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Pascal's pride
Jun 1 2006 – Evening Gazette
He fled from Guinea unable to speak any English but now he's on his way to being an engineer

 

National News

 

Refugees celebrate input into city

Jun 1 2006 – Leeds Evening Gazette
AN All-Nations Football Tournament is to be staged in Leeds as part of nationwide celebrations of the contribution made by refugees to British society.

 

Is this the way to treat refugees?

Jun 1 2006 – Leicester Mercury

The idea of electronic monitoring - telephone calls, tagging and surveillance devices - appears to be growing in popularity with the Home Office.

 

Two thugs punch refugee to ground in drunken attack
Jun 1 2006 – Plymouth Evening Herald

A Plymouth refugee was punched and left bleeding on the ground in an attack by two drunken men on Saturday night.

 

A semantic deportation
Guardian Unlimited, UK -
... ever since she arrived. They've ploughed up and down the asylum process, making a case, entering appeals. But there's a bizarre ...

 

Book Review: Unspeak by Steven Poole
Monsters and Critics.com, UK - ...

'The term `asylum seeker` had gradually replaced `refugee,` ' he writes, 'shifting the emphasis from what a person was fleeing to the demands he was making on ...

 

You call for Islan to stay
This is Swindon, UK -
... But their asylum application was rejected, because they say Islan, 39, did not tell the authorities about everything that had happened to him. ...

Youngsters in need are seen as migrants first, children second
ic Wales, United Kingdom -
... She also added, "This evidence can be seen in the current treatment of children in the asylum determination process, in the increasing number of disputes over ...

 

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