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Four looming problems in the UK asylum system and how to address them
Lots of asylum decisions are now being made. But what happens to the new refugees and those who are refused?
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Reforming the international refugee protection system
Keep the Refugee Convention but break the link between the place where the application is made and the place the refugee is protected
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Aliens: The Chequered History of Britain's Wartime Refugees by Paul Dowswell
An interesting read with inescapable parallels to the present day
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What might a radical centrist asylum policy look like?
Labour’s recent asylum announcements are starting to piece together a plausible programme for government
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We have lots of refugees but no refugee integration strategy. Which is bad.
We do everything we can to alienate and break refugees. And then eventually make them part of our society anyway.
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Tripling illegal worker penalties for employers to £45k per worker is a terrible idea
What is the purpose of the penalties and how will increasing them help fulfil that purpose?
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Re-evaluating family immigration policy: part 1
Should family migration be limited? And what family relationships should be recognised?
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Alienation not integration: the massive new immigration fee increases are very bad social policy
Charging workers and students a lot to enter is fine; charging them a lot once they are here is not. Charging families is always wrong.
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You wait ages for one bit of evidence of workforce and skills planning...
And then the NHS workforce plan AND a review of labour shortages in the food supply chain came along on the same day
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We wanted workers...
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