and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI)
present a
PUBLIC LECTURE
Controlling the rights of migrant workers and
asylum seekers -
The Dilemmas of Managed Migration
Professor Lydia Morris, Essex University
With a response by Hsiao-Hung Pai,
journalist and writer on Chinese migration in the UK
'Managed migration' is the
government's new 'big idea' for the future of
immigration policy. Designed to facilitate the admission of migrant
workers, but exclude asylum seekers, managed migration is presented as a
rational solution on the part of a government which values the
contribution to UK by prosperity by migrant workers.
In a new study of managed
migration policies in practice(1) Lydia Morris
has argued that it involves a complex set of regulations and practices
and a highly stratified hierarchy of immigration statuses. Within this
system, the rights of migrant workers themselves have a very low
standing.
This public event will provide
an opportunity to consider these issues
in more detail. There will be opportunities to ask questions and make
contributions from the floor.
(1) 'The control of rights
- the rights of workers and asylum seekers
under managed migration' IRP discussion paper,May 2004 - available from
JCWI
Tuesday 13 July 2004, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
At the Henry Thomas Lecture Theatre,
Institute for the Study of European Transformations (ISET)
London Metropolitan University, 166-220 Holloway Road London N7 8DB
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