The Home Office is to axe immigration removal targets - a day after Home Secretary Amber Rudd said they did not exist, the BBC understands. Ms Rudd told MPs investigating the Windrush scandal on Wednesday targets were not set for immigration officials.more
Sixty percent of voters want Sweden to take in fewer refugees than it currently does, according to an opinion poll.
Conversely, more people think immigration is an overall benefit to Sweden than those who think it is detrimental.more
The UK government said on Monday that emigrants to Britain decades ago who have been wrongly targeted over their immigration statuses will be eligible for free citizenship, as it tries to contain the continuing crisis.more
80% OF IRISH people feel that the integration of immigrants in the country is successful, according to a new survey - the highest proportion of positive responses across all EU member states.more
Poland's Catholic bishops have for the first time urged Poles living in Britain and other countries to join local Catholic communities, conceding they now lack enough priests and parishes to meet expatriate and migrant needs. more
The British organization Unseen has published a report summarizing the first year of operation of the Modern Slavery Helpline, a hotline on which suspicions of human trafficking can be reported. Poles are the second most frequently reported nationality, after Romanians.more
The British government apologized Monday for its "appalling" treatment of some immigrants from the Caribbean, as reports of law-abiding long-term residents being threatened with deportation overshadowed a meeting of leaders from the 53-nation Commonwealth.more
From the closed refugee center in Kallered near Gothenburg in the south of Sweden on the night from Thursday to Friday, 14 immigrants escaped, who were to be deported - said the Swedish Migrationsverket migration office.more
"All EU citizens can stay in the UK after leaving our country from the European Union" - said British Prime Minister Theresa May. "We want you to stay" - she added.more
Poles next to Romanians most often receive citizenship of another EU member state - Dziennik Gazeta Prawna reports today, citing data from Eurostat. more
Until September or October this year the establishment in Germany of up to five pilot centers, where all asylum procedures, are to be carried out - said the head of the Ministry of Interior, Horst Seehofer.more
The municipalities of Maasdriel, Zuidplas, Zaltbommel and Tiel want to reduce the number of Polish and Romanian migrant workers living in residential neighborhoods, in order to keep the areas livable for local residents, RTL Nieuws reports.more
Attitudes to immigrants coming into Ireland became more negative during the recession and are now lower than the Western European average, a new report has revealed. Low levels of support towards the arrival into the country of some ethnic groups are revealed in the study, compiled by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
more
When Katya Wetukowa arrived in Britain from Germany 15 years ago, she felt she belonged immediately. "The tolerance, the openness... It instantly felt like home," she says.more
Hate crimes against children have rocketed by 14% in a year and campaigners fear young people are being made to suffer in silence. Police forces logged 5,349 offences with a racial, religious or faith-based element where the alleged victim was under 18 in 2016/17.
more
On Saturday 24th March 2018 the Minister of State for Equality, Immigration and Integration at the Department of Justice and Equality, Mr. David Stanton T.D., opened the "Promoting Political Engagement of Migrants 2018" event at The Atrium in the Department of Justice and Equality's offices in St. Stephen's Green. more
Amidst all the talk about Brexit - about borders and about trade - ministers have said almost nothing about how immigration will be controlled after the UK leaves the EU. They have not yet come up with the answer to a fundamental question - who should we let in?more
According to the information provided by the Czech Statistical Office (CzSU), at the end of 2016, there were 493.4 thousands foreigners in the country.more
Although frequent bullying of students with an immigrant background is relatively low compared to in other countries, the impact is significant. The 18% of 15-year-old immigrant students in Ireland who are regularly bullied is nearly five percentage points more than the figure for native students.more
Almost 29 per cent of 15-year-olds in Britain now come from an immigrant background. The figure is higher than the EU average of 21 per cent but similar to both France, at 26 per cent, and Germany, at 28 per cent. The figure is higher in Ireland and Belgium.
more
