Sainsbury supplier gangmaster abusing migrant workers

A gangmaster who supplied migrant workers to harvest leeks sold at Sainsbury’s has lost his licence after being found guilty of abuse.
Source: The Guardian, 17 April 08 and Gangmasters Licensing Authority
An investigation by the Gangmasters Licensing Authority found that about 50 Polish and Slovakian workers at ELS Recruitment Ltd, based in Peterborough, had been threatened, [...]

Migrant crime? Another myth bites the dust

A wide-ranging police study has concluded that the surge in immigrants from eastern Europe to Britain has not fuelled a rise in crime. The report, revealed first in the Guardian, found that, contrary to the alarmist headlines, the offending rates among Polish, Slovak, Lithuanian, Romanian and Bulgarian incomers are pretty much in line with the [...]

UK immigration – glossary of terms

Accession: The term used to describe the process by which a country joins the EU. In particular in reference to the 10 countries joining the EU on May 1st 2004: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Malta, Cyprus; and on January 1st 2007: Bulgaria and Romania.
Accession 8 (A8): Eight of the 10 [...]

Community InfoSource

Established in October 2005, Community InfoSource is a Community Interest Company (c.i.c) – a not-for-profit organisation, working with statutory and voluntary sector bodies to engage with and meet the needs of emerging communities. We work with people from refugee and migrant communities, and with other marginalised people, who face specific barriers to employment, wellbeing [...]

Was Powell right? Of course not

Darcus Howe, writing in the New Statesman, 17 April 08
When Powell delivered his speech, Europe was awash with revolutionary zeal. Thousands of young Europeans rose in revolt
Forty years ago, the Conservative MP Enoch Powell delivered a speech in Birmingham aimed at mobilising “the British working man” against those of us who had arrived on these [...]