The Comment That Wasn’t Free
An articleattacking our paper on bogus students appeared in the Guardian on 9/01/11. The response below was offered to the paper but they declined to publish. Bogus foreign students, and indeed bogus colleges in Britain, are a serious problem – not withstanding the IPPR attempts to quibble with our description of some of the costs. Bogus colleges damage […]
The Impact of the Points Based System
Summary 1. This briefing paper looks at the effect of introducing the Points Based System (PBS) on immigration control. It finds that the PBS is an ineffective instrument for the task. The PBS gives primacy to “objective criteria” for the issue of a visa rather than immigration control objectives. Student numbers grew rapidly by 100,000 […]
New Wave of East European Workers Takes Lion’s Share of New Jobs and Puts Government Immigration Target at Risk | Migration Watch UK
Figures published today1 show that there were nearly 300,000 more people in employment in the UK in the third quarter of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009. However, nearly half of these jobs went to foreign nationals, including 98,000 extra workers from the new East European members of the EU. There were also an […]
MW217 : The Impact of the Points Based System | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. This briefing paper looks at the effect of introducing the Points Based System (PBS) on immigration control. It finds that the PBS is an ineffective instrument for the task. The PBS gives primacy to “objective criteria” for the issue of a visa rather than immigration control objectives. Student numbers grew rapidly by 100,000 […]
The comment that wasn’t free | Migration Watch UK
An article attacking our paper on bogus students appeared in the Guardian on 9/01/11. The response below was offered to the paper but they declined to publish. Bogus foreign students, and indeed bogus colleges in Britain, are a serious problem – not withstanding the IPPR attempts to quibble with our description of some of the costs. Bogus colleges damage […]
Migration – The Environmental Consequences for the UK | Migration Watch UK
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the UK will soar by almost 515 million tonnes over the period from 2008 to 2033 solely as a result of the projected increase in population due to net migration over that period, says a new report out today. The report from think-tank Migrationwatch on the environmental effects of large scale […]
Environmental impact of immigration
Summary The following are the main findings: Introduction 2. The two principal impacts that migration is likely to have on the environment are its contribution to GHG emissions, and therefore climate change, and to the ‘amenity’, ‘enjoyment’ or ‘benefit’, that is provided by aspects of the natural environment that are seen to be of value […]
MW211 : An overview of non-EU Students to the UK | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1 This document provides a briefing on foreign (non EU) students in the UK. It outlines the visa system, the number of students, the colleges involved, and the role of the UKBA. Student Visas 2 Previously the ‘Student’ visa was used to cover all study from short English language courses to undergraduate or postgraduate […]
MW213 : Homosexuals and Asylum – LGBT Guidance Notes | Migration Watch UK
1 The acronym LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender and the guidance notes to which this paper refers are prepared by the UK Border Agency for the benefit of caseworkers who have to consider and make decisions on asylum applications made by foreign nationals who claim asylum on the ground that they face […]
MW212 : Global Migration Unrealities | Migration Watch UK
In November 2010 the New Economics Foundation published a short paper entitled “Why the cap won’t fit: Global migration realities 2010 to 2050“. The paper argued that UK immigration policy should take account of world trends in migration. Immigration needed to be effectively managed against this background and government “rhetoric” should reflect the “real long […]