Research
The Refugee Women’s Resource Project (RWRP) has published Relocation, Relocation: the impact of internal relocation on women asylum seekers by Claire Bennett.
The International Journal of Refugee Law Vol 20 No 4 features an article by Robert Thomas on Consistency in Asylum Adjudication: Country Guidance and the Asylum Process in the United Kingdom
New Human Rights [...]
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Accommodate – better together is a summary of the final evaluation report of ‘Accommodate’ – a refugee housing partnership project led by the Housing Associations’ Charitable Trust (hact).
Mental healthcare of asylum-seekers and refugees by Helen McColl, Kwame McKenzie, and Kamaldeep Bhui in Advanced Psychiatric Treatment Vol 14 No 6.
Politics of Exception and Unease: Immigration, Asylum [...]
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Research
Trafficking in Persons in Afghanistan is a new report from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on trafficking both in and from Afghanistan, based on research conducted last year in Kabul and nine border provinces.
Moving Up Together is a new study by the Institute of Public Policy Research examining ‘why some migrant and minority communities [...]
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Research
Refugee Schooling: how the education needs of certain vulnerable groups are not being met by Dorling, K. in ChildRIGHT No 250.
Conflict and the Refugee Experience: Flight, exile and repatriation in the Horn of Africa, by Assefaw Bariagaber Earney, C. and Between vulnerability and assertiveness: Negotiating resettlement in Kakuma refugee camp, by Kenya Jansen, B. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Research
Amnesty International has published Scotland’s Slaves: An Amnesty International briefing on trafficking in Scotland
Soldiers, Migrants and Citizens – the Nepalese in Britain is a new report by Jessica Mai Sims in the Runnymede Community Studies series.
Beyond the 21st Century Hadrian’s Wall: the Externalisation of Immigration and Border Control Policy by the European Union by Frigo, [...]
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Research
A summary has been published on research by the Institute of Education into the emotional wellbeing and mental health of unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK.
Policy and law
The European Parliament has adopted a report critiquing the Dublin system and will propose amendments to the Dublin Regulation later this year.
Events
The Electronic Immigration Network is [...]
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Research
Immigration and social cohesion in the UK: the rhythms and realities of everyday life is a wide-ranging new study by Mary Hickman, Helen Crowley and Nick Mai, published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Responses to the publication of the 2007 asylum statistics continue to appear, including from the press in Birmingham and Leeds in the light [...]
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