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Journal articles on the topic "People seeking asylum"
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Stevens, Christine A. "Asylum Seeking in Australia." International Migration Review 36, no. 3 (September 2002): 864–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-7379.2002.tb00107.x.
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The rise in the number of asylum seekers in Australia presents considerable challenges to the state as they are a self-selected, demand-driven group, whose numbers, country of origin, ethnic background, and social demographic characteristics cannot be determined in advance of their arrival. People who apply for protection at the border are regarded primarily as illegal immigrants, and only secondarily as asylum seekers, and the illegality of their entry has become the primary factor in the way they are treated by the state, rather than their need for protection. Two streams of asylum seekers and two streams of refugees have been created. There are marked differences in the treatment given while claims for protection are examined and once decisions have been made in their favor. This article examines the development of asylum policy in Australia and sets the discussion within a review of the number of people who have applied for and been granted protection in recent years.
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Tenenbaum, Harriet R., Tereza Capelos, Jessica Lorimer, and Thomas Stocks. "Positive thinking elevates tolerance: Experimental effects of happiness on adolescents’ attitudes toward asylum seekers." Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 23, no. 2 (March 22, 2018): 346–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359104518755217.
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Inducing emotional reactions toward social groups can influence individuals’ political tolerance. This study examines the influence of incidental fear and happiness on adolescents’ tolerant attitudes and feelings toward young Muslim asylum seekers. In our experiment, 219 16- to 21-year-olds completed measures of prejudicial attitudes. After being induced to feel happiness, fear, or no emotion (control), participants reported their tolerant attitudes and feelings toward asylum-seeking young people. Participants assigned to the happiness condition demonstrated more tolerant attitudes toward asylum-seeking young people than did those assigned to the fear or control conditions. Participants in the control condition did not differ from participants in the fear condition. The participants in the happiness condition also had more positive feelings toward asylum-seeking young people than did participants in the control condition. The findings suggest that one way to increase positive attitudes toward asylum-seeking young people is to improve general emotional state.
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Talley, N., E. Ofner, and A. Lynch. "Statement on the health of people seeking asylum." Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 49, no. 12 (December 2013): 989–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpc.12434.
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Fullerton, Christine. "A meta-ethnographic review of people's experience of seeking asylum in the UK and its impact on psychological and social wellbeing." BJPsych Open 7, S1 (June 2021): S250. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2021.670.
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AimsEthnographic accounts of the everyday, lived experience of seeking asylum have been incredibly useful for shedding light on how the asylum process and UK policy influences health and wellbeing. However, there lacks an analysis which pulls together these voices and establishes common themes. This review aims to address this gap by synthesising published literature related to people's experience of seeking asylum in the UK and its impact on their psychological and social wellbeing.MethodA systematic literature search was conducted in SCOPUS, PubMed and PsychINFO. Ten qualitative studies, capturing the accounts of over 190 people, were included in the review. The steps of meta-ethnography were used to synthesise the experiences of seeking asylum. Overarching themes which linked the studies were conceptualised and a framework of ‘constructs’ used to organise verbatim narratives and researcher interpretations from each study by theme and sub-theme. Finally, the constructs from each theme were translated to produce an overarching line of argument to the research.ResultFive key themes illustrating the experience of seeking asylum in the UK were identified. These were: a need for safety; distress; resilience and coping; sources of support; and looking to the future. The line of argument indicated that people seeking asylum in the UK experience a need for safety, high levels of psychological distress and social isolation, yet throughout exhibit extreme resilience. Analysis highlighted the need for increased governmental support and legal empowerment during the asylum process.ConclusionThis synthesis illustrates the widespread impact, both direct and indirect, of a culture of deterrence and disbelief within the Home Office on the psychological and social wellbeing of people desperately seeking refuge and compassion. To achieve equitable and optimum health for those seeking asylum in the UK, we must urgently move away from the hostile environment which has been created. As we develop a more holistic and expanded notion of health, the concept of wellbeing provides a person-centred framework for understanding how the social context can result in certain outcomes. The global public health response to the health-needs of people seeking asylum, and the wider migrant community, must be informed by lived experiences if they are to create interventions which have benefit.
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Canning, Victoria. "Degradation by design: women and asylum in northern Europe." Race & Class 61, no. 1 (May 23, 2019): 46–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306396819850986.
