Asylum Update – 23 October 2008

Research
UNHCR has published Asylum Levels and Trends in Industrialized Countries, covering the first half of 2008.
The Home Office has published its immigration statistics including asylum figures for the second quarter of 2008.
What Are They Doing Here? A Critical Guide to Asylum and Immigration by Peter Fell and Debrah Hayes (Venture 2007) is reviewed in [...]

Asylum Update – 15 October 2008

Research
UNHCR has recently published a series of new evaluation reports on different aspects of their work, including returnee reintegration programmes in the Sudan and Angola, voluntary repatriation, and human trafficking.
State failure and extra-legal justice: vigilante groups, civil militias and the rule of law in West Africa is a new report in the UNHCR series New [...]

Asylum Update – 9th October 2008

Research
Refugee Children: Towards the Next Horizon
Health and Social Care in the community
2008 16(5)
C, Watters and Dennis, J.

Unaccompanied refugee children and adolescents:
The glaring contrast between a legal and a psychological perspective
International Journal of Law and psychiatry
2008 31(4)
Derluyn, I and Broekaert, E.

The housing and neighbourhood impact of Britain’s changing ethnic
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
October 2008
Perry, J.
Policy and Law
The United [...]

Asylum Update – 2nd October 2008

Research
New journal article: Questions of inclusion and exclusion. Are there ways of achieving `real participation’ of users from refugee and asylum seeking groups in service development at an institutional and treatment level? by David Palmer and Cath Maffia in the Journal of Mental Health Education and Practice Vol 3 No 3. 
The European Council for Refugees [...]