Immigration Law Information Sources – Databases and the Internet

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
David Ogden
Keyword(s):  
Information Sources ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Immigration And Asylum ◽  
The Uk

Before 1905 there were no immigration laws in the UK. The first system of appeals in immigration cases was introduced by the Immigration Appeals Act 1969. Since then it has been subject to numerous changes. A full right of appeal to an adjudicator in asylum cases was first created by the Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993. Immigration law is governed by the Immigration Act 1971, with changes made by Immigration Acts in 1993, 1996, 1999, and most recently with the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002.

scholarly journals Empathy and Expertise: Case Workers and Immigration/Asylum Applicants in London

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (02) ◽  
pp. 430-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah James ◽  
Evan Killick
Keyword(s):  
State Funding ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
Legal Aid ◽  
Value For Money ◽  
Asylum Law ◽  
Case Worker ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
Immigration And Asylum ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Funding Cuts

Under recent reforms, the UK government has eroded state funding for civil legal aid. Funding cuts affect asylum and immigration law as produced, practiced, and mediated in the course of interactions between case workers and their clients in legal-aid-funded Law Centers in South London. The article explores the contradictory character of one-on-one relationships between case workers and clients. Despite pressure to quantify their work in “value for money” terms, the empathy that often motivates case workers drives them to provide exceptional levels of aid to their clients in facing an arbitrary bureaucracy. Such personalized commitment may persuade applicants to accept the decisions of that bureaucracy, thus reinforcing a hegemonic understanding of the power of the law. The article, however, challenges the assumption that, in attempting to shape immigrant/refugees as model—albeit second-class—citizens, case worker/client interactions necessarily subscribe to the categories and assumptions that underpin UK immigration and asylum law.

The Boston Medical Center Immigrant Task Force: An Alternative to Teaching Immigration Law to Health Care Providers

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-63
Author(s):  
Sondra S. Crosby ◽  
Lily Sonis ◽  
George J. Annas
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
Immigration And Asylum

AbstractAs healthcare providers engage in the politics of reforming and humanizing our immigration and asylum “system” it is critical that they are able to refer their patients whose health is directly impacted by our immigration laws and policies to experts who can help them navigate the system and obtain the healthcare they need.

scholarly journals Turning Asylum Seekers into ‘Dangerous Criminals’: Experiences of the Criminal Justice System of those Seeking Sanctuary

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monish Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Criminal Courts ◽  
The Public ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
The Us ◽  
Immigration And Asylum ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Tabloid Press ◽  
London Bombings

Since the events of 9/11 in the US in 2001 and, four years later, the 7/7 London bombings in the UK, warnings of terrorist attacks are high on the public agenda in many western countries. Politicians and tabloid press in the UK have continued to make direct and indirect connections between asylum seekers, terrorism and crime. This has increasingly resulted in harsh policy responses to restrict the movement of ‘third-world’ nationals, criminalisation of immigration and asylum policy, and making the violation of immigration laws punishable through criminal courts. This paper largely highlights the narratives of five asylum seekers who committed ‘crime’ by breaching immigration laws and were consequently treated as ‘dangerous criminals’ by the state authorities. More importantly it shows how these individuals experienced this treatment. The aim of this paper is to give voice to the victims of state abuse, claim space for victim agency, gather victim testimonies, challenge official explanations and in the process confront criminal and racist state practices.

scholarly journals The hostile environment and crimmigration: blurring the lines between civil and criminal law

Soundings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (76) ◽  
pp. 26-36
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hendry
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Due Process ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
Hostile Environment ◽  
Environment Policy ◽  
Immigration Laws ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Political Expediency ◽  
The Uk

The recent media furore surrounding the UK government's hostile environment policy and the treatment of the Windrush generation drew attention to the use of criminal law for regulatory purposes within the context of immigration. The proliferation of immigration offences, and the reproduction of criminal provisions in immigration laws, signals a blurring of the lines between the civil and criminal legal realms: while immigration law purports to be administrative in character it is often effected through criminal law, which is used against citizens and non-citizens in breach of immigration rules when immigration measures alone are ineffective. These 'crimmigration' measures can be understood as examples of hybrid proceduralism. The civil/criminal procedural hybrids used in 'crimmigration' processes are borne of ideologically motivated political expediency, and disproportionately disadvantage vulnerable populations, who are frequently portrayed as deviant. They privilege specific policy goals over considerations of human rights, civil liberties, and due process.

scholarly journals Health Information Provided by Retail Health Food Outlets

2000 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 767-771 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaclyn Calder ◽  
Robert Issenman ◽  
Ruth Cawdron
Keyword(s):  
Information Sources ◽  
Nutritional Supplements ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Research Assistant ◽  
Health Food ◽  
Herbal Supplements ◽  
Alternative Health ◽  
Food Stores ◽  
Source Of Information

Alternative health practices have become increasingly popular in recent years. Many patients visit specific complementary practitioners, while others attempt to educate themselves, trusting advice from employees at local health food stores or the Internet. Thirty-two retail health food stores were surveyed on the nature of the information provided by their staff. A research assistant visited the stores and presented as the mother of a child in whom Crohn’s disease had been diagnosed. Seventy-two per cent (23 of 32) of store employees offered advice, such as to take nutritional and herbal supplements. Of the 23 stores where recommendations were made, 15 (65%) based their recommendation on a source of information. Fourteen of the 15 stores using information sources used the same reference book. This had a significant impact on the recommendations; the use of nutritional supplements was favoured. In conclusion, retail health food stores are not as inconsistent as hypothesized, although there are many variances in the types of supplements recommended for the same chronic disease.

