Bulgaria, Romania, concerns about immigration and attitudes to EU membership
The debate over Bulgarian and Romanian migration shows that concerns about immigration are now inevitably intertwined with attitudes to EU membership.
Immigration
The principles of migration policy
Following this week’s IPPR paper on the subject, Jill Rutter looks at the principles of migration policy.
Miliband’s bold speech on integration
Ed Miliband’s speech on immigration and integration today talks about real policy issues, and is not just designed to play to the concerns of the tabloid media.
Immigration ‘pushes up house prices 10%’… More May migration myths?
Theresa May yesterday said house prices could be “10 per cent lower over a 20-year period” if net migration was cut to zero – claims which don’t quite add up.
Census sensationalism: Latest population data cues more media panic about immigration
Jill Rutter reports on the latest release of Census 2011 data – and the latest media panic about immigration.
Latest migration statistics show the UK Border Agency is still not fit for purpose
The latest migration statistics show the UK Border Agency is still not fit for purpose; where there are failings, the home secretary must be held to account.
The population scaremongerers are pedalling the same nonsense as 18th-century sceptics
Don Flynn, director of the Migrants’ Rights Network, rebuts the population myths being pedalled by anti-immigration MPs like Nicholas Soames and Frank Field.
BBC coverage pushes the government to focus on the horrors of FGM in the UK
Hopefully, the BBC’s reports will bring a very serious issue into the spotlight encouraging action.
Tories abolished Overseas Workers Visa that could have helped migrant slavery victims
Migrant rights abuses can quite easily go unnoticed behind closed doors and the government were wrong to scrap the visa that offered protection and support.
The battle on family migration will be a long one, but we can win
What is certain is the fight for family rights will continue and it has the scope to build political support, writes Ruth Grove-White, Migrants’ Rights Network.