Home Office and Migration Trends

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Home Office and Migration Trends
Helen Earner Managed Migration and Review IND,
Home Office
21 July 2006
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Globalisation, population mobility and impact of
migration on population

• Familiar sources helpful analysis of trends,
  which support
  
• Key Home Office policies, which are designed to
  respond to current trends e.g. Points Based
  System
  
• Government priorities in the medium-long term,
  providing insights on the impact of migration
  policy on wider issues
  
• composition of communities (and what is
  desirable, e.g. deconcentration or dispersal)
  
  
• future demands on public goods (e.g. pensions)

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Home Office priorities the global context

• Global forces affecting us
• Borders becoming harder to define and maintain
• Instability in many parts of the world
• Enlargement of the EU current and planned
• Many more opportunities to travel
• Improvements in global communications
• Setting us many new challenges
• Mass migration and movement of people
• Organised crime across borders
• International terrorism
• Changes in communities

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Home Office achievements

• Many specific achievements within IND,
  including
  
• Meeting the tipping point target
• Developing and launching the points based system
• Implementing the new asylum model
• Establishing and growing the airline liaison
  officers network overseas
  
• UK visas capturing biometrics and more posts
  overseas

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Migration data gaps

• Embarkation control data to produce robust net
  migration flows (e-Borders)
  
• Methodology on skills gaps for the Skills
  Advisory Board
  
• Dependants
• Migration and social cohesion