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...Refugees and asylum seekers, like everyone else, have human rights that need to be upheld by states under which jurisdiction they find themselves. Despite global efforts to tackle modern slavery, including proliferating legislation worldwide to outlaw its different forms, modern slavery is fuelled by relatively low prosecution rates and high rewards. The International...

...asylum seekers/refugees. A decade ago, the late Ray Harvey Amer, a retired registered mental health nurse, saw a need for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers to have support. Many asylum seekers were coming to Croydon as the Home Office base is there. Ray set up a group called Rainbows Across Borders, welcoming anyone who needed help and support ......

...Refugee, asylum-seeker or migrant? Timing: 15 minutes Terminology refers to the set of specialised terms and their meanings relating to a particular practice or field of study. It matters because effective communication depends on a shared understanding of specialist terms along with their underlying assumptions. However, in everyday usage, terms are often used...

...refugee' and 'asylum seeker' have a wide variety of connotations in Britain, many of them negative. This free course, Who counts as a refugee?, explores how changing social policy and terminology help to shape, and are shaped by, the experiences of people seeking asylum in the UK...The words 'refugee' and 'asylum ......

...refugees and asylum seekers more effectively. It will highlight some of the realities of asylum and immigration in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland today...This course will present an overview of the policy and law that relates to social work with people involved in the asylum and immigration system and will introduce you to the ways in which social work...

...asylum seekers, refugees and economic migrants have got lost. [A person holds a welcome sign at the Refugee Action protest, 27 July 2013 Melbourne] A pro-refugee march in Melbourne, 2013 Legally, an asylum seeker is a person who has applied for asylum in the UK and is waiting for a decision on his or her claim. A ......

...asylum seekers, refugees and the undocumented as well as the many contributions they make to the UK, then take a moment to browse these pages and share them. We all have much to learn from refugee experiences, especially at a moment when the global pandemic is disproportionately affecting minoritised and racialised groups and forcing us to reconsider who we are in...