A safe place to be?: the quality of life of asylum-seekers in Sheffield and Wakefield
The issue of asylum-seeking and the growth in the numbers of refugees
and the pace
and volume of international migration has become one of the most bitterly contested
political issues of the past decade across the world. But what is it like to be an
asylum-seeker in the UK? This detailed report, commissioned by two local authorities
which have received many asylum-seekers under the government's dispersal programme,
explores in their own words the feelings, hopes and experiences of
asylum-seekers as they wait for a decision on their future. It examines
their experience of arrival, the induction process, their encounters
with welfare services, their contact with local residents, and their
hopes for the future. Overall, it offers a mixed picture, of support,
good quality services and personal kindness mixed with hostility, racism
and the inadequacies of some welfare providers. It paints a picture of
people who have been stripped of most of their identity waiting to be
able to rebuild their lives and contribute to the country which
has become their new home. In doing so it challenges many of the
myths created by politicians and much of the media.
© The University of Hull
ISBN 1 903704 23 5
Price £10 (£4 to local refugee and community groups)
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