Tag Archives: Forced return

120000 migrant children fall through the net: new report

An estimated 120,000 children living in the UK without legal immigration status are at risk of destitution, exploitation and social exclusion because of contradictory and frequently changing rules and regulations which jeopardise their access to healthcare, education, protection by the … Continue reading

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Asylum, development aid and conditionality

In recent communications on asylum and migration, the EU Commission has fully embraced the idea that ‘migration management’ and EU development policy should go hand in hand. Leaving aside the validity of the wide-spread assumption that successful development policies lead … Continue reading

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Mitrovica – the divided city

via www.forcedmigration.org A year or so ago I wrote an article on Mitrovica for an Italian magazine, if you read Italian, here is the link: http://nandosigona.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/una-citta-e-il-suo-doppio/

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A lost generation (2010): the forced ‘return’ of German-born Roma children to Kosovo

  A short documentary by Andrew Lampard features the case of two brothers, German-born Roma children, who are grappling with their new life in Kosovo after being deported from Germany. Thousands more like them are about to be deported to Europe’s … Continue reading

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