Meeting Basic Needs? Forced Migrants and Welfare

Peter James Dwyer, David J. Brown

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)369-380
Number of pages12
JournalSocial Policy and Society
Volume4
Issue number4
Early online date4 Oct 2005
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2005

Keywords

  • MIGRANTS
  • WELFARE

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