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The British Academy is collecting such instances in order to make representations, and I shall forward Derek's message to them. I'll do the same with anything else of this sort that comes up on this list. Issues of Nobel prizewinners vs footballers and the potential damage to the UK's huge overseas student industry have been aired in the national press, but this low-level attrition is just as damaging. Best wishes, Nick
On 16/11/2010 13:42, Jarman, Freya wrote:
I heard a similar story recently where a keynote was sent back to his Canadian origins having made the rookie error of confessing he'd be being paid for the gig. The unpaid-ness of the cellist makes this tale all the more worrying, I think, but either way it is a real concern.
What can we do? I mean it as a serious question and will happily be involved in whatever we can come up with as a defence against such a deleterious position on the part of the UKBA.
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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:16:14 +0000
From: Derek B Scott<[log in to unmask]>
Subject: UK music conferences threatened by UK Border Agency
Dear All,
I write this with genuine concern. We have an international conference at
the University of Leeds this week, but immigration officials at Heathrow
Terminal 3 have sent one of our American delegates back to Chicago. Why? For
trying to get into the UK with the intention of playing a cello at the
conference. She was not being paid a penny for this, but these zealous
officers decided that playing a cello is work and, paid or unpaid, she could
not be allowed in. We now await with trepidation the fate of other Americans
attending the conference. Our Keynote speaker, for example, is American.
Since he is a professor, no doubt his speaking at a conference counts as
working.
When I spoke to immigration at Terminal 3, they appeared to have no idea
what a lecture recital was, what musicology was, or what musical
illustrations to a paper were. How on earth have we reached the point where
academics from the UK and USA are prevented from coming together to
disseminate knowledge of their subject at conferences? The potential damage
to British musical academic life is enormous.
Best wishes,
Derek
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