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The increasingly punitive measures taken by European governments to deter people seeking asylum, including increased use of detention, internalised controls, reductions in in-country rights and procedural safeguards, have a hugely damaging impact on the lives and wellbeing of women survivors of torture, sexual and domestic violence. This article, based on a two-year research project examining Britain, Denmark and Sweden, involved more than 500 hours speaking with people seeking asylum, as well as interviews with practitioners. It highlights among other issues non-adherence to the Istanbul Convention (for Denmark and Sweden, who have ratified it); non-application of gender guidelines; and significant wholesale violations of refugee rights. It demonstrates some of the ways in which increasingly harsh policies impact on women seeking asylum and highlights the experiences relayed by some who are affected: those stuck in asylum systems and practitioners seeking to provide support. Indeed, it indicates that women seeking asylum in Britain, Denmark and Sweden are made more vulnerable to violence due to the actions or inactions of the states that are supposed to protect them.
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Green, Belinda A. "Drowning In Neoliberal Lies: State Responses Towards People Seeking Asylum." British Journal of Social Work 50, no. 3 (June 10, 2019): 908–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz070.
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Abstract This article argues that further enhancement of critical social work education and practice is needed to counter politicised and restrictive policies towards people seeking asylum in advanced globalised market economies. This means social workers giving more emphasis and prominence to the role of neoliberalism rather than solely focusing on the adverse moral and mental health impacts of state responses. Drawing on current debates and practices within critical social work and seven years’ experience in the Australian refugee sector, this article will demonstrate the punitive and deterrent configurations adopted by states like Australia to respond to people seeking asylum. The article then highlights the importance of social workers critically analysing historicised discourses which normalise such people as ‘dangerous’, ‘illegitimate’, ‘othered’ and a ‘burden’. Further interrogation of the social and cultural logic(s) of neoliberalism which serve to justify the former discourses will also be included. Finally, reflections on a range of strategies and solutions will be presented for critical social work educators and practitioners to resist and subvert neoliberalism and to secure better outcomes for people seeking asylum in Australia and elsewhere.
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Sivunen, Nina. "An Ethnographic Study of Deaf Refugees Seeking Asylum in Finland." Societies 9, no. 1 (January 9, 2019): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc9010002.
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Deaf asylum seekers are a marginalized group of people in refugee and forced migration studies. The aim of this paper is to explore and highlight the experiences of deaf asylum seekers in the asylum procedure in Finland. The data come from linguistic ethnographic methods, interviews, and ethnographic observation with 10 deaf asylum seekers. While living in the reception centers, the study participants have faced a range of linguistic and social challenges. The findings show that language barriers appeared from day one after the participants’ arrival in Finland. The investment and initiatives of deaf volunteers played a crucial role for deaf asylum seekers in their access to and participation in Finnish society. In addition, receiving formal Finnish sign language instruction had a positive effect on their well-being. Drawing on content analysis of deaf asylum seekers’ experiences, I argue that greater awareness, recognition, and support of deaf asylum seekers are needed in the Finnish asylum system. I conclude this paper with a discussion of and suggestions for a better asylum system for deaf individuals.
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Connolly, Helen. "Seeing the Relationship between the uncrc and the Asylum System through the Eyes of Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children and Young People." International Journal of Children’s Rights 23, no. 1 (March 28, 2015): 52–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02301001.
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The rights and experiences of unaccompanied asylum seeking children living in industrialised nations are rarely seen from the perspectives of children themselves. This paper takes a narrative based approach to report on the lives 29 unaccompanied asylum seeking young people in the uk. The research from which this paper emerges explored the ways in which they thought the rights of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) were or were not being realised on their behalf. It highlights the significance of making the promises that are held within the uncrc into viable strategies of protection for unaccompanied asylum seeking children as they search for a new place to belong to and a new place that belongs in them.
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Boyd, Bill, Emma Doolan, and Ruth Henderson. "Seeking Asylum—Holding Patterns: The 2020 Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize." Coolabah, no. 29 (February 28, 2021): 47–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1344/co20212947-72.
