Home Office criticised over asylum rejections

Title

Home Office criticised over asylum rejections

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1983

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Duration

00:02:16

Description

Interview with Razo Marzotic(?), spokesman for an unidentified refugee group (poss. European Liaison Group), criticising the record of the UK Home Office record on granting asylum to political refugees from Eastern Europe following a series of high profile deportations and asylum rejections including Romanian Stancu Papusoiui and the Starosta family from Bedford. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Razo Marzotic(?)

Keywords

Deportation; Government; UK; Migration policy; Communism; Czechoslovakia; Political refugees; Eastern Europe; Yugoslavia; Romania; Asylum seekers; Stancu Papusoiu; Slavek Starosta; Jara Starosta

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