Articles on Immigration policy
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Our experts review the evidence behind the Green Party’s big ticket policies.
The Greens offer a fresh outlook on immigration in the UK, but their manifesto contains shades of uncertainty.
UKIP’s immigration policies should have cleared away any ambiguity about what the party wants. Instead, they’ve added to it.
After another operation to rescue immigrants on a capsized boat, what do we need to know about the motives and methods for dealing with the problem?
Whoever wins the election, there are serious questions to answer on immigration.
Plaid Cymru’s immigration policies might be good for Wales, but don’t square with the rest of the UK.
UKIP leader thinks we don’t need equality laws anymore. He couldn’t be more wrong.
We should never accept that a Human Rights Commission ought to be non-partisan or depoliticised. Without both, it would be incapable of doing its job.
A points-based system won’t drive wages up, as Nigel Farage claims.
The prime minister’s claim that more people died during the Mare Nostrum search and rescue operation is disingenuous.
In the rush to reduce headline figures, ethics and common sense went out the window.
Until now, the policies of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) have been symbolic rather than substantive. Policy statements by the party’s leader, Nigel Farage, have been designed to build a populist support…
At the launch of Labour’s election campaign in Manchester, Ed Miliband accused the prime minister, David Cameron, of playing “risky and irresponsible games” with the EU. Exit, he argued, would be a “dramatic…
We know they are there, beyond our borders. The huddled masses; the wretched of the earth; the refugees. We would just prefer not to see them. And when events force us to look – when ghost ships float…
The British press has been accused of many things in recent years, most of them bad, but how can we measure performance in coverage of a particular subject such as immigration, and how is this changing…
December 18 2014 is International Migrants Day, marking 24 years since the UN General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of…
The United States has always been known as a nation of immigrants and a top destination for scientists and other highly skilled professionals. That ability to attract the world’s most educated and innovative…
Recently, it was reported that asylum seekers are “staying indoors”, fearful of breaching the Asylum Seeker Code of Behaviour. All unauthorised maritime arrivals (UMAs) who are granted bridging visas are…
Immigration is a political hot potato. On the day the OECD published its latest annual survey of global migration, Swiss voters rejected a referendum to reduce annual migration numbers. A few days earlier…
Before the 2010 General Election, David Cameron promised to reduce net migration to “tens of thousands” and not hundreds of thousands. This pledge is in ruins now that net migration has hit levels even…



















