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The NCADC blog is pleased to welcome three guest posts from Molly Haglund, who has just completed a Masters Degree in Human Rights Practice at the Universities of Roehampton, Gothenburg and Tromsø.  They are edited excerpts from her thesis entitled Punished for Persecution: An Analysis of the Criminalization of the Asylum Seeker in the United [...]

Blogging around the campaigns – NCADC volunteers explore some of the latest issue affecting migrant rights 8 March 2011 Milena Tmava, NCADC Campaigns Volunteer The European Agency for Fundamental Rights has today published a new report describing the situation at the EU’s external land border between Greece and Turkey as a fundamental rights emergency. People, [...]

From Migrants’ Rights Network and the TUC By bringing immigration enforcement into British workplaces, the Government has presented new challenges to trade unions in protecting the rights of workers. These challenges can only be met with proactive negotiation with employers to ensure that only necessary document checks are carried out, and that these are carried [...]

The UK Immigration Minister Phil Woolas has announced he is getting tough on poverty by deporting migrant workers. Speaking yesterday, Woolas said: “In Peterborough where there have been agricultural workers because of the benefit there, there has been a benefit from this immigration. But if you’re getting people sleeping rough, I’m not prepared to see [...]