Dear Paul,
It would be either:
1) a living creature
2) a domestic animal, especially a cow, horse or mule
3) a person
or
4) a member of the critical geography list.
Take your pick!
Peace-Nick
>-----Original Message-----
>From: paul hanson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 09 May 2007 19:32
>To: Nick Megoran; [log in to unmask]
>Subject: RE: Strangers into citizens
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>What might a critter be? Paul
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>>From: Nick Megoran <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: Nick Megoran <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Strangers into citizens
>>Date: Wed, 9 May:23:42 +0100
>>
>>Dear Critters,
>>
>>Please consider asking your MP to sign an early day motion in support
>>of a campaign to grant a citizenship amnesty to unregistered
>long-term
>>migrants in the UK. You can contact your MP via www.WriteToThem.com,
>>and the campaign website is:
>(www.strangersintocitizens.org.uk). Here's
>>a sample letter you could use.
>>
>>Peace - Nick
>>
>>-
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>>
>>Address/date
>>
>>Dear ...,
>>
>>
>>I am writing to ask you to consider expressing your support for the
>>'Strangers into Citizens' campaign proposal for a pathway into
>>citizenship for long-term undocumented migrants.
>>
>>The campaign by the Citizen Organising Foundation, the UK's largest
>>network of civic groups (churches, mosques, schools, trade unions
>>grouped in London
>> Citizens and Birmingham Citizens), has support from a
>number of MPs,
>>who recently tabled an EDM.
>>
>>Support has also come from faith leaders, trade unions,
>businesses and
>>NGOs concerned at the emergence of a sub-class of person in today's
>>Britain who are part of our society yet without access to the basic
>>rights which its citizens take for granted.
>>
>>A one-off regularisation measure, of the sort which has been
>>implemented in other EU countries, but tailored to the UK's needs,
>>would liberate the up to 500,000 visa overstayers and refused asylum
>>seekers which the Home Office concedes are irregular yet will
>not be (except a few) deported.
>>
>>On 7 May there was be a large gathering in Trafalgar Square
>calling for
>>a new Home Office regulation that would allow undocumented
>migrants who
>>have been in the UK for more than four years to be given a two-year
>>work permit, at the end of which - subject to the usual criminal
>>checks, English test, and positive references - they would be
>given leave to remain.
>>
>>The proposal has been carefully worked out to ensure that the UK's
>>borders continue to be controlled while liberating thousands from
>>dehumanising limbo. It is not a liberalisation of immigration, nor a
>>relaxation of border controls; Strangers into Citizens does
>not oppose
>>current attempts to enforce the borders, but argues that
>regularisation
>>should be concurrent with these. The six-year pathway annuls any
>>potential magnetic effect on further immigration which such a
>>regularisation
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>The EDM (1371) was tabled on 27 April, has cross-party
>support, and reads:
>>
>>'That this House recognises the government's commitment to tighten UK
>>borders and introduce new monitoring and assessment systems into the
>>Immigrations Process; notes the Home Office assessment that up to
>>500,000 irregular migrants currently live and work in Britain;
>>recognises that the overwhelming majority make a valuable economic
>>contribution despite living under the shadow of illegality;
>>acknowledges the IPPR estimation that regularisation of
>certain groups
>>of migrant workers could raise £1bn in taxes; congratulates the
>>'Strangers into Citizens' campaign for the one off regularisation of
>>long term 'irregular' migrants through a pathway to
>citizenship; calls
>>for a full cross-party debate to consider granting a two year work
>>permit to migrants who have lived in the UK for more than
>four years, following which they are granted 'Indefinite Leave
>to Remain'
>>subject to an English test and positive references from an
>employer or
>>person of standing in the community'.
>>
>>The signatories are:
>>Jon Cruddas MP Labour; Dagenham.
>>Diane Abbott MP Labour; Hackney North and Stoke Newington.
>>Dr Evan Harris MP; Lib/Dem; Oxford West and Abingdon.
>>Neil Gerrard MP; Labour; Walthamstow.
>>Karen Buck MP; Labour; Regent's Park and North Kensington.
>>John Bercow MP; Conservative; Buckingham.
>>
>>
>>I would be very glad if you could add your name to these.
>>
>>There is more information at www.strangersintocitizens.org.uk.
>>
>>The campaign co-ordinator, Austen Ivereigh, would be very happy to
>>answer any queries you may have. His email is
>>[log in to unmask] and his mobile is.
>>
>>Yours sincerely,
>>
>>...
>>
>>--
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>-
>>Dr Nick Megoran,
>>Lecturer in Human Geography,
>>School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, GPS Office, 5th Floor,
>>Claremont Tower.
>>Newcastle University,
>>Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, England.
>>
>>Tel: Email: [log in to unmask] Website:
>www.megoran.org
>>
>>"In our time of wars, of national self-conceit, of national
>jealousies
>>and hatreds ably nourished by people who pursue their own egotistic,
>>personal or class interests, geography must be - in so far as the
>>school may do anything to counterbalance hostile influences - a means
>>of dissipating these prejudices and of creating other
>feelings more worthy of humanity."
>>Peter Kropotkin, 'What geography ought to be', 1885.
>
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