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"... Europe needs both highly skilled and unskilled immigrants to fill labour shortfalls. Yet people are scared. This is the paradox that Europe faces. The market - as often happens - turns out to be more progressive than either politics or popular sentiment. To put it crudely: we want immigrants to work during the day and contribute to the growth of our economies and thus our welfare; but we do not want them to walk the streets of our cities at night." Observer The fall of fortress Europe
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Spain delays migrant deportation
Spain has postponed the repatriation of about 100 illegal migrants to Senegal from the Canary Islands. (BBC, 14 Sep 2006)
Migrants prompt tourism fears
Nearly 19,000 migrants have arrived in the Canary Islands this year
The Canary Islands are at bursting point.
Not the beaches and hotels that cater for millions of tourists each year, but the police stations, courts and detention centres being used to house the boatloads of illegal immigrants risking the ocean crossing from west Africa. (BBC, 10 Sep 2006)
Alarm at Spain's migrant children
Authorities in Spain's Canary Islands have raised concerns over 700 unaccompanied children who have arrived by boat. (BBC, 24 Aug 2006)
Canaries' migrant wave hits 1,000
The number of illegal immigrants arriving in Spain's Canary Islands from the north-west coast of Africa over the past three days has hit 1,000. (BBC, 20 Aug 2006)
Two worlds collide as Tenerife sunbathers rush to help migrants
The sun was sinking towards the west and the bathers were packing up and gathering in a bar at the end of the beach for a chilled beer when someone shouted: "Oh my God, there's another boat." (Telegraph, 5 Aug 2006)
Fishing for a better future in Senegal
Mbour is a small Senegalese town not more than 100km away from where international delegates have been grappling with the issue of immigration at a conference in the capital, Dakar.
...Instead of spending weeks in the high seas looking for fish, a resource they say is becoming scarce, many young Mbourois would rather head to the Canary Islands, where more than 7,500 migrants have already landed this year in the hope of reaching mainland Spain. (BBC, 7 Jun 2006)
Mystery over ghost ship migrants
Authorities in Barbados are still trying to discover how a boat carrying the bodies of 11 men was found adrift off the Barbadian coast a month ago. (BBC, 30 May 2006)
After four months at sea, ghost ship with 11 petrified corpses washes up in Barbados
The white ghost ship rolled in the Atlantic swell as the rescue boats approached it 70 nautical miles off Ragged Point, one of the most easterly places on the Caribbean island of Barbados.
The yacht was unmarked, 6 metres (20ft) long, and when Barbadian coastguard officers boarded it, they made a gruesome find. The boat's phantom crew was made up of the desiccated corpses of 11 young men, huddled in two separate piles in the small cabin. (Guardian, 29 May 2006)
Migrants flock to Canaries
The Canary Islands are Europe's winter sun playground, attracting up to 10 million tourists every year.
But now the continent's southernmost border is no longer just a tourist destination - it is being used as a staging post for illegal immigrants who want to enter Europe. (BBC, 26 May 2006)
Jobs easier to find as we're white, Poles claim
Polish migrants who have flocked to Britain since EU expansion believe that their 'whiteness'; is helping them to find work, according to a study published yesterday.
But the report also found covert racist views among migrants and hostility towards multiculturalism in Britain. Poles emphasised that being 'white'; was an advantage and that that was what English employers were telling them. (Times, 18 May 2006)
Refugees land on holiday beach
After a dangerous voyage that claims many lives each year, 38 illegal African immigrants landed on Fuerteventura island yesterday.
...A report last week said that in six months an estimated 4,000 immigrants, the vast majority from sub-Sahara, had died in their attempt to find a new life in Europe. (Telegraph, 6 May 2006)
Stowaways 'faced death' on ship
A group of suspected illegal immigrants who had been in a container for nearly three weeks were "saved from death" by sharp-eared dock workers. (BBC, 13 Apr 2006)
Death stalks boat people of the Canaries
Gangs making huge profits smuggling people from Africa have established a terrifying but highly effective new route into Europe: by small boat from the lawless coasts of Mauritania to the tourist beaches of the Canary Islands. (Telegraph, 18 Mar 2006)
North African migrants drown in rough seas
Nine migrants drowned and more were feared dead after their boat hit rough weather off Sicily's southern coast yesterday. More than 170 people survived. (Guardian, 19 Nov 2005)
Deportation or death?
