Family migration policies in the United Kingdom: actors, practices and concerns.
Project report
Kofman, E., Lukes, S. and Aaron, P. 2008. Family migration policies in the United Kingdom: actors, practices and concerns. Vienna International Centre for Migration Policy Development.
Type | Project report |
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Title | Family migration policies in the United Kingdom: actors, practices and concerns. |
Authors | Kofman, E., Lukes, S. and Aaron, P. |
Abstract | From the mid 1960s until 1997 immigration policy was largely concerned with curbing nonwhite immigration, and especially restricting marriage migration and other family members from the Indian sub continent. Much political and administrative effort was devoted to this end. Campaigning groups formed around these issues. There were also many legal challenges to the rules regulating the entry of family members. However with the abolition of the primary purpose rule in 1997 and the shift towards an interest in increasing labour migration within an overall managed migration policy and controlling the numbers of asylum |
Publisher | International Centre for Migration Policy Development |
Place of publication | Vienna |
Publication dates | |
2008 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 11 Mar 2010 |
Output status | Published |
Web address (URL) | http://research.icmpd.org/fileadmin/Research-Website/Project_material/NODE/UK_Advocacy_Report_Final.pdf |
Language | English |
Institution name | ICMPD |
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