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Poetry provides valuable and insightful ways to explore and record social and political experiences and engagements. The plight of refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia is well known. Community groups such as the Ballina Region for Refugees provide support to refugees and asylum seekers both in Australia and offshore. To help raise awareness and validate the experience of refugees and asylum seekers, the Ballina Region for Refugees runs an annual Poetry Prize. The 2020 Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize theme was Seeking Asylum—Holding Patterns. This article presents the winning and highly commended poems, along with poems by refugee and asylum seeker poets. Poems from both insider witnesses – refugees and asylum seekers – and outsider witnesses – poets who seek to express an empathy with the plight of refugees and asylum seekers – have contributed to this collection. From haunting statements of human dissolution that should strike fear into anyone’s heart, through glimpses of hope, the poems explore the trails of asylum seeking and the dysfunctionality of the aftermath.
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Bazerghi, Chantelle. "Right to food for people seeking asylum: A statement from the asylum seeker resource centre." Integrative Food, Nutrition and Metabolism 3, no. 3 (2016): 328–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.15761/ifnm.1000153.
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Iqbal, Hannah. "Precarious journeys : exploring the stories of young people seeking asylum." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/91178/.
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This thesis examines the stories that young people tell about becoming refugees and seeking asylum. It is a qualitative study based on 42 single narrative interviews, conducted in schools, public libraries and advocacy settings. The participants originated from 19 countries and ranged in age from 12-23 years, with four participants over 18 years. Stories represent a significant resource for asylum seekers, since the process of seeking asylum relies heavily on providing narrative testimony. Whilst there is an established field of literature focusing on the experiences of young refugees, little attention has been paid to the storied aspects of their lives. Beyond this, there are also significant gaps regarding young refugees’ journey experiences and the role of time in shaping their lives. This research seeks to fill these gaps by providing an in-depth study of the stories that young refugees tell and the ways in which themes of journeys and time feature in their accounts. The findings of this thesis are divided across three substantive themes, journeys, stories and time. Firstly, by examining participants’ accounts of being uprooted and in transit, the analysis demonstrates how migration journeys can be highly significant experiences for young refugees, shaping their lives long after their physical journey has ended. Secondly, this thesis highlights the significance of stories within the asylum system and the ways in which young people’s narrative and embodied accounts can come under scrutiny. Finally, this thesis points to the ways in which young refugees can experience a sense of being governed through time as they seek asylum. This thesis has sought to provide insights for both academic and policy audiences about the multiple aspects of insecurity that young refugees negotiate. Beyond this, the findings of this thesis demonstrate the creative and adaptive ways in which young people seek to forge more secure futures within contexts of displacement.
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Kohli, Ravi K. S. "Social work with unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410498.
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This study concerns social work practice with unaccompanied asylum seeking and refugee young people looked after by local authority Social Services Departments under s20 of the Children Act 1989. It examines the types of assistance offered by social workers that aids resettlement. Twenty nine social workers in four authorities were interviewed in relation to thirty four young people in their care. Each was asked to tell the story of one young person they were working with. The main aim of the study was to develop a detailed understanding of resettlement practice by social workers that addressed the young people's needs for practical assistance, emotional support, and companionship over a period of time, given their solitary circumstances after arrival in the United Kingdom. The interviews revealed that the social workers were guided by the young people's needs and capabilities towards three types of helping. The first, described in this study as 'humanitarian' practice, focused on practical 'outer world' assistance. The second, described as 'witnessing', focused on 'inner world' turbulence, helping the young people to manage uncertainty and distress, related primarily to past events. The third, described as 'confederacy' focused on the development of a protective friendship with the young people that was durable, long lasting and open ended. Each of these three types of helping appeared to be carried out in a particular 'domain' of practice, referred to in this study as the domains of cohesion, connection, and coherence. Each domain and each type of practice was considered by the respondents to be valuable. In addition to their practice being guided by the young people's needs and capabilities, many of them navigated across domains and between the different types of helping using their personal and professional experiences and their local cultures of working and learning.
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Tadesse, M. "Unaccompanied asylum seeking young people (UASYP) from the Horn of Africa." Thesis, University of Essex, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.701644.
