Immigration control

The Refugee Council and Oxfam submission to the Home Affairs Committee Inquiry into Immigration Control focuses on the impact of extra-territorial UK immigration controls on refugees and asylum seekers. The submission demonstrates that UK immigration controls are a blunt instrument that do not do not distinguish between those fleeing persecution and irregular migrants seeking to enter the UK for other purposes. The submission concludes by outlining the safeguards that are required if interception and immigration control activities are to be compatible with the fundamental human right to seek and enjoy asylum.

Published in December 2005

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Related links:

Foreign Territory: the internationalisation of EU asylum policy, published by Oxfam earlier this year:
http://publications.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam/display.asp?K=510000000690610&TAG=&CID=