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Meeting Basic Needs? Forced Migrants and Welfare

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 October 2005

Peter Dwyer  and
David Brown
Peter Dwyer
Affiliation:
School of Sociology/Social Policy, University of Leeds E-mail: [email protected]
David Brown
Affiliation:
Refugee Council
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Abstract

As the number of forced migrants entering Britain has risen, increasingly restrictive immigration and asylum policy has been introduced. Simultaneously, successive governments have sought to limit the welfare entitlements of forced migrants. Drawing on two sets of semi-structured qualitative interviews, with migrants and key respondents providing welfare services, this paper considers the adequacy of welfare provisions in relation to the financial and housing needs of four different groups of forced migrants i.e. refugees, asylum seekers, those with humanitarian protection status and failed asylum seekers/‘overstayers’. There is strong evidence to suggest that statutory provisions are failing to meet the basic financial and housing needs of many forced migrants.

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Social Policy and Society , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , October 2005 , pp. 369 - 380
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Cambridge University Press 2005

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