Annual Report 2004/2005 - ICAR
Annual Report 2004/2005 - ICAR Annual Report 2004/2005 - ICAR
director was invited to be part of ITN’s Election Panel of Experts on hand to explainrefugee and asylum issues as they arose during the campaign.“The media url is thethird most frequent entrypoint for the website”Media and public appearancesBBC News on-line published the ICAR director’s response to the IPPR/SheffieldUniversity/BBC research ‘Born Abroad’; he also contributed to a BBC Radio Walesdocumentary ‘Scroungers’; his article on international migration was featured onopenDemocracy.com; he was interviewed for articles in Pacific News Service and aNorwegian-based publication. ICAR is The Link on BBC’s iCan pages on immigration,and other BBC stories on refugee and asylum issues.ICAR’s director has taken part in a number of public debates including a RefugeeWeek discussion at the Jewish Museum alongside journalists from the Observer,Financial Times and BBC.Media monitoring/researchICAR’s media officer monitors media coverage of refugee and asylum issues andworks closely with our media monitoring projects (currently for the GLA and theHome Office/Press Complaints Commission). Both are adding to ICAR’s growingexpertise in this area and raising ICAR’s profile in the field.For more information visit:www.icar.org.uk/mediaICAR 4th year report August 1 st 2004 to July 31 st 2005 18
ICAR programmesICAR continues to organise and extend the amount of available information aboutasylum and refugee issues, building a fund of expertise for ourselves and others. Staffare engaged on a number of programmes to collect, record and analyse new sourcesof information and expand existing ones to consolidate ICAR’s reputation as thesingle most authoritative source on asylum and refugees in the UK.Our programmes bring us into contact with refugees and asylum seekers, agencystaff, policy makers, researchers, and local people from across the UK, enabling us tokeep in touch with local concerns and initiatives and to update our information andservices accordingly. The programmes entail research projects, organised workshopsand conferences and written pieces for journals and the ICAR website. We aim tocontextualise this work in terms of global events, government policy and mediacoverage.For more information visit:www.icar.org.uk/programmesMedia and Political ImagesICAR is involved in a number of projects that monitor the representation of asylumand refugee issues in both national and local media:Asylum in the ElectionThroughout the general election campaign, we used ICAR’s web pages to monitorand examine the way politicians and the media dealt with issues around asylum andimmigration. ICAR highlighted instances where unsourced or unverified statisticswere being used and pointed people towards more credible available evidence.ICAR’s analysis was presented in two ways:‣ Bulletins – responding to specific speeches or news reports and providingselected links to further commentary to assist understanding.‣ Themes – organising information and evidence presented in the bulletins underthematic headings [numbers, removals, smuggling, resettlement, off-shoreprocessing, social cohesion and political images, identity, reasons for flight,quotas, decision-making].For more information visit:www.icar.org.uk/elction2005ICAR 4th year report August 1 st 2004 to July 31 st 2005 19
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director was invited to be part of ITN’s Election Panel of Experts on hand to explainrefugee and asylum issues as they arose during the campaign.“The media url is thethird most frequent entrypoint for the website”Media and public appearancesBBC News on-line published the <strong>ICAR</strong> director’s response to the IPPR/SheffieldUniversity/BBC research ‘Born Abroad’; he also contributed to a BBC Radio Walesdocumentary ‘Scroungers’; his article on international migration was featured onopenDemocracy.com; he was interviewed for articles in Pacific News Service and aNorwegian-based publication. <strong>ICAR</strong> is The Link on BBC’s iCan pages on immigration,and other BBC stories on refugee and asylum issues.<strong>ICAR</strong>’s director has taken part in a number of public debates including a RefugeeWeek discussion at the Jewish Museum alongside journalists from the Observer,Financial Times and BBC.Media monitoring/research<strong>ICAR</strong>’s media officer monitors media coverage of refugee and asylum issues andworks closely with our media monitoring projects (currently for the GLA and theHome Office/Press Complaints Commission). Both are adding to <strong>ICAR</strong>’s growingexpertise in this area and raising <strong>ICAR</strong>’s profile in the field.For more information visit:www.icar.org.uk/media<strong>ICAR</strong> 4th year report August 1 st <strong>2004</strong> to July 31 st <strong>2005</strong> 18
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