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"Rape cannot be monetised": outsourcing and housing for asylum-seekers
London :: United Kingdom | 15 days ago
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outsourcing and housing for asylum-seekers G4S is not a social housing association, and yet they are responsible for housing many people for whom the state has a duty of care under international law. On Tuesday the Home Affairs Select Committee on
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UK immigration policy: more than an enforcement issue
Brussels :: Belgium | 29 days ago
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The enforcement culture that frames Home Office immigration policy has manifested itself in a defensive and largely negative approach to policy. Meanwhile public anxiety about immigration in the UK remains high. Positive, customer-focused services
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UK Border Agency insists that Sri Lankans pay to get maimed so they can claim asylum
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 1 month ago
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Maybe so, says the Border Agency, but you paid someone to do this to you. A surgeon with expertise in torture scars argues that 'self-torture by proxy' is a dangerous fiction. This is the back of a Tamil man, photographed in London soon after he
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Security industry provides medics for UK deportation flights
London :: United Kingdom | 1 month ago
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April 2013 The UK government entrusts security company rooted in the military with medical care of detainees on deportation flights. The UK Border Agency has contracted a controversial security company to provide emergency medical staff on mass
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Is there an alternative to locking up migrants in the UK?
Glasgow :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
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If detention is a tool of war on irregular migration, then the damage on both sides is severe...However, detention is far less successful at the complex business of actually m anaging migration. It is hardly a solution to immigration control, as
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Europe's forced returnees claim abuse
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 2 months ago
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Cases of excessive force being used to remove rejected asylum seekers have been documented in a number of European countries. But with the financial crisis eroding sympathy and tolerance for asylum seekers, there has been little public or political
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Former UK Border Agency chief Tony Smith says immigration was 'out of control'
London :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
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The newly-retired boss of Britain's Border Agency says that immigration to this country was out of control and that politicians have no idea 'who is here and who isn't'. Tony Smith, who retired from the UK Border Force last month, blamed the problem
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Yesterday the Mail revealed health tourism is costing the NHS 'billions'. Here our readers tell THEIR stories
Reading :: United Kingdom | 2 months ago
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I work in the NHS and one of my jobs is overseas patient billing. Many foreigners rack up debts going into tens of thousands of pounds that quite often get written off, severely impacting our cash flows and other patient care. Many also provide
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Keith Vaz warns against UK immigration `arms race`
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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One of Britain's most prominent Indian-origin MPs Keith Vaz has warned the government against an immigration "arms race" that would create tougher policies. The chairman of the influential House of Commons' Home Affairs Committee called on all major
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New bride ordered to leave UK after her husband is told he's not a British citizen... even though he was born in Wales and has a British identical twin
Chester :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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20 March 2013 A Welsh photographer could be forced out of the country after a Home Office blunder led to him being told he is not a British citizen. Craig Colville was born and bred in Wales with British parents and even an identical twin brother
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