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This thesis describes a qualitative pilot research study that examines the experiences of UASYP from the Horn of Africa exiled in the UK. It focuses on the issues of adolescence and identity, taking a psychosocial perspective. There is currently limited information concerning the identity formation and psychosocial development of these particular groups of asylum seekers, who are forced to leave their countries alone largely due to conflicts and persecution. They represent a specific section of the refugee population, being that they are forced to leave their home and families to experience the transition from childhood to adulthood in exile without their families. Once resettled in the UK their multiple needs are then met by local authorities within the context of fostering or semi-independent care. Data was gathered from multiple sources: (i) semi-structured interviews with 15 UASYP aged between 15 in 17 (ii) analysis of existing research and (iii) analysis of relevant documents. The psychosocial wellbeing and identity construction of the UASYP was investigated through the application of an overarching theoretical framework. This framework combined the traditional psychological theories of adolescence and identity development along with Erikson's psychosocial theory and Bronfenbrenner's bio-ecological model. The aim was to gain an insight into risk factors and positive influences by applying Berkowitz's model and Papadopoulos's six phases of The Refugee Trauma and The Trauma Grid (AAD). My findings confirmed resilience to be the outcome of the multiplicity of positive relationships within different settings, from the micro to macro systems wherein, primitive and protective roles are encountered and relationships established with the UASYP's a) supervising social workers, b) peers/ school/ teachers c) foster carers/ key workers and d) community affiliates. Findings revealed that the UASYP selected unique elements from their background history, language, religion and culture, which are then employed as positive factors to influence and to develop buffers to deal with the adversities of separation, loss and racism. These were transformed as catalysts by the UASYP to arouse and encourage different levels of consciousness for the retrieval of these unique elements. These are employed to counteract any negative influences. The findings indicate that the UASYP made conscious decisions to move away from their initial feelings of rejection and being ostracised amongst different groups in their new settings. They did so until they reached the point where they felt motivated and able to counteract and reinforce their own preferences, not only in how they wanted to define themselves, but also to identify where they felt that they belonged in exile. This pilot study revealed that the UASYP, preferred to use their self-assigned title or category. Thus, in this context, it is their old ethnicity, which is seemingly employed to define their new identity in exile. Findings also revealed that the UASYP are separated from the majority and minority cultures of their home country during their pre-migration phase and repositioned in their new settings where they experience changes in their socio-political contexts. During the post-migration period, the UASYP constructed their ethnic identity within their new socio-political contexts, which encouraged them to choose a more dispassionate or rather impartial positioning. This pilot study challenges the existing notion, which has suggested that individuals within a multicultural society gravitate towards the majority culture, for refugee status is likely to condemn the UASYP to a life of hostility, confusion and mental ill health. The findings confirmed that despite the challenges, the containment of the UASYP within the ecological environment of the care system provides them with the necessary support, which benefits their psychosocial development and identity construction. The findings justify the conclusion that the formation of their ethnic identity is the combination of their historical, cultural and ethnic as well as religious backgrounds, and that these interface with the cultural climate of the UK society. The data from this pilot study can now be utilised to inform and influence practitioners, policy makers and researchers and will provide a useful resource for further research in a number of related fields.
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McCarthy, Holly. "Constructed Realities : Framing an inclusive, multicultural Australia’s exclusion of people seeking asylum." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för samhälls- och välfärdsstudier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-158718.
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Since 2001, Australia’s increasingly securitised and exclusionary asylum policy has been legitimated through a damaging discourse surrounding people who seek asylum. This discourse, reinforced by successive Australian Prime Ministers, has been instrumental in shaping policies which have a devastating human impact. While political elites across the West are distancing themselves from a discourse of inclusive multiculturalism, Australia continues to celebrate its multicultural success despite the ongoing tension between a rhetoric of inclusion and one justifying exclusion. Since discourse is both productive and reflective of the social world, shaping discourse can be understood as a means to shape reality. This thesis explores how discourse is constructed and reproduced through framing; a discursive practice that influences how certain issues are understood. The texts analysed are those in which Australian Prime Ministers and senior political figures defend policies of exclusion against people who seek asylum by boat as part of a broader policy vision for a Safe, Secure & Free Australia. In order to contrast the frames, narratives and discourses associated with exclusion, communications promoting the policy vision of an inclusive Multicultural Australia have also been analysed. The frames identified in the material reproduce particular narratives which help to maintain the hegemonic position of discourses which present Australia as a humanitarian, welcoming and inclusive multicultural society and situate people who seek asylum by boat as illegal, seeking an unfair advantage, and as a threat to national security. By identifying frames that consistently appear in the messaging of Australian political elites, we can understand how certain narratives have come to be accepted as truth.
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Pannett, Margaret Lorraine. "Making a livable life in Manchester: doing justice to people seeking asylum." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/making-a-livable-life-in-manchester-doing-justice-to-people-seeking-asylum(308f7f3d-ee5a-4ea1-93d3-69b600f0732e).html.
