The following is a roundup of refugee and asylum stories in the UK Media. For international news stories, a good source is the UNHCR news and media page
August
News Roundup
MP says 'let asylum seekers work'
http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/MP-39let-asylum-seekers-work39.4353345.jp
Detainees go on hunger strike at Oxfordshire immigration centre
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/aug/15/immigration?gusrc=rss&feed=uknews
Teenage Afghan refugee heads for Oxford after 4 As
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/education/2556733/Teenage-Afghan-refugee-heads-for-Oxford-after-4-As.html
Sudanese refugee flies the flag for America: Lopez Lomong's Olympic role tells important tale to world audience
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4480590.ece
Revd Canon Nick Sagovsky, of Westminster Abbey, spent a week from 11 to 17 July living on the food and income available to a refused asylum-seeker.
http://www.church-poverty.org.uk/campaigns/livingghosts/endurancechallengeblog
A south London police custody suite where immigration detainees are held is "unhygienic and unsafe" and should be closed, a report has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7544133.stm
GPs demand right to treat refugees
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/aug/03/health.health
Anger over asylum seeker’s deportation
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2418342.0.Anger_over_asylum_seekers_deportation.php
The Rights of Women Seeking Asylum: a Charter
http://refugeecouncil.typepad.com/poliblog/2008/08/the-rights-of-w.html
Beijing Olympic athletes get the chance to give hope to refugees
http://www.unhcr.org/news/NEWS/4896f44b4.html
"Refugees must be able to reunite with their family members"
http://www.coe.int/t/commissioner/Viewpoints/Default_en.asp
July
News Roundup – 11/07/08
Suffer the Children – The way we treat Asylum Children reveals a civil liberties double standard
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/08/children.immigration
UK is sending Zimbabwean Refugees home
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/06/immigration.immigrationpolicy
Pressure grows to release detained Zimbabwean Asylum Seekers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/03/immigration.immigrationpolicy
Britons may be jailed if relatives overstay
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jun/26/immigrationpolicy.immigration
City aiming for sanctuary status
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/7473140.stm
UN warns of growth in Climate Change refugees
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4159923.ece
June
News Roundup – 25/06/08
Refugees: On the deportation frontline
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2008/jun/13/deportation.asylum.seekers
Communities banding together to prevent deportations
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jun/13/immigration.immigrationpolicy
The hell of being an asylum seeker
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jun/15/immigration.familyandrelationships
Police use dogs and helicopters to control detainees after a fire at a refugee centre
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jun/15/immigration
Changing perceptions – casting different light on asylum seekers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/gallery/2008/jun/16/refugee.week?picture=334991644
Driven beyond despair by a control order
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jun/17/civilliberties.immigration
Let them give something back
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/18/immigration.immigrationpolicy
Racism against refugees to be main focus of film festival
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jun/20/refugeefilms
Deafness fear for girl facing deportation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jun/23/immigration.immigrationpolicy
UN warning on world refugee day
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7464901.stm
Refugee Movie shown at film festival
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7463187.stm
Refugee walks barefoot to London
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/7458088.stm
Exhibition to show refugee crisis
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7449077.stm
Europe urged not to turn away Iraqi Refugees
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/europe-urged-not-to-turn-away-iraqi-refugees-848507.html
NHS neglects Refugee Doctors
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/nhs-neglects-refugee-doctors-says-bma-847472.html
What happened next? Kurdish Girl wins asylum
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/what-happened-next-kurdish-girl-wins-asylum-852037.html
Detention Centres to be expanded
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/detention-centres-to-be-expanded-831022.html
News Roundup – 11/05/08
Iraq Refugees corralled as Home Office widens her net
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jun/11/immigration.immigrationpolicy
Briton sues over deportation as failed asylum seeker
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/07/humanrights.pakistan
A city built on sanctuary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jun/04/asylum.support.sheffield
Adrift in the UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/05/immigration.immigrationpolicy
Yearning to be Free
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/01/yearningtobefree
Stowaways may have suffocated in Ship’s hold
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/28/immigration.scotland
Plea for ‘destitute’ asylum group
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/7431297.stm
Court rejects HIV Asylum Seeker
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7421045.stm
May
News Roundup – 22/05/08
Extra Immigration Detention Places
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7408121.stm
Funding cuts to refugee charity
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7412023.stm
Refugee set to become model
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/england/7411517.stm
Numbers seeking asylum increase by 16%
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/20/immigration.immigrationandpublicservices
Boy, three, suffering from sickle cell anaemia to be deported
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/17/immigrationpolicy.immigration
Gay Iranian granted leave to stay
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7411706.stm
Free NHS for failed asylum seekers in Wales
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7409265.stm
‘Asylum’ a negative word
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7409652.stm
News Roundup – 09/05/08
Kurdish father-to- be set for deportation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/apr/25/immigration.immigrationpolicy
Migrants targeted as race crime soars
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/27/race.ukcrime
Do I stay or do I go?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/28/immigration.china
Schools can do more to help refugee children integrate
http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/news/news/2008/may/20080507_b.htm