A man who drowned in Salford Quays was a failed asylum seeker who may have been fleeing oppression in Zimbabwe.
Edmore Ngwenya, 26, appeared to commit suicide last month by stepping into the Manchester Ship Canal. (Manchester Online, 5 Oct 2005)
Italy repatriates 180 boatpeople
Italy has repatriated some 180 illegal migrants following mass landings of boat people on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, off North Africa. (BBC, 18 Mar 2005)
Migrants found off Canary Islands
Police in the Canary Islands have intercepted one of the largest groups of would-be immigrants ever to reach Spanish waters from Africa by boat.
...A Moroccan immigrant workers' association says about 4,000 would-be illegal immigrants have drowned making such journeys in the last five years. (BBC, 7 Feb 2005)
Migrants die in icy sea crossing
Thirteen African would-be migrants have been found dead aboard a makeshift boat after a desperate attempt to reach the Canary Islands, Spanish officials said. (BBC, 23 Dec 2004)
Two die as boat sinks near Spain
A boat packed with Africans capsized yesterday while trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands, leaving two people dead and 16 missing, officials said.
...A Moroccan immigrant workers' association, ATIME, says some 4,000 would-be immigrants have drowned in the past five years while trying to make such trips. (Gulf Daily News, 29 Nov 2004)
Migrants flock to Canaries
The Canary Islands are Europe's winter sun playground, attracting up to 10 million tourists every year.
But now the continent's southernmost border is no longer just a tourist destination - it is being used as a staging post for illegal immigrants who want to enter Europe. (BBC, 20 Oct 2004)
Refugee electrocuted while trying to slip through Channel Tunnel
An illegal immigrant trying to sneak in to Britain was electrocuted and killed while hiding on top of a freight train headed toward the Channel Tunnel. (Ananova, 19 Jan 2002)
Czechs to monitor 'racist' British in gipsy row
British immigration officers stationed at Prague airport are to be monitored by Czech human rights observers after accusations of "racist" controls on Roma gipsies seeking passage to Britain. (Telegraph, 1 Aug 2001)
West Africa's delicate fishing balance
In the second part of his investigation of West Africa's fishing industry, Tim Judah looks at the tough task local officials face in preserving a unique environment. (BBC, 1 Aug 2001)
The battle for West Africa's fish
As the European Commission (EC) negotiates to strike a major new fisheries agreement with the West African state of Mauritania, Tim Judah examines the strain this places on the region's own fishing stocks. (BBC, 31 Jul 2001)
Asylum seekers attempt to cross channel on Lilos
Two asylum seekers yesterday tried to cross the English Channel on two children's Lilos.
(Guardian, 31 Jul 2001)
Asylum seekers try to cross Channel on children's rafts
Two would-be asylum seekers used children's inflatable rafts in a desperate attempt to paddle across the English Channel. (Ananova, 30 Jul 2001)
The fall of fortress Europe
Immigration is a growing political problem in Europe - but governments must learn from the US and recognise that they need the benefits which it can bring. (Guardian, 29 Jul 2001)
The man who fell to earth
A month after he died, police have finally managed to piece together the skeletal details of Mohammed Ayaz's long journey from a remote village in north west Pakistan to his final, sorry end in the car park of a DIY superstore in Richmond, west London. (Guardian, 18 Jul 2001)
Africans drown as migrant boat sinks off the Canaries
At least 15 African migrants drowned off Spain's Canary islands yesterday when the fragile boat they were travelling in sank while trying to take them to Europe, police said. (Guardian, 1 Jun 2001)
Dover Tragedy Repeated, 26 Suffocated Illegal Migrants Thrown into Sea
More than 60 illegal immigrants, tried to enter South Korea by hiding themselves in an airtight fish cabin. During the voyage 26 of them were suffocated to death and their bodies were thrown into sea by South Korean human smugglers in an attempt to eliminate evidence of their crime. (People's Daily, 10 Apr 2001)
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