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    Immigration Handbook: Poems by Caroline Smith
    Immigration Handbook: Poems by Caroline Smith
    Immigration Handbook: Poems by Caroline Smith
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    Immigration Handbook: Poems by Caroline Smith

    By Caroline Smith

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    Inspired by her years as an Immigration Caseworker to one of the most diverse inner-city areas in the UK, Caroline Smith has written a collection of poems, The Immigration Handbook, that details the many troubling and moving incidents in the lives of those she tries to help. This is a book that reaches out of the headlines into our hearts.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeren
    Release dateAug 1, 2016
    ISBN9781781723227
    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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      Book preview

      Immigration Handbook - Caroline Smith

      for Barry

      Seren is the book imprint of

      Poetry Wales Press Ltd.

      57 Nolton Street, Bridgend, Wales, CF31 3AE

      www.serenbooks.com

      facebook.com/SerenBooks

      twitter@SerenBooks

      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

      ebook: 978-1-78172-322-7

      Kindle: 978-1-78172-323-4

      A CIP record for this title is available from the British Library.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted at any time or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the copyright holder.

      The publisher acknowledges the financial assistance of the Welsh Books Council.

      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

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