A selection of recent media reports

VICAR IN MAJOR SHAM MARRIAGES SCAM
A vicar has been found guilty of conducting sham marriages to allow illegal immigrants to stay in...
Daily Star (29-Jul-2010)
Vicar guilty of 360 sham marriages
A vicar has been found guilty of conducting hundreds of sham marriages to help illegal immigrants gain residency in...
Yahoo! News UK & Ireland (29-Jul-2010)
Britain to be biggest country in Europe by 2050
Britain will be the biggest country in Europe by 2050, overtaking both France and Germany, according to official...
Telegraph.co.uk (29-Jul-2010)
Vicar guilty of conducting 360 sham marriages for illegal African immigrants | Mail Online
A vicar was found guilty today of conducting hundreds of sham marriages to help illegal immigrants gain residency in...
The Mail On Sunday (29-Jul-2010)
Sham marriages on 'unprecedented scale'
The scale of the sham marriages was on an unprecedented scale involving "classic exploitation" of foreign nationals...
The Independent (29-Jul-2010)
Sarkozy accused of racism for ordering closure of illegal gypsy camps after riot | Mail Online
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been accused of racism after ordering authorities to dismantle 300 gypsy camps and...
The Mail On Sunday (29-Jul-2010)
Cameron: Immigration cap won't affect Indian trade
As David Cameron meets Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on the final day of his trip, he tells Channel ...
Channel 4 News (29-Jul-2010)
Two arrested in restaurant raid
IMMIGRATION officers raided an Indian restaurant in Sheffield and arrested two workers on suspicion of being...
Sheffield Telegraph (29-Jul-2010)
Vince Cable's call for immigration cap relaxation is a violation of voters' wishes | Mail Online
The truth is so astonishing that its full implications are hard to comprehend: last year, nearly a third of the...
The Mail On Sunday (29-Jul-2010)
Asylum target to be scrapped
An asylum target to deal with most cases within six months is to be scrapped, The Daily Telegraph can...
Telegraph.co.uk (29-Jul-2010)
Cameron demands migrant cap despite facing mutiny on policy
Tensions over immigration remained high within the Coalition Government last night after David Cameron publicly...
Mail Online (29-Jul-2010)
Immigration? Given a choice between a skilled Indian and an unskilled Bulgarian, I know who I'd prefer
As Lib Dem Shadow Chancellor, cuddly Vince Cable was the nation's best-loved politician. In government, he looks testy a...
Mail Online (29-Jul-2010)
Campaign highlights desperate need to Make the Banks Lend
His voice charged with anger, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King delivers an attack on remote and ruthless bankers whi...
Mail Online (29-Jul-2010)
David Prosser: The mixed messages Cameron is sending to India
Outlook Does David Cameron get the contradiction undermining his trade mission to India? It's quite understandable that....
The Independent (29-Jul-2010)
Adrian Hamilton: Back to the past with foreign policy
First, credit where credit is due. David Cameron may be overdoing things a bit in his drive for trade opportunities in.....
The Independent (29-Jul-2010)
Nearly 100,000 new homes must be built every year for immigrants
Nearly 100,000 new homes must be built every year just to provide housing for immigrants, ministers disclosed yesterday.
Mail Online (28-Jul-2010)
France to dismantle Roma camps, expel offenders
President Nicholas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered the dismantling of 300 illegal camps of travellers and Roma across Franc...
Yahoo! News UK & Ireland (28-Jul-2010)
Why are Messrs Clegg, Cable and Huhne all allowed to undermine the policies of the Government?
It is not that often that one gets a really good laugh out of the BBCs Today Programme, but to hear Jack Straw explainin...
Telegraph Blogs (28-Jul-2010)
Up to 45,000 failed asylum seekers given right to work in Britain
Tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers have been granted the right to work in the UK in a landmark court ruling.
Mail Online (28-Jul-2010)
UK English Language test for spouses and partners to be introduced
If you wish to join or marry your British citizen spouse or a permanent resident in the UK you will from 29 November 201...
UK Immigration (28-Jul-2010)

Links to other useful sites

www.balancedmigration.com
The first cross party group of parliamentarians to address how immigration into the UK can be brought back under control has been formed at Westminster.

Border & Immigration Agency (BIA).
To report allegations of breaches of the immigration law.

Center for Immigration Studies
Think tank devoted to research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal and other impacts of immigration on the USA.

Council of Europe Demographic Developments

Council of Europe Publishing
List of demographic publications on minorities, etc.

Euro-Mediterranean Consortium for Applied Research on International Migration
European University Institute, Florence.
Analysing and forecasting migratory movements, causes and consequences that originate from, transit through, or are destined for the EU and Mediterranean partners (Barcelona Process).

Eurostat
European Data Shop

Home Office - Immigration and Nationality Department
www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/
www.homeoffice.gov.uk

House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs:
The Economic Impact of Immigration Report

Immigration Control Platform
The aim of Immigration Control Platform is to address the phenomenon of immigration to Ireland and to lobby Government for a tight immigration policy.

Immigration Watch Canada
Immigration Watch Canada.org is an organization of Canadians advocating a major reduction to Canada's current record-high immigration levels and major reform to Canada's immigration policies.

International Centre for Migration Policy Development,Vienna

International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva
Documents on international migration.

Intute
Intute is a free online service providing access to web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in their database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contained 123,410 records in May, 2008.

OECD
Annual reports on international migration. Labour Force and Economic statistics. Publications, disks.

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Official Documents
Other publications and press releases on immigration and asylum

Oxford Centre for Population Research

The Inter-Governmental Consultations for Asylum
Informal consultations

UN Development Programme

UN High Commission for Refugees
Data

Updated: 6 May 2008