Migration News Sheet Summary April 2010

Issued on 12/04/2010

Summary

Every month the Migration Policy Group produces the Migration News Sheet, an information bulletin on immigration, refugees and ethnic minorities with updates on migration law and

policies, news on irregular migration, asylum, racism and discrimination at the EU and across countries in Europe.

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Below is a small selection of the articles available in the April 2010 issue.

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MNS Summary April 2010

Migration Policies/Law

EU: Libya ends visa confrontation with Schengen States but underlines that its quarrel with Switzerland is not yet over

ECJ: First ruling on family reunion directive obliges Dutch Government to take steps to revise Aliens Act

DENMARK: Points system for residence permit – baton and carrot approach

FINLAND: Supreme Court’s approval of the deportation of two grandmothers without close relatives in home country splits public opinion

GERMANY: No knowledge of German is a ground for refusal of family reunion

SWITZERLAND: Christian Democrats want to tighten Aliens Act to combat xenophobia

Irregular Migration

EU: Malta will not participate in future FRONTEX operations after failing to amend new rules

ITALY: Having children attending school does not protect an unlawfully residing parent from expulsion

SPAIN: Plans to limit right of irregular migrants to register with municipality of residence?

SPAIN: Hunt for irregular migrant has begun

SPAIN: No more clandestine departures by sea from Senegal to Canary Islands

Asylum/Refugees

ECJ: Qualification directive on asylum: Grand Chamber spells out conditions for implementation of the cessation clause

ECJ: Are Stateless Palestinians entitled to refugee status under the terms of the EU’s qualification Directive?

ECtHR: Six to one ruling against Sweden for wanting to repatriate an Iranian asylum-seeker – Swedish judge strongly expresses her disagreement

BELGIUM: Belgium’s “liberal” approach to asylum encouraged influx of “asylum-seeking” Serbs and Montenegrins

BELGIUM: Belgian State continues to pay out penalties to asylum-seekers without offers of accommodation

FRANCE-UK: New Anglo-French centre to co-ordinate efforts to prevent asylum-seekers from entering the UK

GREECE: Amnesty calls on other EU Member States to stop sending back Dublin cases to Greece in view of chronic lack of reception facilities

MALTA: Malta granted protection to 75% of asylum applications processed in 2009

SWEDEN: Influx of Serb asylum-seekers of Roma origin

Racism/Discrimination

ECtHR: Grand Chamber rules by nine votes to eight that Croatia discriminated against Roma Children

FRANCE: Most drug traffickers “are blacks and Arabs” says a journalist on television

ITALY: Apparently no interest in Klu Klux Klan in Italy

Other Issues

ECJ: Not contrary to EU law to withdraw Union citizenship from a person who acquired it by deception, even if s/he subsequently becomes Stateless

EUROPE: Anti-minaret campaign unites far-right in Europe

BELGIUM: Belgium to become first European country where the burqa is banned in public

FRANCE: French Prime Minister announces that a draft Bill aimed at banning the burqa will be introduced

FRANCE: Far-right Front national makes a spectacular comeback in regional elections

GERMANY: Almost half the number of serial offenders in Berlin are of Arab originG

NETHERLANDS: Police study on criminality among Moroccans paints a very worrying picture

SPAIN: Woman who claimed to have been condemned to death by an Islamic court fails to appear after three summons

TURKEY: Prime Minister urges Turkish immigrants abroad to take citizenship of host country but to resist political and social integration

UK: Two Muslim women who refused full-body scan are denied permission to board flight

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