Maintaining Family Unity throughout the Asylum Support System in Policy and Practice
- Document number
- 2541
- Date
- 2010
- Title
- Maintaining Family Unity throughout the Asylum Support System in Policy and Practice
- Author/publisher
- Mariya Shisheva, Scottish Refugee Council October 2010
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour; Human Rights approach, Integrated approach; EU instruments; International Human Rights Law, International cooperation; Inter-organisational co-operation, Multi-agency approach, International law; Holistic approach, National Rapporteurs;
- Summary
- The aim of this research is to investigate the challenges to maintaining family unity and to protecting the best interests of the child which the policy and the practice of current asylum support provision pose. So far the debate on the impact of asylum policy on families has revolved around families who arrive together or refugees exercising their right to family unity. In contrast, we focus on families whose members arrived and sought asylum in the UK separately and on couples who started a relationship after arriving in the UK.
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