Current issues of UK asylum law and policy /

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Imprint:Aldershot, England : Ashgate Dartmouth, 1998.
Description:xxvii, 371 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3455039
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Other authors / contributors:Nicholson, Frances.
Twomey, Patrick M.
ISBN:1840141808
Table of Contents:
  • List of Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Reported Case Law
  • UK-Based Organisations Working on Refugee and Asylum Issues
  • Contributors' Biographical Details
  • Introduction
  • Section I. Law, Policy and the Determination Process
  • 1. The Case of UK Asylum Law and Policy: Lessons from History?
  • 2. Political Representations of Geography and Place in the Introduction of the UK Asylum and Immigration Act (1996)
  • 3. A Case of Ministers Behaving Badly: The Asylum and Immigration Act 1996
  • 4. The Designation of "Safe" Countries and Individual Assessment of Asylum Claims
  • 5. The "Internal Flight Alternative" (IFA) Test and the Concept of Protection
  • 6. Sexual Orientation and Refugee Claims Based on "Membership of a Particular Social Group" Under the 1951 Refugee Convention
  • 7. Problems in Medical Report Writing for Asylum Seekers
  • 8. Working With the Asylum Regime: an Adjudicator's Perspective
  • 9. Researching "The Risks of Getting it Wrong"
  • 10. Protection and Process: Towards Fair and Effective Asylum Determination Procedures
  • 11. Taking Human Rights Seriously in the Asylum Context? A Perspective on the Development of Law and Policy
  • 12. Entitlement to Protection: A Human Rights-based Approach to Refugee Protection in the United Kingdom
  • Section II. Beyond the Determination Process
  • 13. Health Screening for Newly-arrived Asylum Seekers and their Access to NHS Provision
  • 14. The Mental Health Needs of Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Key Issues in Research and Service Development
  • 15. The Needs of Young Male Refugees in London with Particular Reference to Education and Training
  • 16. Parent-child Communication Barriers and Mother-tongue Education for Vietnamese Children in London
  • 17. Asylum, Employer Sanctions and Race
  • 18. Asylum Seekers' Rights to Housing: New Recipients of the Old Poor Law