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Immigration and Employment: Anatomy of a Media Story

Date: 31/08/2010 - 12:58

Employment statistics released last week in the United Kingdom have provided an immigration bonanza for the rightwing press. This short paper attempts to disentangle the statistics from the interpretation, and to explore how this story came to take the shape it has. By doing so, it aims to draw a few lessons for policy.

Migrant Workers' Rights in the Global Economy

Date: 25/08/2010 - 10:15
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From date: 02/09/2010 - 00:00
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London

This one-day seminar, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, is the second in the Middlesex University series examining emerging issues of global labour regulation. The seminar will be divided into two sessions. The first, thematic session, will examine alternative perspectives on migrant workers rights. The second session will present case studies from different world regions. 

Launch of the first edition of the new digital The New Londoners magazine

Date: 21/06/2010 - 15:03

The Migrants Resource Centre announces the launch of its first digital edition of The New Londoners magazine during Refugee Week.

Ros Lucas, Executive Director of MRC, reports “It gives me great pleasure to welcome readers to the first digital edition of The New Londoners magazine, which builds on the success of the paper version which was distributed annually from 2007 during Refugee week”.

You can read it at:

http://tinyurl.com/thenewlondoners

 

The Limits to Limits: Is a cap on immigration a viable policy for the UK?

Date: 09/04/2010 - 16:06

This IIPR briefing is an attempt to work through the implications of a cap on immigration to the UK.

December 18 is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.

Financial support for operational costs is provided by Oxfam-Novib (Netherlands). Other funders may occasionally support special activities.

December 18 is the International Resource Centre on the Human Rights of Migrants. Interested in becoming a volunteer, click here.