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Good Intentions: A review of the New Asylum Model and its impact on trafficked women claiming asylum is a new joint research report by the POPPY Project and Asylum Aid.
Birmingham: A City in Need of Hope? analyses the situation of asylum seekers and refugees living in the West Midlands, using the Independent Asylum Commission’s Interim [...]
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The House of Commons Communities and Local Government Committee has published Community Cohesion and Migration – the results of its inquiry into the effects of migration on local communities and cohesion in England and actions to address these effects.
See also BBC coverage
Integration and Diversity in the UK is a summary of work to date and [...]
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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published Community engagement and community cohesion, a new report which looks at whether engagement and cohesion initiatives take into account the views of new communities, such as refugees or migrant workers, and how they may be affected by changes in local government structures.
On a similar note it has also published [...]
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The Independent Asylum Commission has published its second report of Conclusions and Recommendations entitled ‘Safe Return: how to improve what happens when we refuse people sanctuary.’ Press coverage here and here
‘Mauritania: “Nobody wants to have anything to do with us” ‘ is a new report from Amnesty International focussing on the arrests and removals of [...]
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Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (PAFRAS) have released a briefing paper on racism, destitution and asylum, examining links between racial victimization and destitution.
A warm welcome? Public services and managing migration in London is a new report by Michael Bell Associates for the London Asylum Seekers Consortium commissioned “as a scoping exercise to explore the [...]
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Refugees and home country politics
To what extent do refugees and asylum seekers in the UK maintain interest in the political situation ‘back home’? A great deal, if the impassioned contributions from the floor at a recent public debate on the state of the war in Colombia are anything to go by. But research on this question currently appears thin [...]
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