This article is about navigating asylum, employment and language policy in a new country as an asylum seeker. Through the story of one individual, we show
King County’s migrant and asylum-seeker crisis has continued to slowly grow over the last year,estimated to exceed 1,000 people now. Almost all of them come through Bolerjack’s church doors. Seattle and King County have chippe...
in essence, in violation of the United Nations Refugee Convention. No mention on the right to asylum is ever made; nor to the right not to be prejudiced against as an asylum seeker in terms of means of arrival. And that’s merely the start. In gazing...
Following Bowker (2005): “data should be cooked with care” (p. 184), as it is only when the individual asylum seeker and the caseworker can both navigate the process of data production and case construction that an asylum case is sufficiently documented. Why? Because a fundamental principle...
By definition, if you come from a safe country, which in these cases France is, then you are not an Asylum Seeker. Simple – 5 mins max to reject their claim, discover where they came from originally, and send them back. What about the children? do we mean the 10 year old with the...
General Election 2005: Tory Asylum Seeker Letter to Wirral Voters AttackedByline: EXCLUSIVE BY ROB MERRICKDaily Post (Liverpool, England)
‘fake friends’. These were people they had—by their own admission—once mistakenly called friends but who had betrayed, deceived, or taken advantage of them. Most only alluded to such experiences and referred to them in the past. For example, Ricky, a Nigerian asylum-seeker, spoke about...
Asylum seeker September 8, 2020 Hi Jason. I got two updates after my asylum interview, One says decision was mailed “ We reached a decision in your case. You should expect to receive the decision in the mail shortly. You must follow the instructions in your decision letter as to what ...
the boxes that we left blank were boxes where there was no answer–for example, for a client without a middle name, we left the “middle name” box blank. In another case, on the signature page where the form asks for your name in your native alphabet, we left it blank because the ...
Moreover, this beginning of a discourse in national terms was not limited to refugee and asylum-seeker support groups that were part of the third sector and civil society in Wales. It also included individuals in the emerging realm of devolved Welsh politics, who were willing to drive this ...