Current Issues in UK Asylum Law and Policy

Part 1 Law, policy and the determination process: the case of UK Asylum Law and policy - lessons from history? Dallal Stevens; political representations of geography and place in the introduction of the UK Asylum and Immigration Act (1996), Craig Young; a case of ministers behaving badly - the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996, Richard Dunstan; the designation of "safe" countries and individual assessment of asylum claims, Rachel Trost and Peter Billings; the "Internal Flight Alternative" (IFA) test and concept of protection, Hugo Storey; sexual orientation and refuge claims based on "Membership of a Particular Social Group" under the 1951 Refugee Convention, Simon Russell; problems in medical report writing for asylum seekers, Michael Peel; working with the asylum regime - an adjudicator's perspective, Geoffrey Care; researching "The Risks of Getting it Wrong", alison Harvey; protection and process - towards fair and effective asylum determination procedures, Anne Owers and Madeline Garlick; taking human rights seriously in the asylum context? A perspective on the development of law and policy, CJ Harvey; entitled to protection - a human rights-based approach to refugee protection in the United Kingdom, Nicholas Blake QC. Part 2 Beyond the determination process: health screening for newly-arrived asylum seekers and their access to NHS provision, David Jobbins; the mental health needs of refugees and asylum seekers - key issues in research and service development, Charles Watters; the needs of young male refugees in London with particular reference to education and training, Alison Harker and Maknun Gamaledin-Ashami; parent-child communication barriers and mother-tongue education for Vietnamese children in London, Tom Lam; asylum, employer sanctions and race, Selina Goulbourne; asylum seekers' rights to housing - new recipients of the old poor law, Caroline Hunter.