LINKS

• The Home Office Immigration and Nationality Division
  http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/

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• The Immigration Appellate Authority
  http://www.iaa.gov.uk/

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• National Asylum Support Service
  http://www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/default.asp?PageId=89

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• The Refugee Council
  http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk

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• Refugees Studies Centre, Oxford
  http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/

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• Asylum Support Information Service
  http://www.asylumsupport.info

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• UNHCR
  http://www.unhcr.org/

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• Convention on rights of the child
  http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/k2crc.htm

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• BBC special report into refugees
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2001/road_to_refuge/default.stm

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• The Guardian, August 1999 - Beginner's guide to the refugee crisis
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3896332,00.html

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• The Guardian Asylum News
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/Refugees_in_Britain/0,2759,180745,00.html

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• The Schengen Information System, a database to support border controls
  http://www.ex.ac.uk/politics/pol_data/undergrad/paterson/page4.html

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• Smart cards with biometric data
  http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2103696,00.html

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• EURODAC - EU fingerprint database
  A shared central database of asylum seekers' fingerprints. Any EU country can access this database to track whether an individual over the age of 14 has previously applied for asylum elsewhere. The Dublin Convention provides for the comprehensive exchange of personal data on asylum seekers between the member states for the purpose of determining the state responsible for examining an asylum examination. As well as exchanging applicants' personal details such as identity and travel documents, places of residence and travel routes, member states also bind themselves to communicate "other information necessary for establishing the identity of the applicant". Fingerprints are considered such "other information".
  Further Links:
  - Final agreement reached on EU fingerprint database for asylum seekers
  http://www.britain-info.org/law/xq/asp/SarticleType.1/Article_ID.2154/qx/articles_show.htm

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  - EURODAC computer to hold fingerprints of all asylum seekers
  http://www.fecl.org/circular/4601.htm

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