Overview of Dutch asylum and immigration system
Dutch methods of regulating migrationJeroen Doomernik, IMES About the authorDr Jeroen Doomernik is researcher and programme manager at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) and lecturer in political science at the University of Amsterdam. He holds an MA in social anthropology and a PhD in human geography. Introduction1. In contrast to the United […]
House of commons select committee on constitutional affairs
1 On 21 March Mr Justice Hodge (Sir Henry Hodge), President of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) and Mr Justice Collins (Sir Andrew Collins), lead judge in the Administrative Court and former President of the now defunct Immigration Appeal Tribunal, gave evidence before this committee. The evidence given by these same two judges aroused […]
Home Affairs Select Committee (HAC) Report on Immigration Control | Migration Watch UK
On the 24 July, 2006 HAC issued a detailed report on immigration control. The press notice which summarises the report’s findings is available at here. This was followed by the Home Secretary’s proposals for reforming the systems and processes for managing immigration to the UK. A summary of the proposed changes and the implementation timescale is […]
Asylum, Immigration and Nationality Act 2006
MigrationWatch Summary and comment This Act received Royal Assent on 30 March but is not yet in force. The Government has announced that it will start to bring the Act’s provisions into force in June 2006 with full implementation not expected until 2008. Although less voluminous than earlier Acts it nevertheless has 64 sections and […]
Massive public demand for annual immigration limit. | Migration Watch UK
The public have comprehensively rejected the Government’s ‘no limits’ immigration policy and instead have called for an annual limit on numbers. By 76% to 10% they strongly agreed (50%), or agreed (26%), there must be an annual limit to the number of immigrants allowed to come to Britain (only 4% strongly disagreeing), in a survey […]
Home office response to opinion poll. | Migration Watch UK
The Home Office have made three points in reply to the Migrationwatch opinion poll issued today (see poll) which showed that 76 % of the population back an annual limit on immigration. None of their points stands up to a moment’s examination: 1. That the survey reflects the views of a “small fraction of the UK population”. […]
Government ‘hiding’ immigration impact on housing growth | Migration Watch UK
The Government has been accused of deliberately hiding the impact of immigration on the country’s future housing needs. The recent Household Projection report (March 14) did not even mention immigration as being a factor in the requirement to build the 4.8m new houses which it said were needed in Britain between 2003 and 2026. But, […]
Why do we need nearly 5 million new homes?
Introduction 1. The government’s massive house building programme will affect every community in the country. It is therefore important to understand why (and whether) it is necessary. 2. Projections of households for England published by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) on 14 March 2006[1] estimate that 4.8 million new households will form between […]
New figures show true extent of immigration impact on housing demand. March 14, 2006 | Migration Watch UK
Attempts to play down the impact of immigration on UK housing have badly backfired following the publication today of household projection figures from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. The figures show that immigrants will need 1.5 million homes in the period from 2003 to 2026 – that’s 65,000 each year – or nearly […]
Household projections and immigration
Summary1. The Government’s policy of encouraging large scale immigration has been pursued without regard to its impact on housing. Data released by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) on 14th March 2006 show that immigration will account for nearly one in three new households. 2. The ODPM’s data shows that immigrants will need […]