News: Refugees, asylum seekers & migrants

28.05.2004 The body of an Iraqi would-be asylum seeker who died trying to enter Britain in 2001 has been left in a mortuary for almost three years because there are no funds to pay for its return.

21.05.2004 Ministers have failed to grasp the urgency or scale of illegal gangmaster operations, MPs say in a damning report published by the environment, food and rural affairs select committee on 20 May.

18.05.2004 Refugees who want to become self-employed and set up their own businesses are to be given encouragement according to a seminar held recently by Employability Forum. The “Refugees and Enterprise” conference identified barriers to self-employment, such as business culture, language difficulties and access to credit, and ways of overcoming these.

03.05.2004 The government is to risk a clash with the medical profession by announcing a crackdown on failed asylum seekers and other non-EU nationals receiving free NHS treatment from GPs.