A selection of recent media reports

Man raped two girls in Glasgow flats
A man from Afghanistan has been found guilty of raping two young girls at flats in Glasgow.
BBC News UK (03-Feb-2012)
Ten jailed over sham marriage plot
Published on Thursday 2 February 2012 18:01 Ten people have been jailed for attempting to organise an international sha...
Ilkeston Advertiser (03-Feb-2012)
IMMIGRATION CLAMPDOWN
IMMIGRANTS will only be allowed into Britain if they can \u201Cmake the country better\u201D.
Daily Star (03-Feb-2012)
Immigration: dubious means to an uncertain end
The truth is that politicians worry about immigration more than the rest of the population do, not less
Guardian.co.uk (02-Feb-2012)
Immigration is not just a numbers game \u2013 it's about culture, too
The debate about what constitutes Britishness has barely begun.
Telegraph.co.uk (02-Feb-2012)
A traitor's tale
Leaving the Labour party is uniquely traumatic, as Luke Bozier has just discovered \u2013 and I know all too well
The Spectator (02-Feb-2012)
Immigration minister wants more scrutiny of 'value' of foreign students
Expanding the number of international students in the UK is not necessarily a good t
Times Higher Education (02-Feb-2012)
Select migrants 'helped by reforms'
High-earning migrants and promising student entrepreneurs will find it easier to work in Britain as the Government aims ...
The Oxford Times (02-Feb-2012)
Damian Green: 'we only want the brightest immigrants'
The Immigration Minister says the Government will meet its target of reducing net migration into the U
Telegraph.co.uk (02-Feb-2012)
Human rights decisions led to 'ridiculous and damaging' situation, warns minister
The way courts interpret the human right to family life has led to a "ridiculo
Telegraph.co.uk (02-Feb-2012)
Immigration minister Damian Green on who can come to UK
Britain does not need more "middle managers" or unskilled Labour and those coming in should be able to command a
BBC News - UK Politics (02-Feb-2012)
Conservatives put politics before policy on immigration
Damian Green's speech on immigration was thin, and contained nothing new.
New Statesman (02-Feb-2012)
Migrants must be 'the right people'
Immigration policies must ensure "the right people are coming here", the Immigration Minister said. Damian Green said i
Belfast Telegraph (02-Feb-2012)
Migrants must add to quality of life in Britain \u2013 minister
Migrants must "add to the quality of life in Britain" if they want to live here, the Immigration Ministe
Telegraph.co.uk (02-Feb-2012)
Tougher migration rules
Immigrants must prove they will "add to the quality of life in Britain" before they're allowed into Britain, the Governm...
ITV.com (02-Feb-2012)
Immigration focus turns to 'quality'
Helen Warrell By Helen Warrell Britain does not need more immigrants who will be "middle managers" but should inst
Financial Times Print Edition (UK) (02-Feb-2012)
Immigrants 'must benefit Britain'
Immigrants must "add to the quality of life in Britain" to be let in, the immigration minister is to say.
London Evening Standard (02-Feb-2012)
UK Border Agency admit 57 of its own staff have committed immigration offences
THE UK Border Agency has been forced to admit 57 of its staff have been guilty of immi
Mirror.co.uk (02-Feb-2012)
New immigration policy favours the wealthy, say critics
Immigration minister to signal more selective policy under which only the right kind of migrants are all
Guardian.co.uk (02-Feb-2012)
View list of current reports

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.

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

Gaia Watch of the UK
Human Population Growth and Migration have serious consequences, globally and for the United Kingdom.

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
Addresses immigration to the Republic of Ireland and lobbies its 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.

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Your chance to speak. Sign our petition to the Prime Minister at: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/19658

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

Optimum Population Trust
Towards environmentally sustainable populations.

Oxford Centre for Population Research
To promote research into the demographic problems that face developed countries of the world in the 21st century

The Inter-Governmental Consultations for Asylum
Informal consultations

UN Development Programme

UN High Commission for Refugees
Data

United Kingdom Border Agency
To report allegations of breaches of the immigration law.

Updated: 24 Nov 2011