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This thesis explores how people struggle to make livable lives in the conditions of existence of seeking asylum in the UK. The study is based on ethnographic research, conversations and participant observation, with people seeking asylum in Manchester. Grounding the research in their narratives is a contribution to decolonizing knowledge and doing justice to the sentience of people who are marginalized and pathologized. The narratives are brought into dialogue with feminist and decolonial philosophy and political theory, and with empirical studies of 'refugeedom' from a number of disciplines, to produce a new field of connection from which to map the terrain involved in theorizing livability. While the whole thesis seeks to respond to the narratives, there is a detailed focus on three dimensions which participants emphasize as crucial to livability: settlement in Manchester; the prohibition of employment; the asylum application procedures. These are moments in which livability is claimed as both ethics and practice. From the perspective of the narratives and the ethics which permeate them, livability opens up into questions of recognition, social justice and care. People claim commonality: recognition as human, equality and inclusion in social goods, and care in public settings. These are the practical and ethical supports of livability. The narratives point also towards critiques of 'refugeedom', the policies and practices that form the discursive and material conditions within which people seeking asylum attempt to make livable lives.
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Idowu-Eberendu, Ibidunni Francisca. "Childhood and asylum : the legal protection of unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people in the United Kingdom asylum and social care systems." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.675926.
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The main theme of the thesis is the legal protection of unaccompanied asylum-seeking and separated children in the United Kingdom asylum and social care systems. The thesis investigates if the standard of legal protection conferred upon unaccompanied asylum-seeking and separated children in the United Kingdom asylum and social care systems including durable solutions meet international law standards, protect and safeguard separated children and young persons. The research achieves this by carrying out documentary research of pertinent literature, public documents, international human rights, refugee rights and child rights treaties; and United Kingdom domestic legislation. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted to generate data on the inner workings of legal protection in the United Kingdom, with specific focus on the childhood experiences of asylum and the impact of legal protection or its lack on the childhood experiences of unaccompanied children in the United Kingdom. The research involved interviews with former separated children, experts and professionals who implement the legal protection regime and policies. The thesis analyses the international treaty benchmark standards and norms for the legal protection of unaccompanied asylum seeking and separated children and examines the compliance of the UK with their legal provisions. It establishes the domestic legal standards of legal protection, and practice of child asylum determination and social care. The thesis argues for the international legal protection of unaccompanied and separated children based on a holistic system of international protection found in key international treaties chiefly the international bill of rights, the refugee Convention, the child rights Convention and the subsidiary protection framework in Europe. This results in obligations on the part of State Parties to the above international and regional treaties in this case the United Kingdom. It argues that the asylum and social care systems are equally responsible for the international legal protection obligations and should attain the objective through a best interest determination procedure that secures legal protection that is durable, while maintaining the human dignity of the unaccompanied child throughout the entire process.
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McDonald, Kelly. "The social networks of unaccompanied asylum seeking young people in the transition to adulthood." Thesis, University of York, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/17520/.
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The number of children seeking asylum alone in the UK and across Europe is increasing. Previous research has focused on the support unaccompanied children receive within children’s services, and highlighted their vulnerability and isolation. Limited research exists that considers their transition to adulthood, at which time the process of leaving local authority care may coincide with a need to re-engage with the immigration system in an attempt to achieve the right to remain in the UK permanently. This thesis therefore focuses on unaccompanied young people as they transition to adulthood. Focusing holistically on the social networks of the young people, this study is concerned with understanding the process of transition and its impact on the social worlds of the young people. Taking the life-course approach as iits conceptual framework, issues of time, space, structure and agency are emphasised. Based on interviews with both unaccompanied young people and professionals (accessed through statutory and voluntary services in one large urban local authority in the north of England) the findings suggest that unaccompanied young people’s social networks are active, complex and diverse, yet may be negatively impacted by uncertain and temporary immigration statuses. The findings illuminate previously unexplored aspects of unaccompanied young people’s social networks, including their continued embeddedness in multi-sited family networks. The findings also challenge current constructions of unaccompanied young people as vulnerable recipients of support, and repositions them as young people who provide care and support to others as they begin to develop adult identities.
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Allan, Katie. "A grounded theory of the experience of destitution among people seeking asylum in the UK." Thesis, University of East London, 2012. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3028/.
