Dear all,

Following my request at the start of the week for information
on work connected to asylum seekers and UK policy, I have 
had some excellent responses. 
THANK YOU VERY MUCH everyone; it has really helped!

Below is a general amalgam of the sources sent to me
(in no particular order)>

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-The Refugee Council, Joint Council for the Welfare of 
Immigrants, Amnesty etc. will have up to date information 
packs (and often pamphlets outlining changes to the 
regulations. A good start would be to ring these up and ask 
for some information to be sent out to you.

-Another useful start would be to get to a library that
stocks the Journal of Refugee Studies (JRS) - 
there are always interesting articles in this journal.

-Articles that spring to mind:
Alice Bloch - Carrying out a survey of Refugees - 
not exactly cutting edge research but it is based in Newham
in JRS 12 4 1999

Osten Whalbeck - on kurdish community groups and local 
authority policies in the UK JRS 11 1998

Vaughan Robinson JRS 11 1998 - 
discusses links between communities and local authorities

Nira Yuval-Davis - in Femminism and Psychology 1994 -  
a good discussion of the problems with Uks 'community' policies.

-An example of such policies informing research is in;
Carey-Wood, J. Duke, K. Karn, V. and Marshall, T. (1995) 
The settlement of refugees in Britain, Home Office Research 
Study #141. HMSO : London.

-Another useful source is to signup to migration-news a 
free email subscirption service;
-it provides a monthly news digest about stories to do with 
asylum and immigration. If you wish to subscribe, send your 
email address to: Migration News 
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-Also useful (especially) for changes to asylum and immigration 
welfare changes is in the International jounral of refugee 
law -see especially;
Cholewinski, R. (1998) Enforced Destitution of Asylum Seekers in the 
United Kingdom: The Denial of Fundamental Human Rights. 
International Journal of Refugee Law. 10(3) : 462 - 498.

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This may not be the best source for opinions regarding asylum 
seekers, but www.socialistworker.co.uk has been running a number 
of articles in the last few weeks which give a different 
perspective - although not exactly in an 'academic' style.  
Unfortunately this is all I can suggest but I would 
recommend reading the paper from the last few weeks to get 
a feel for counter-arguments regarding the right-wing press.

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-Because the policy is only being implemented from
 April this year, there is very little published 
material on it. But websites are useful;
-Lots of official documents which outline the policy
 are on the Home Office home page 
(HUGE detail on the policy, but no critical evaluation)
-The Refugee Council has a useful home page.

-Also, a paper dealing with the last asylum act might
 be useful and relevant for background information on 
the asylum debate:
Young, C. (1997) 'Political Representations of Geography
 and Place in the United Kingdom Asylum and Immigration 
Bill (1995)', Urban Geography 18 (1), pp62-73.

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-Useful work on asylum seekers within the context 
of social housing provision context):
-Roger Zetter and Martyn Pearl, (1999) 'Sheltering on the 
margins: social housing provision and the impact of 
restrictionism on asylum seekers and refugees in the UK',
 Policy Studies, vol 20, no4. 
-The same authors have written a book (and other papers) on similar stuff.

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-Also could be useful (for Euro comparison and issues
 of citizenship) is:
Alan Pred (1998) 'Memory and the cultural re-working
 of crisis: Racisms and the current moment of danger
 in Sweden, or wanting it like before', Society and Space,
 16, pp. 635-64.
-Alan Pred also has a book coming out this summer on similar stuff.

-Also R. Cohen (1996) Fuzzy Frontiers of Identity.

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Cheers everyone!

David.

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David Harvey
University of Exeter



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