismissal if they complain about working conditions, according to a new report from the Play Fair 2012 campaign published today (Monday).
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>> Original article at december18.
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Despite experiencing large-scale immigration flows and settlement over the past half century, the United Kingdom has not developed a formal integration program. Few public policies have specifically sought to advance immigrant integration, and the political debates surrounding immigrant integration have often been fraught and destabilizing, reflecting deep-seated ambivalence in British society about immigrants and immigration.
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