...This chapter identifies how experiences at school, in the job market, with racism, and as refugees are important to understanding why the young men ended up dealing drugs at The River. In addition, it shows how many of them developed strong subcultural identities over time. The chapter notes...

...This chapter presents an account of how the concentration of asylum seekers and refugees in particular European cities became a problem. It first considers the changing position of Europe within the global refugee system, and how this has led to a growth in the number of asylum seekers who...

... and present dispersal of refugees, and provides a continuing commentary on dispersal. The Home Office internal review of 2001 is also studied. Africa Aliens Act 1905 UK China emigration France immigration India Ireland Italy Jews labour migration Peach C refugees Robinson V United Kingdom...

..., and refugees and asylum-seeking children. It highlights the similarities and differences between partnerships in working with the target groups and their families, and the impacts that were achieved. The chapter reviews the way the strategies were implemented and the impacts they had in the short to medium...

... in social work education in Lund and Örebro universities and worked with refugees and with children in Africa and Asia, including leadership roles with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and the Swedish International Development Commission. She contributed to the development of social work...

...This chapter explores different definitions and theoretical approaches to the study of migration and displacement. This includes discussion of official definitions of who counts as a ‘refugee’. