City Hall launch of ICAR research on disabled refugees and asylum seekers

ICAR’s new research into levels of support for disabled refugees and asylum seekers was launched at London’s City Hall on 14 November. The research was commissioned by the Metropolitan Support Trust (MST) and supported by the Greater London Authority (GLA).
 
A full house of 100+ participants including many of the organisations and individuals who participated in [...]

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 – 24th September 2008

 
Research
Call for papers to be included in panel on ‘Is humanitarianism compatible with refugee rights?’ at the World Conference of Humanitarian Studies, February 2009, The Netherlands.
The Journal of Refugee Studies Vol 21 No 3 contains Back to Basics: The Conditions of Just Refugee Returns by Megan Bradley.
The Hungarian Helsinki Committee has published Access to Protection [...]