Focus on Destitution

New report:

Coping with Destitution: Survival and Livelihood Strategies of Refused Asylum Seekers Living in the UK (Oxfam, Feb. 2011) [text]

See also related items:

• Degrading Asylum Seekers Holds a Mirror up to Society (WalesHome, Feb. 2011) [text]
• UK: Destitution among Asylum Seekers (IRIN, Feb. 2011) [text]
• What Happens to Asylum Seekers Who are Destitute? (UK Poverty Post, Feb. 2011) [text]

Other recent reports:

• Australia's Hidden Homeless (Hotham Mission Asylum Seeker Project, August 2010) [text]
• Beyond the Edges of Health­care Pro­vi­sion: the Impact of Des­ti­tu­tion on the Health of Refused Asy­lum Seekers, PAFRAS Briefing Paper, no. 13 (PAFRAS, Sept. 2010) [text]
• Bridging the Protection Gap: Immigration Detention and Forced Migrant Destitution," Working Notes (Dec. 2010) [text]
• "From Persecution to Destitution: A Snapshot of Asylum Seekers' Housing and Settlement Experiences in Canada and the United Kingdom," Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, vol. 8, no. 1 (2010) [abstract]

Upcoming event:

The Invisible Borders: Forced Migrant Destitution in Europe, Brussels, 29 March 2011 [info]
- "Jesuit Refugee Service-Europe invites you to network with experts and practitioners from a variety of fields – migration, asylum, health, employment, education, social welfare, housing – to find concrete solutions for a pan-European problem. ..."

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