About 40 men returned in October to the vessel, which is moored in Portland harbor in Dorset. The barge, which has capacity to house some 500 people, is part of the British government’s plans to tackle huge costs in housing thousands of asylum-seekers and to deter migrants from crossing...
Asylum seekers in the UK : A social psycholegical understanding of a moral panicJulia Michelle Pearce
After Brexit, London will no longer have access to EURODAC or the Dublin protocol. And while the transfers represent a tiny fraction of the UK's asylum claimants, it was the only mechanism the UK had for moving asylum-seekers to other EU countries and vice versa. Watch: How ...
UKasylumMany aspects of the UK asylum process can be confusing,disempowering and traumatic for lesbian asylum seekers. Recentresearch examines the impacts of this process on their experiences,their identity and their well-being.Claire Bennett
This title examines in detail the emergence and content of the increasingly comprehensive legal regime in the UK addressing refugees and asylum seekers. Since the early 1990s asylum law has steadily evolved into what is now a clearly demarcated area of law and administration. This book explores the...
asylum-seekersinformationpolicysmugglersthe UKReceived wisdom suggests that asylum-seekers come to the UK because of the generosity of the welfare state and the ease of finding work in the growing informal labour market, because the UK has no identity cards, and because of a fairly poor record ...
RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook refugee (redirected fromAsylum-seekers) Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia Related to Asylum-seekers:refugee status ref·u·gee (rĕf′yo͝o-jē′) n. One who flees, especially to another country, seeking refuge fro...
Asylum seekers living in the UK are identified as a vulnerable group in contemporary society. Empirical results from in-depth interviews are drawn upon in the paper to uncover the everyday experiences of asylum seekers. This material is then employed to engage critically with the concept of ‘vul...
This chapter draws on research I conducted as part of consultancy work commissioned by the Bristol City Council in the summer of 2009, in order to rewrite the 'Asylum Seekers and Refugees' myth-busting booklet aimed at addressing public hostility towards people seeking sanctuary in the UK. In ...
This work takes a critical look at the detention of persons fleeing persecution by situating it an expanding culture of control stoked by the criminology of the other. The article offers evidence of a steady increase in the reliance on detention of asylum seekers in the US, UK, France, ...