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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
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>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
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>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
>
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>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.
>
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>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.
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>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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