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BBC In Depth: Destination UK - Ongoing coverage of immigration and asylum issues including news, background and features. Audio and video clips, interactives, photos, statistics and graphs, quiz and links.
Guardian Special Report: Refugees - Full coverage of news, comment and analysis plus interactive guides, video report and backgrounders. Links to web resources including pressure groups, political groups, UK government sites, UN sites plus international news and sites.
BBC: Immigration Bond Scheme - BBC article on the scrapping of the Immigration Bond Scheme, a plan to make certain visitors pay a deposit of up to £3,000 to enter Britain.
BBC: Population growth - BBC article from late September 2001 on data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) about population growth by ethnic group.
BBC: "Immigrants could stem population fall" - Report on a study by the Migration Unit at Swansea University, which suggests "Britain's ethnic minorities provide us with an opportunity rather than a problem".
Scotsman Hot Topics: Immigration and refugees - News and commentary archives.
Guardian Society Big Issues: Asylum seekers - Ongoing coverage of news, analysis and commentary including policy and reform, the numbers, accommodation and integration, children, health issues and charities plus web resources.
Home Office: Immigration & Nationality Directorate - Official site offers news, advice, law and policy plus information for employers and tourists. Online applications for work permits, citizenship and asylum.
Moving Here - A database of digitised material on Caribbean, Jamaican, Barbadian, Irish, Jewish, South Asian, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan migration into England. Stories, photographs, documents and family histories.
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(Euripides) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous Immigration Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus Immigration blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Immigration Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown Immigration I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem Immigration "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Immigration All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller Immigration Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Immigration Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. 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