Research

Migration Watch approaches our research output carefully and diligently; while we have a proven track record of getting it right on the issue, we know how sensitive the topic is and ensure we provide neutral, non-partisan and numbers-based analysis. On that basis, we source our numbers from officially published statistics reports, most usually the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the National Audit Office (NAO), the Home Office (HO), and other arms of His Majesty’s Government.

Where needed, we make projections guided by statistical inference and modelling guided by one of our co-founders, Dr David Coleman, Emeritus Professor of Demographics at the University of Oxford. We place the highest possible premium on numbers-based analysis, and ensure and encourage a calm and level-headed approach to the facts concerning this paramount issue.

Radical scheme change opens ‘Back Door to Britain’ Radical government changes to the hitherto successful ‘Working Holiday Makers scheme,’ are opening a new and completely uncontrolled ‘back door to Britain’. | Migration Watch UK

The old scheme has generally been a success. It permitted applicants, mainly (but not exclusively) from the old Commonwealth, to have some experience of Britain and to contribute to our economy. They were allowed to work in non-professional jobs provided it was “incidental to their holiday”. In practice, the limit

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August 25, 2003

Migration from ‘New European EU Members’ grossly understated, says report… | Migration Watch UK

Annual immigration to the UK from the new Eastern European membersof the EU could be as much as four times higher than the Government’s estimate claims a new report out today. See full report. The Government’s handling of immigration is described as ‘deeply worrying’. The Home Office estimate that between 5,000

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August 17, 2003

MW33 : The impact on immigration of the EU expansion to Eastern Europe | Migration Watch UK

Summary1. The Home Office estimate of between 5,000 and 13,000 immigrants per year from the new Eastern European members of the EU fails to take account of the new circumstances. It is even lower than the number (20,000) who attempted to enter Britain in 2001. All such estimates come down

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July 27, 2003

MW62 : Asylum Laws: A Way Forward | Migration Watch UK

Summary1. False asylum claimants are clogging up the system to the detriment of genuine refugees. The present legal framework is unable to deliver the only humane solution – the swift grant of asylum to those who deserve it and the rapid removal of those who do not. The 1951 Refugee

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July 25, 2003

Britain must regain control of Asylum Laws… | Migration Watch UK

The UK must escape from the tangle of international Conventions and return decision-making to Westminster if the current crisis in the asylum system is ever to be resolved. That is the view of think-tank, MigrationwatchUK, which has proposed that Britain cut loose from the international straitjacket and pass her own

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July 25, 2003

Asylum Day on the BBC | Migration Watch UK

The BBC will have a full day of TV programmes about asylum on Wednesday, 23 July. MigrationwatchUK’s Chairman, Sir Andrew Green, will be appearing on BBC1 at 10.35 pm (‘Face the Nation’ – a live debate on asylum) as one of a number of immigration and asylum experts. Harry Mitchell

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July 23, 2003