Hundreds of migrants have been returned to Albania under a "gold-standard" deal with the country, says immigration minister Robert Jenrick. It compares with more than 12,000 Albanians who crossed the Channel on small boats last year, according to official figures....
Three key factors conditioning the process of differential integration of the migrants are their legal status, their access to network-based support, and the socio-economic and institutional settings encountered in each local context of immigration. Copyright 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.doi:10.1002/...
A co-ordinated operation involving West Yorkshire Police and the Immigration Service led to the jailing of five members of an Albanian drug gang last September after they set up clandestine cannabis cultivations at homes in the Bradford district and South Yorkshire, UK. Bradford Crown Court heard ...
Image:Ujeza Kurmekaj will serve seven-and-a-half years. Pic: National Crime Agency Kurmekaj pleaded guilty to charges of facilitating illegal immigration on 3 November at Oxford Crown Court. Once her jail term is up, she will be deported to Albania. Read more: Hunting down a ...
The drop in numbers notwithstanding, the Italian government iscontinuingto pursue an anti-immigration platform, which is widely supported by voters with Meloni enjoying a 44% approval rating, according to an Ipsos poll in September 2024. Meloni’s so-called “Rome Process,” which she says aims...
Increasingly elaborate and expensive solutions for housing migrants are not the answer. Instead, we must work to deter dangerous, costly and illegal immigration through proper and lasting reform. One major problem is the extraordinary length of time it takes for a decision on an asylum...
As it was being dealt with he was to Albania. But amid claims that he was suffering 'trauma and mental health issues', Dule was flown back to the UK - again at taxpayers' expense.He was then handed [pounds sterling]6,000 compensation from the Immigration Service because anyone appealing ...
We Trap the Immigration Cheats; Albanian Gang Recruits Citizenship Bureau Worker: Asylum Seekers Pay [Pounds Sterling]700 to Have Test RiggedByline: KEITH DOVKANTSFORMER home secretary Charles Clarke's Life In The UK tests were supposed to be the stepping stone to a more integrated, ...
Palgrave Macmillan UKPsimmenos, Iordanis, and Koula Kassimati. 2006. "Albanian and Polish Undocumented Workers' Life-stories: Migration Paths, Tactics and Identities in Greece." In Illegal Immigration in Europe: Beyond Control?, edited by Franck Duvell, 138-67. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan....
At the same time, being stuck immobile in queues for food and consumer goods — typical of shortage economies — has not been eradicated but transformed, for during the post-communist era long queues have been about getting visas at foreign embassies, or waiting to be checked by immigration ...