Current Issues of UK Asylum Law and Policy

Frances Nicholson, Patrick Twomey

• Part 1: Law, Policy and the Determination Process 1. The Case of UK Asylum Law and Policy: Lessons from History? Dallal Stevens 2. Political Representations of Geography and Place in the Introduction of the UK Asylum and Immigration Act (1996) Craig Young 3. A Case of Ministers Behaving Badly: The Asylum and Immigration Act 1996 Richard Dunstan 4. The Designation of Safe Countries and Individual Assessment of Asylum Claims Rachel Trost and Peter Billings 5. The Internal Flight Alternative (IFA) Test and the Concept of Protection Hugo Storey 6. Sexual Orientation and Refugee Claims Based on Membership of a Particular Social Group Under the 1951 Refugee Convention Simon Russell 7. Problems in Medical Report Writing for Asylum Seekers Michael Peel 8. Working with the Asylum Regime: An Adjudicator’s Perspective Geoffrey Care 9. Researching the Risks of Getting it Wrong Alison Harvey 10. Protection and Process: Towards Fair and Effective Asylum Determination Procedures Anne Owers and Madline Garlick 11. Taking Human Rights Seriously in the Asylum Context? A Perspective on the Development of Law and Policy C.J Harvey 12. Entitlement to Protection: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Refugee Protection in the United Kingdom Nicholas Blake QC Part 2: Beyond the Determination Process 13.Health Screening for Newly-Arrived Asylum Seekers and their Access to NHS Provision David Jobbins 14.The Mental Health Needs of Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Key Issues in Research and Rervice Development 15.The Needs of Young Male Refugees in London with Particular Reference to Education and Training Alison Harker and Maknun Gamaledin-Ashami 16. Parent-Child Communication Barriers and Mother-Tongue Education for Vietnamese Children in London Tom Lam 17. Asylum, Employer Sanctions and Race Selina Goulbourne 18.Asylum Seeker’s Rights to Housing: New Recipients of the Old Poor Law Caroline Hunter.

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