Immigration Handbook: Poems by Caroline Smith
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Caroline Smith
Dr. Caroline Smith is an independent specialist educational psychologist with extensive experience of working in the field of autism. Having formerly been a Principal Educational Psychologist working in local authority settings, Dr.Caroline has worked closely with the parents and teachers of pre-school and school-aged children attending mainstream and special schools. Also co-authored 'Special FRIENDS' a new 2015 addition to the FRIENDS materials focusing on the needs of young people with ASD.
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Immigration Handbook - Caroline Smith
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The right of Caroline Smith to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
© Caroline Smith 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78172-321-0
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Cover Artwork: ‘Panel 57: the female workers were the last to arrive north, 1940-41’ copyright Estate of Jacob Lawrence. ARS, NY and DACS, London 2015.
Printed in Bembo by Bell & Bain Ltd, Glasgow.
Whilst the lives represented in these poems reflect actual events and experiences, all names have been changed and no individual is identifiable.
Contents
On Hold
The Boxer
The Scarlet Lizard
Lime Tree Honey
I.S 96
Brook Court
Teenager
Eaton House
Citizenship Ceremony
Luck
Selection
Red Road Flats
The Pilgrimage
The Jumper
Asylum Documents
Mrs Shah’s Complaint
The Administrative Removal Officer
Jozef Rexha – salesman
Judicial Consideration
Settlement
Delay
Pro Bono 1
Pro Bono 2
Fault Line
Tangiers
Spouse Visa
Removal
Valerie
Answer Machine
Apology
Judgements
The Strange Tale of the Immigration Judge & the Carpet Seller of Kampala
Note on Home Office file
Domestic worker
Home Office Files
Nativity
Ali
Removal Directions
Heron Flats
Advice Surgery in the Methodist Church Hall
Letters
Mr Giang
Nursery Tales
Father
Omnipotence
Dr Gopal
Surgery Note 1
Surgery Note 2
Appeal Judge
Asylum Interview
New email address
Promise
Chance
Stamps
Acknowledgements
‘It reduces the weight otherwise to be accorded to the requirements of firm and fair immigration control, if the delay is shown to be the result of a dysfunctional system which yields unpredictable, inconsistent and unfair outcomes.’
– Lord Bingham
I have found myself judge in the Court of King Shahrayar
A thousand and one tales of despair poured before me
From an un-stoppered jar
Stories of perilous journeys made over desert sands
Of palaces that rise up overnight only to disappear at dawn