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Children and young people’s right to participate in the decisions made about them is enshrined in national and international Acts and Charters: the Children Act 1989 and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 1999. This right takes on particular importance for Looked After Children and Young People, a frequently excluded group, as it concerns major decisions about their lives. This study sought to explore the views of 10 young people between the ages of 16 and 19 in looked after care on decision making in review and planning meetings. A critical realist grounded theory was deemed to be the most appropriate methodology for the research, partly because it allowed interviews and research directions to be led by the participants. Interviews and analyses yielded interesting and novel results but also reflected many themes that have been found in previous research. The core category generated by the research was the ongoing process of Pushing and Decision Making. The main categories that comprise that core category were: Becoming Active and Involved, Wanting more than just ‘Good Enough’, Making Oneself Heard and Coming of Age in the Care System. The core and four main categories are discussed with reference to other research into participation and decision making, and in terms of the young people getting their needs met within the context of the care system and corporate parenting.
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Khan, Anoushka. "Exploring the social capital and psychological well-being of asylum seeking people : an interpretative phenomenological analysis." Thesis, University of East London, 2008. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3774/.
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Psychological research on the experiences of asylum seeking people has been predominantly focused on trauma and psychopathology, locating the distress within the individual. Exploring contextual factors may be a more appropriate approach to understanding distress generally, but particularly for asylum seeking people struggling with distinctive social-political issues. Theory and research on social capital has provided one particular understanding of the way in which social factors, such as social networks and features of social engagement, can influence psychological health and wellbeing. The aims of this study were to explore the social contexts of asylum seeking people, and more specifically social capital, in relation to psychological health. Nine Eritrean asylum seeking people were interviewed on their lived experience in the UK; seven of these interviews were carried out with an interpreter. Interpretative phenomenological analysis was used in the exploration of shared themes in the accounts of participants. Six superordinate themes were outlined in the analyses. The themes encompass the impact of overarching social and legal restrictions on power in day-to-day lives and social experiences of the participants. Their lived experience in the UK is influenced by various social disadvantages that 'asylum-seeker' status places them in, factors related to positive well-being, known to function as buffers against psychological stress, such as a lack of access to marital and family relationships, lack of employment and financial resources for their social welfare, and other civic freedoms and rights. However their capacity to develop and access collective resources, such as social capital, and personal resources, including faith and spirituality, were also apparent from this study. Psychological approaches to support and intervention that are able to integrate social, material and political factors, are highlighted. Reflecting on the role of psychologists in relation to human rights abuses and social injustice is also suggested.
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Synder, Susanna Jane. "Ecologies of encounter : a practical theological exploration of church engagement with people seeking asylum in the UK." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532288.
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Asylum seeking provokes strong responses in political and social discourse. Churches in the UK are supporting those seeking asylum in a variety of ways. There has been little critical theological reflection on these practices to date and this thesis presents fragments to fill this gap. Situated methodologically within the field of Practical Theology, it explores the encounters between churches and people seeking asylum by creating a new interdisciplinary conversation between Forced Migration Studies, Biblical Studies and Theology. Asylum seeking in the UK is set within the context of the global migration-asylum nexus and a pervasive 'ecology of fear' is recognised as a significant underlying reason for the difficulties experienced by asylum seekers. Two distinct strands of biblical response to strangers are then identified. The first, exemplified in Ezra-Nehemiah, represents responses made from within an ecology of fear. The second, exemplified in Ruth and the pericope of the Syro-Phoenician Woman, represents responses made from within an alternative 'ecology of faith'. This thesis argues that understanding the ecology of fear and performing an ecology of faith challenges churches to continue, deepen and alter a range of their current practices.
Books on the topic "People seeking asylum"
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Jennifer, Harris, and Joseph Rowntree Foundation, eds. Disabled people in refugee and asylum seeking communities. Bristol: Policy Press, 2002.
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Wade, Jim, John Simmonds, and Ala Sirriyeh. Fostering Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Young People. British Association for Adoption & Fostering (BAAF), 2012.
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Andrew, Bradstock, Trotman Arlington, and Churches Together in Britain and Ireland., eds. Asylum voices: Experiences of people seeking asylum in the United Kingdom. London: Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, 2003.
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Temple, Bogusia, Rhetta Moran, Nadia Fayas, Sysay Haboninana, Frank McCabe, Zeinab Mohamed, Aziz Noori, and Nasima Rahman. Learning to Live Together: Developing Communities with Dispersed Refugee People Seeking Asylum. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2005.