scholarly journals The role of the internet in testimony: the case of the ‘Forgotten Australians’

2014 ◽  
Vol 36 (8) ◽  
pp. 1151-1167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Adkins ◽  
Donna Hancox
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Church And State ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
National Museum Of Australia

This article examines the case of the Forgotten Australians as an opportunity to examine the role of the internet in the presentation of testimony. ‘Forgotten Australians’ are a group who suffered abuse and neglect after being removed from their parents – either in Australia or in the UK – and placed in Church- and State-run institutions in Australia between 1930 and 1970. The campaign by this profoundly marginalized group coincided with the decade in which the opportunities of Web 2.0 were seen to be diffusing throughout different social groups, and were considered a tool for social inclusion. We outline a conceptual framework that positions the role of the internet as an environment in which the difficult relationships between painful past experiences and contemporary injunctions to remember them, are negotiated. We then apply this framework to the analysis of case examples of posts and interaction on websites with web 2.0 functionality: YouTube and the National Museum of Australia. The analysis points to commonalities and differences in the agency of the internet in these two contexts, arguing that in both cases the websites provided support for the development of a testimony-like narrative and the claiming, sharing and acknowledgement of loss.

Social Exclusion and Transport in the UK: A Role for Virtual Accessibility in the Alleviation of Mobility-Related Social Exclusion?

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
SUSAN KENYON ◽  
JACKIE RAFFERTY ◽  
GLENN LYONS
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
Public Consultation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Physical Mobility ◽  
Viable Solution ◽  
Virtual Mobility ◽  
The Uk

This paper reports findings from research into the possibility that mobility-related social exclusion could be affected by an increase in access to virtual mobility – access to opportunities, services and social networks, via the Internet – amongst populations that experience exclusion. Transport is starting to be recognised as a key component of social policy, particularly in light of a number of recent studies, which have highlighted the link between transport and social exclusion, suggesting that low access to mobility can reduce the opportunity to participate in society – a finding with which this research concurs. Following the identification of this causal link, the majority of studies suggest that an increase in access to adequate physical mobility can provide a viable solution to mobility-related aspects of social exclusion.This paper questions the likelihood that increased physical mobility can, by itself, provide a fully viable or sustainable solution to mobility-related aspects of social exclusion. Findings from both a desk study and public consultation suggest that virtual mobility is already fulfilling an accessibility role, both substituting for and supplementing physical mobility, working to alleviate some aspects of mobility-related social exclusion in some sectors of society. The paper incorporates an analysis of the barriers to and problems with an increase in virtual mobility in society, and concludes that virtual mobility could be a valuable tool in both social and transport policy.

Health information needs, sources, and barriers of primary care patients to achieve patient-centered care: A literature review

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 992-1016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina A Clarke ◽  
Joi L Moore ◽  
Linsey M Steege ◽  
Richelle J Koopman ◽  
Jeffery L Belden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Information Search ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Medical Condition ◽  
Information Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Common Information ◽  
Primary Care Patients

To synthesize findings from previous studies assessing information needs of primary care patients on the Internet and other information sources in a primary care setting. A systematic review of studies was conducted with a comprehensive search in multiple databases including OVID MEDLINE, CINAHL, and Scopus. The most common information needs among patients were information about an illness or medical condition and treatment methods, while the most common information sources were the Internet and patients’ physicians. Overall, patients tend to prefer the Internet for the ease of access to information, while they trust their physicians more for their clinical expertise and experience. Barriers to information access via the Internet include the following: socio-demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, income, education, and occupation; information search skills; and reliability of health information. Conclusion: Further research is warranted to assess how to create accurate and reliable health information sources for both Internet and non-Internet users.

Development of a Relational Accident Database Management System for Mexican Federal Roads

2000 ◽  
Vol 1717 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-93
Author(s):  
Alberto Mendoza ◽  
Aristóteles Uribe ◽  
Claudia Z. Gil ◽  
Emilio Mayoral
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Management System ◽  
Database Management ◽  
Road Network ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Database Management System ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
The Ideal

Two years ago, the Mexican Transportation Institute began to develop a computer-based management system of the information collected by various organizations about accidents occurring on the Federal Road Network. This system combines the information gathered by these organizations with the purpose of completing and validating the data so that tools can be developed for processing and analyzing the validated data and the processed data and developed tools can be made available to users. It was decided to support the development of such efforts on computer databases already being generated, on database processing and management software, on geographic information systems, and on remote data-exchange systems (e.g., the Internet). The progress made so far in the development of the computer system is reviewed. The system has been named the “Relational Accident Database Management System for Mexican Federal Roads” (SAIACF, in Spanish). The information sources beneficial to this project are identified and analyzed. The ideal scheme conceived for the integration of the various information sources is presented, and the SAIACF system is outlined. Some of the results obtained after its application to the information corresponding to 1997 are shown. Also, the element that was generated to make the information and the tools available to users is described, and conclusions are drawn.

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