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Race and space: the rise and fall of "net migration
8+ hour, 29+ min ago (606+ words) Making social science accessible The authoritative source for independent research on UK-EU relations Jonathan Portes asks how useful a measure immigration statistics are and argues that they have served to legitimate politics of racialised grievance." The BBC headline for last…...
Asylum support: discretion in practice
3+ week, 6+ day ago (253+ words) Making social science accessible The authoritative source for independent research on UK-EU relations Ali Ahmadi, Catherine Barnard and Fiona Costello argue that government plans to revoke the duty to provide support to destitute asylum seekers will probably not significantly reduce…...
Does the ban on asylum seekers working actually work?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (227+ words) Making social science accessible The authoritative source for independent research on UK-EU relations Ali Ahmadi, Catherine Barnard and Fiona Costello argue that while the UK's restrictions on employment for asylum seekers do not act as a strong deterrent, they do…...
The impact of Brexit on immigration to the UK
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (483+ words) Making social science accessible The authoritative source for independent research on UK-EU relations Jonathan Portes and John Springford share their new analysis that estimates how the number of foreign-born workers would have evolved had the UK remained in the EU....
Closing asylum hotels: What will the policy mean in practice?
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (106+ words) Making social science accessible The authoritative source for independent research on UK-EU relations Ali Ahmadi, Catherine Barnard and Fiona Costello look at the implications of the Labour governmen's promise to close all asylum hotels. By Ali Ahmadi, Research Associate, University…...
Why immigration policy is hard and how to make it better
4+ mon, 5+ hour ago (121+ words) Making social science accessible The authoritative source for independent research on UK-EU relations Alan Manning argues that the UK needs to move away from the current divisive debate on immigration that portrays immigration as either wholly good or wholly bad…...