A selection of recent media reports

Court bans BNP from recruiting new members
The British National Party was today banned from recruiting new members after a court ruled its constitution was illegal...
The Independent (12-Mar-2010)
LABOUR IS ADDING INSULT TO INJURY FOR WORKING CLASSES
WITH nearly two million British citizens stuck on waiting lists for social housing nobody can deny that there is a despe...
Daily Express (12-Mar-2010)
REFUGEE ASSAULT CLAIMS 'NOT PROBED'
Asylum seekers who claimed they were assaulted by security staff hired by the Home Office did not have their complaints ...
Daily Star (12-Mar-2010)
£750M COST OF HOUSING ASYLUM SEEKERS...WHILE 1.8M BRITONS LANGUISH ON WAITING LISTS
MORE than £750million of tax­payers money has been spent on ­providing homes for asylum seekers over the past four years...
Daily Express (12-Mar-2010)
Public sector pension costs may reach £79bn a year
Pension payments to retired public servants could balloon by 200 per cent to £79bn a year in the next 50 years, accordin...
The Independent (12-Mar-2010)
URGENT 'REVIEWS' AT OLD PEOPLE'S HOME
Southwark Council has instructed social workers to make urgent reviews of people it has placed at the old folks' home wh...
Southwark News (11-Mar-2010)
Leicestershire police hunt for lorry stowaways
Organised criminal gangs which force illegal migrants to work in poor conditions for a few pounds a day could be operati...
This is Leicestershire (11-Mar-2010)
America nears 'tipping point' where babies born to minority parents outnumber whites for first time
America is reaching a tipping point when the babies born to minority parents outnumber whites for the first time. More ...
Daily Mail (11-Mar-2010)
Frosty Welcome For UK Electronic Borders Plan
Government claims over the roll-out of its new electronic border controls are 'not credible', according to opposition pa...
97.4rockfm (11-Mar-2010)
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT LANDED A JOB IN LORDS
AN illegal immigrant worked in the Houses of Parliament for six months without any security checks, a court was told...
Daily Express (11-Mar-2010)
Gold Service traffickers exposed by The Sun
TODAY The Sun exposes a gang that offers illegal immigrants door-to-door delivery into Britain in a scam which they call...
Online Sun (10-Mar-2010)
Illegal immigrant worked at House of Lords for six months after using fake passport to get kitchen job
An illegal immigrant worked for six months serving lunch at House of Lords after using a fake passport to get the job, a...
Daily Mail (10-Mar-2010)
Fewer asylum seekers to Norway
In February this year 711 asylum seekers arrived in Norway.
The Norway Post (10-Mar-2010)
Brown meets MP over flats deaths
Prime Minister Gordon Brown will meet an MP to hear how a community coped following the apparent suicide of three asylum...
Press Association (10-Mar-2010)
WILLIAM HAGUE: LABOUR HAVE BLED US DRY
THE Shadow Foreign Secretary speaks to Daily Express readers about Gordon Brown s appalling regime and how the Tories pl...
Daily Express (10-Mar-2010)
Lumley named in row over Gurkha charity
Minister attacks campaigner's 'silence' as inquiry is launched into donations solicited in...
The Independent (10-Mar-2010)
Team in war on night crime
WAR has been declared on Newham's night-time crime economy. Police, the council and immigration oficers are working tog...
Newham Recorder (09-Mar-2010)
Homes help for asylum seekers
AN Oldham vicar is helping to lead a campaign to improve housing conditions for asylum seekers in the North-West. Rever...
Oldham Evening Chronicle (09-Mar-2010)
The battle for a Yorkshire marginal
As the Conservative candidate in a marginal seat, I see that while BNP support is a threat, the Labour vote has...
Guardian Unlimited - Comment is Free (09-Mar-2010)
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)
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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