http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7507000/7507060.stm
Increasingly desperate migrants from West Africa are crossing the Med on makeshift rafts, risking and sometimes losing their lives.
http://www.menassat.com/?q=en/news-articles/3877-sleeping-giant-foreign-workers-dubai
The sleeping giant: Foreign workers in Dubai | Menassat - long article describing working conditions in Dubai for East Asian workers. Scroll down to the video/photo essay for some evocative images.
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/531541-pakistani-workers-double-in-bahrain
Pakistani workers double in Bahrain - Construction & Industry - ArabianBusiness.com
Open discussion on BBC News Online 1 April 2008:
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=4551
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=4551
Record immigration levels have had little impact on Britons' economic well-being and should be capped, peers say:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7322825.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7322825.stm
Open discussion on BBC News Online 27 March 2008:
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=4535
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=4535
3 video stories from The Independent Asylum Commission and Human Rights TV, on BBC News Online 27 March 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7314708.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7314708.stm
Asylum system 'shameful for UK' - BBC News Online 27 March 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7314710.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7314710.stm
Mori Poll detailing UK perceptions of and attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers -
http://www.ipsos-mori.com/polls/2002/refugee.shtml
http://www.ipsos-mori.com/polls/2002/refugee.shtml