Migration and the Law: A Report on the UK Experience for the International Academy of Comparative Law

This report has been produced for the International Academy of Comparative Law, Paris. It informs academicians, researchers, and others about developments in the law of migration in the United Kingdom including entry and residence,and migrants' and migrant communities' social rights. It also informs a report to the Academy's proceedings at the forthcoming 19th International Congress of Comparative Law in Vienna (2014) as part of Theme 1A: Histoire du Droit et Ethnologie Juridique (Legal History and Ethnology) through the general report of the Rapporteur Général,Prof Marie-Claire Foblets of the University of Leuven and Max-Planck-Institut für Ethnologische Forschung, Halle, Germany. The report provides a critical evaluation of the development and current operation of the UK's migration law regime, history and influences, and commentary on current issues. It encompasses European and International Law aspects, and elements relating to access to social security, community care, and health provision.