asylum seekers

How to support refugees’ and asylum seekers’ health and wellbeing

By Jo Biglin Filed Under: All posts, Growth and Inclusion, Health and Care, Health and Social Care, Urban Posted: August 10, 2020

Spending time in an allotment was permitted as a form of exercise throughout the COVID-19 lockdown, and as it eases, provides a physically distanced way of socialising. In this blog, researcher Jo Biglin outlines the vital role these spaces play in the mental and physical wellbeing of asylum seekers and refugees, and suggests policies to […]

Is primary healthcare a hostile environment? The barriers facing asylum seekers and refugees accessing general practitioners in the UK

By Louise Tomkow and Rebecca Farrington Filed Under: Health and Social Care Posted: February 18, 2019

Dr Louise Tomkow is a Geriatric Registrar in the Northwest deanery and a PhD researcher exploring migration and health at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, The University of Manchester. Dr Rebecca Farrington is a General Practitioner working with asylum seekers and refugees and a Senior Clinical Lecturer at The University of Manchester. In their blog they highlight how: […]

Our system for housing asylum seekers is failing, we must do better

By Jonathan Darling Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Urban Posted: February 1, 2017

In light of this week’s report into Asylum Accommodation by the Home Affairs Select Committee, Dr Jonathan Darling, who submitted expert evidence to the inquiry, responds to its findings and suggests a way forwards. Asylum accommodation is currently provided through six regional contracts with three private providers There have been reports of substandard and inappropriate […]

A shared Britain – refugee policy for 2017

By Jonathan Darling and Gulwali Passarlay Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Europe, Urban Posted: January 10, 2017

To start the year, Dr Jonathan Darling, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography specialising in the politics and ethics of forced migration, and Gulwali Passarlay, Afghan refugee, politics graduate and author of ‘The Lightless Sky’, reflect on how government might support asylum seekers and refugees in 2017. Together, they discuss the challenges of the last year […]

The use of hotels is a sign of failing asylum accommodation policy

By Jonathan Darling Filed Under: All posts, Ethnicity Posted: March 24, 2016

With news of the hotel chain Britannia accommodating up to 300 asylum seekers in a hotel in Manchester, Dr Jonathan Darling argues that this reliance on hotels demonstrates a failing asylum accommodation policy. The hotel, in Northenden, has been used by the private contractor Serco to house asylum seekers as part of the UK’s dispersal […]

What role might cities play in UK asylum policy?

By Jonathan Darling Filed Under: All posts, Devo, Featured, Urban Posted: March 30, 2015

Government policy towards asylum seekers is being challenged. Dr Jonathan Darling asks if this should become part of the debate on the devolution of powers. Disagreements between local authorities and the Home Office over asylum seeker dispersal numbers and arrangements have a long-standing history in Britain. Yet recently they have garnered greater media attention due […]

Locked up in Limbo

By Claire Fox Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: March 10, 2015

Indefinite detention of asylum seekers and refugees in the ‘abusive’ Immigration Removal Centres such as Yarl’s Wood is a scandal and a stain on the UK’s reputation, argues Dr Claire Fox. The UK’s treatment of asylum seekers and refugees came under severe, critical, scrutiny last week. A report was published by two All Party Parliamentary […]

What Kind of Immigration Do We Want?

By Ken Clark Filed Under: Featured, Whitehall Watch Posted: October 31, 2013

It was recently proposed that countries with high immigration could specify the ideal mix of people and cultures allowed across their borders. It is a thesis that has, unsurprisingly, split opinion and caused much debate. But whatever one thinks of this approach, the type and volume of immigrants the UK electorate would prefer is a […]

How to support refugees’ and asylum seekers’ health and wellbeing

Our system for housing asylum seekers is failing, we must do better

A shared Britain – refugee policy for 2017

The use of hotels is a sign of failing asylum accommodation policy

What role might cities play in UK asylum policy?

Locked up in Limbo

What Kind of Immigration Do We Want?

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