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National Roma Network Forum 28 September 2017 Sheffield Welcome - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
National Roma Network Forum 28 September 2017 Sheffield Welcome - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
National Roma Network Forum 28 September 2017 Sheffield Welcome and Overview Dave Brown Migration Yorkshire Panel Discussion Communities, Neighbourhood and Housing Panellists: Alexandra Bahor, Granby Toxteth Development Trust
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Panel Discussion Communities, Neighbourhood and Housing
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Panellists:
- Alexandra Bahor, Granby Toxteth
Development Trust
- Phil Brown, University of Salford
- Catherine Hughes, Sheffield City Council
- Sue Lukes, MigrationWork
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Local updates
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Lunch
Enjoy - please be back by 1:30pm!
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Roundtable Discussions Evaluation and Impact of National Roma Network
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Please focus your discussions around the following questions:
- 1. What do you think the NRN has done well
and what are its biggest achievements?
- 2. How could the NRN improve?
Please allow 20 minutes discussion for each
- question. When answering, please consider format
and content of meetings, email updates, website, etc…
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Race Disparity Audit – Proposed data on Roma
Marcus Bell Cabinet Office (Race Disparity Unit)
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Update on Brexit
Ewa Jamroz, Migration Yorkshire & Denisa Gannon, Co-Chair of NRN
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Legal position of EU nationals
- According to the Home Office no need to
apply for EEA residency documentation, as all EU nationals will have to apply for ‘settled status’ anyway
- Some indication that it will be easier to
get settled status (no income or CSI requirements)
- Government increasingly talks of several
years of transition so potentially longer time to accumulate years of residence
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Legal position of EU nationals
However…
- Leaked plans of the future immigration
system indicate EU nationals will be subject to similar rules as third country nationals
- In practice it means spouse visas
(income requirements), more difficult to bring family members, and harder for low skilled workers to come here
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In the meantime
EU nationals are anxious…
- Increase in EU nationals applying for
residence documentation continues (over 100K applications in Q2 2017 and nearly 350K in 12 months to June 2017)
- More EU nationals applying for British
nationality; but it is very expensive (over £1K per person for application and associated docs only) and need to have residence docs first
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In the meantime
EU nationals are anxious…
- Increase in EU nationals applying for
residence documentation continues (350K in 12 months to June 2017)
- More EU nationals applying for British
nationality; but it is very expensive and need to have residence docs first
- Reports of families requesting to de-
ascribe as Roma (in school) because of Brexit
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In the meantime
…rightly so?
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In the meantime
…rightly so?
- Recently reported examples of
discriminatory practices in employment and housing market, UK’s Equality Office is currently investigating
- Some EU nationals got letters telling them
to leave the country…
- …though Home Office immediately
apologised and confirmed it was an error
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In the meantime
More EU nationals are leaving the UK…
- Brexodus – latest ONS data shows
significant increase in departures of EU nationals, mainly from A8 countries
- But also A2 (Romania and Bulgaria)
- Anecdotal reports of Roma families
moving from the UK to other countries
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In the meantime
…but some can’t get back in
- While EU nationals are still coming to the
UK, there is a fall new arrivals, including from A2 countries
- Increase in EU nationals refused entry at
port (2,726 compared to 2,158 last year)
- Anecdotal evidence of Roma families
being stranded in France
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In the meantime
Agencies sharing info with Immigration Enforcement (IE)…
- Police
- Schools
- HMRC
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In the meantime
…links with removals?
- There were 20% more enforced returns
(5,301) of EU nationals in the year ending June 2017 compared with the previous 12 months (4,424)
- Nationals of Romania and Poland
accounted for 60% of EU enforced returns compared to 57% the same time a year ago
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NRN – what we are doing
- We are linked with other migrant
- rganisations and support their efforts to
secure the rights of EU nationals in the UK
- We are gathering information on Roma
experiences across the UK
- We are ensuring Roma voice is present
in the Brexit debate
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Final NRN Forum Meeting will be held in London on 14th December 2017
An invitation will be sent out shortly Hope to see you all there!
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