The government must stop spreading untruths about immigration
The Refugee Council’s Donna Covey responds to polling from Migration Observatory, arguing it shows the government needs to do more to correct misconceptions.
Immigration
May is wrong: We can have a liberal immigration policy
IPPR Associate Director Matt Cavanagh writes about the potential for a new liberal immigration policy, based on both progressive values and evidence.
Ex-Tory peer’s Pakistani/Bangladeshi smear ignores the evidence
Ex-Tory peer Baroness Flather’s assertion that Bangladeshi and Pakistani families have more children to chase benefits is baseless in evidence, reports Daniel Elton.
How to create a Telegraph migration scare story
IPPR Associate Director for UK Migration Policy, Matt Cavanagh, deconstructs the latest Daily Telegraph anti-migration scare story.
When will the coalition deliver on its pledge to end child detention?
Ministers have twice promised to end child detention and twice failed. When will they come good on thier promises?
Express and Mail fail the migration stats test
The ONS Quarterly Migration Report yesterday gave rise to media headlines about a big rise in immigration – even though immigration had hardly risen at all.
Express’s £1billion claim on immigrant housing is absurd
Migrationwatch has claimed that immigrant demand for social housing will cost £1billion per year – but the facts do not stack up.
Brits are among the most wary on immigration/Islam in Europe
Despite the onset of the financial crisis and rising unemployment the British remain deeply concerned about immigration, and Islam, more so than our European neighbours.
Pre-entry English tests are unfair, impractical and potentially discriminatory
A pre-entry test of people’s English language abilities is unfair, impractical, and potentially discriminatory, Ruth Grove-White of the Migrants’ Rights Network.
The bad news in yesterday’s employment stats (and it’s not about migration)
The claim that migrants are disproportionately accessing jobs in Britain compared to workers of UK nationality is based on a simple misreading of the statistics.