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Emotional Well-Being of Unaccompanied Young People Seeking Asylum in the Uk. British Association for Adoption & Fostering (BAAF), 2008.
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Babar, Zahra, ed. Mobility and Forced Displacement in the Middle East. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197531365.001.0001.
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The Middle East is currently facing one of its most critical migration challenges, as the region has become the simultaneous producer of and host to the world’s largest population of displaced people. As a result of ongoing conflicts, particularly in Syria, Libya, Iraq, and Yemen, there have been sharp increases in the numbers of the internally displaced, forced migrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers. Despite the burgeoning degree of policy interest and heated public discourse on the impact of these refugees on European states, most of these dislocated populations are living within the borders of the Middle East.This volume is the outcome of a grants-based project to support in-depth, empirically based examinations of mobility and displacement within the Middle East and to gain a fuller understanding of the forms, causes, dimensions, patterns, and effects of migration, both voluntary and forced. As the following chapters in this volume will demonstrate, through this series of case studies we are seeking to broaden our understanding of the population movements that are seen in the Middle East and hope to emphasize that regional migration is a complex, widespread, and persistent phenomenon in the region, best studied from a multidisciplinary perspective. This volume explores the conditions, causes, and consequences of ongoing population displacements in the Middle East. In doing so, it also serves as a lens to better understand some of the profound social, economic, and political dynamics at work across the region.
Book chapters on the topic "People seeking asylum"
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Raval, Hitesh. "Therapeutic Encounters between Young People, Bilingual Co-workers and Practitioners." In Working with Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children, 61–76. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-05834-8_5.
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Dixon, Jo, and Jim Wade. "Leaving ‘Care’? Transition Planning and Support for Unaccompanied Young People." In Working with Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children, 125–40. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-05834-8_9.
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Kohli, Ravi K. S. "Social work with unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people." In Social work with unaccompanied asylum seeking children, 47–74. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-62575-4_3.
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Kohli, Ravi K. S. "The meaning of resettlement for unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young people." In Social work with unaccompanied asylum seeking children, 27–46. London: Macmillan Education UK, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-62575-4_2.
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McMahon, Gráinne, and Rhetta Moran. "Young people seeking asylum:." In Young People’s Participation, 195–214. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1h0p56r.17.
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"Working with people seeking asylum." In Case Formulation in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 340–69. Routledge, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315694191-21.
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Kohli, Ravi K. S., and Helen Connolly. "Transitions for young people seeking asylum." In Managing transitionsSupport for individuals at key points of change, 73–92. Policy Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781847421883.003.0006.
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"Asylum seeking, refugee and homeless young people and families." In Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 357–60. CRC Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b13357-68.
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Vostanis, Panos. "Asylum-seeking and refugee children: a step beyond conventional interventions." In Helping Children and Young People Who Experience Trauma, 194–209. CRC Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9780429091353-19.
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Chase, Elaine, and June Statham. "Families left behind: unaccompanied young people seeking asylum in the UK." In Family troubles?, 223–31. Policy Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447304432.003.0018.
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Kelly, Luke. Threats to Civilian Aviation Since 1975. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.019.
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This literature review finds that the main malicious threats to civilian aviation since 1975 are attacks by terrorist groups, deliberate or accidental damage arising from conflicts, and incidents caused by people who work for airlines or airports. While the sector has responded to hijackings and bombings with increasing security since the 1970s, actors seeking to attack aircraft have modified their tactics, and new threats such as liquid explosives and cyber attacks have emerged. Civilian aviation has seen relatively fewer accidents and deaths over the years, but threats remain. The review focuses on malicious threats to civilian aviation. It, therefore, excludes weather events or accidents. The first section lists major malicious threats to civilian aviation since 1975. It includes both actual and planned events (e.g. hijackings that were prevented) that are recorded in open-source documents. Each threat is listed alongside information on its cause (e.g. terrorism, state actions, crime), the context in which it occurred (broader factors shaping the risk including geography, regime type, technology), and its impact (on passengers, policy, security, economic). The second section discusses some of the trends in threats to aviation. Motives for malicious threats include terrorism, crime, asylum-seeking, and insider attacks by aggrieved or mentally ill airline staff. Hijacking has been the most common form of threat, although bombing or suicide attacks have killed more people. Threats may also take the form of accidental attacks on civilian planes misidentified as threats in conflict zones. Experts suggest that growing threats are cyberattacks and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, although neither has yet caused a major incident.