Category - immigration controls

Lord Carey is wrong on immigration, critics say

staff writers — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:33:41 +0100

People working with migrants in the churches and civic organisations have expressed dismay at the recent comments on immigration by former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, who has joined a cross-party group calling for stricter controls.

Response to Lord Carey on immigration

Press Office — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:02:04 +0100

Commenting on former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey's comments about immigration, printed in the Times today (Wednesday 10 September 2008) Ekklesia associate and URC minister Vaughan Jones, wh

Lutherans call for removal of HIV-related travel restrictions

staff writers — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:09:50 +0100

At a meeting in Arusha, Tanzania, the Council of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has called on its member churches to advocate for the removal of discriminatory travel and entry restrictions, and similar examples of stigmatizations to people living with HIV.

New immigrants take housing rejected by others, says report

staff writers — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:21:55 +0000

A new report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that rather than taking housing from local residents, as critics claim, new immigrants tend to fill voids in the housing stock left behind or rejected by other households.

The Big Questions, BBC 1, 23 September 2007

Press Office — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:41:09 +0100

'Does love of neighbour mean we should pursue a more open immigration policy?

Canadian Mennonite agency presses for action on refugees

staff writers — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Threats, intimidation, assassinations and massacres have forced about 3.5 million Colombians to flee their homes and relocate to other areas in the country - writes Gladys Terichow of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), the North American peace church relief and development organisation.

Catholic report shows that migration is about need not numbers

staff writers — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

A university-based Catholic research institute at the University of Cambridge has published a report which illustrates the shocking conditions endured by many migrant workers contributing to the economic life of the UK.

Are immigration controls moral?

Vaughan Jones — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:41:49 +0100

This is a paper delivered by Ekklesia associate Vaughan Jones to the inaugural meeting of the Westminster Forum, looking at the ethics of migration, and whether immigration controls are in fact practical, expedient, realistic, necessary or moral. If there is a crisis, whose is it? Should be pursuing a long term policy of the opening up of our borders? The intimate historic dependence of Christianity on people movements, and the prophetic biblical call for justice toward sojourners and strangers is basic to the author's perspective. Vaughan Jones is director of Praxis, a multi-agency initiative working with displaced people in London. He is a United Reformed Church minister.

Vaughan Jones