Today
https://twitter.com/APPGMigration :
Make sure you watch the Westminster Hall Debate on Family Migration tomorrow, from 2.30.
http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=13325
https://twitter.com/crer_scotland :
MPs debate the impact of new family migration rules tomorrow (19/06) at 2.30. If this affects you, please email/tweet to let your MP know.
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G8: Cameron promises biggest bilateral deal in history as free trade talks open.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/g8-trade-deal-talks-launched
Will free trade mean transatlantic free movement? What a dream that would be!
Adam Smith on free movement of labour :
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/a-list/2006-May/024999.html
... But the policy of Europe, by not leaving things at perfect liberty, occasions other inequalities of much greater importance. It does this chiefly in the three following ways. First, by restraining the competition in some employments to a smaller number than would otherwise be disposed to enter into them; secondly, by increasing it in others beyond what it naturally would be; and, thirdly, by obstructing the free circulation of labour and stock, both from employment to employment and from place to place.
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UK government to back down on plans to make landlords police immigration.
http://www.workpermit.com/news/2013-06-14/uk-government-to-back-down-on-plans-to-make-landlords-police-immigration
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Immigration rules need to change.
http://www.nouse.co.uk/2013/06/18/immigration-rules-need-to-change/
British immigration laws have come under severe scrutiny after complaints of families being kept apart. As it stands, the British immigration law states that if a British worker wants to sponsor a non-EU visa, they have to earn £18,600 a year. This rises to £22,400 to sponsor a child, and an additional £2,400 for every child thereafter...
(Nouse, University of York student newspaper)
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UK visa rules breaking families apart: Report.
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-06-15/news/39993215_1_uk-visa-rules-family-migration-all-party-parliamentary-group
LONDON: UK's new stringent immigration policies are forcing many professionals, including those from India, to leave the country to take care of their ageing parents, British MPs have said in a new report.
Restrictions on family migration were introduced by Home Office ministers as part of the drive to reduce net migration to Britain.
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More global coverage :
http://immigrazioneoggi.it/daily_news/notizia.php?id=005421
http://www.bbc.co.uk/vietnamese/world/2013/06/130610_uk_visa_rules.shtml
http://www.londragazete.com/news/view/2165/Home_Office_aile_trajedilerine_yol_a%C3%A7%C4%B1yor
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A series of clay figurines have been created by artist Marcus Crocker to highlight the contribution refugees have made to British culture. Queen front-man Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara and fled Zanzibar with his parents in the 1960s during the island's revolution. The sculpture is outside the West End's Dominion Theatre where We Will Rock You has run for 11 years.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22876964
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