Student Action for Refugees

Resource Links

Get clued up on asylum issues! Follow the pointers to relevant resources…

Recent legislation:

• ICAR – UK Asylum Law & Process
• Refugee Council Briefing on 2004 Act
• Refugee Council Briefing on the New Asylum Model
• Refugee Action – the offence of being undocumented

Destitution:

• Refugee Council
• ICAR – Destitution Briefing
• Amnesty UK
• Refugee Action

Detention:

• Bail For Immigration Detainees
• Oxfam Asylum Seekers Myths & Facts
• Barbed Wire Britain
• ICAR – Dentention
• Alternatives to immigration detention of families and children A discussion paper by John Bercow MP, Lord Dubs and Evan Harris MP (pdf)

Deportation:

• National Coalition Of Anti-Deportation Campaigns
• NCADC Guide to Setting Up a Campaign (pdf)

Voluntary Returns:

• International Organisation for Migration – Voluntary Assisted Return and Reintegration Programme
• Home Office – Voluntary Assisted Return and Reintegration Programme
• No Border Network
• Indymedia UK – IOM Bribing Asylum Seekers to Return Home

Processes of claiming asylum:

• ICAR – Asylum Process
• Asylum Aid – Refugees in the UK
• Home Office – Asylum Application Fact Sheet

2006 Immigration and Asylum Act:

• ICAR – UK Legislation 2006

NASS:

• Shelter – National Asylum Support Service
• Nik Nicol, Barrister

Accessing education:

• Education Action – For Asylum Seekers & Refugees

Accessing healthcare:

• BMA – Asylum Seekers and their Health
• BMA – Access to Healthcare for Asylum Seekers
• Refugee Council – Denying Healthcare

Other information:

• UNHCR – Protecting Refugees
• Refugees International
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
• Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner
• Migrants Resource Centre
• ASAP Fact Sheets
• INCORE @ The University of Ulster
• Oxford University Refugee Studies Dept and Library
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
• Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
• OISC
• Health for Asylum Seekers and Refugees Portal