Today's links
'How Osborne wanted to relax immigration rules to help the economy - and May blocked him.'
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-25/may-said-to-block-treasury-on-migrants-in-u-k-ministers-clash.html
Via https://twitter.com/migrants_rights and http://www.freemovement.org.uk/
Fascinating stuff - be very interesting to know how this story got out!
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'New backlog of 16,000 immigrants just a 'customer service' issue, says minister'.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9823039/New-backlog-of-16000-immigrants-just-a-customer-service-issue-says-minister.html
Erm, no.
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'UK Border Agency backlog of 16,000 migrants: 'lives are on hold’ - video'.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2013/jan/24/uk-border-agency-backlog-video
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https://twitter.com/nandosigona tweets :
'Reports on #bbcpanorama & #channel4 show how Kafkaesque is #UKimmigration. Easy to blame #UKBA but it's #HomeOffice policy to make it worst'
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https://twitter.com/AndyRussellShao tweets :
'Dylan and Devon are TV superstars! Watch and cry and share and nag, nag, nag your MP to help get these rules changed http://www.channel4.com/news/inspector-uncovers-huge-ukba-immigrant-backlog '
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https://twitter.com/Keith_VazMP tweets :
'Continued backlogs at UKBA a disgrace. Brilliant work by John Vine. Why are people not getting on with this and clearing this up? #ukba'
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https://twitter.com/migrants_rights tweets :
'New backlogs at the UK Border Agency. This time spousal visas, some cases almost a decade old!'
'Knowing the frustration by many ppl who have been caught out by this, and minister denying there's a problem. Outrageous!'
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'British stories of Nigerian Cinderellas are no fairy tale.'
'Slavery still exists in modern-day Britain. And how we treat victims is not pretty.'
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/british-stories-of-nigerian-cinderellas-are-no-fairy-tale-8465010.html
Via https://twitter.com/MigrantVoiceUK
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'Who will speak up for Europeans living in Britain?'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/24/europeans-living-in-britain-trampled
'I speak of people like me: Europeans who have chosen to make a life for themselves in the UK. Will we get a vote? Do we get a say in this issue, which affects our lives more directly than any other group in this country?'
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'Iran creates fake blogs in smear campaign against journalists in exile'.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/24/iran-fake-blog-smear-campaign-journalist-bbc
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Great oral history resource about waves of migration to East Midlands since WW2.
http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/community/migration.html
Via Migration Museum - https://twitter.com/migrationuk
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True story of Afghan child asylum-seeker wins Marsh award for translation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/2013/jan/23/marsh-award-translation-afghan-asylum-child?CMP=twt_gu
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https://twitter.com/UNHCRUK - thanks for RT of http://www.britcits.com blog!
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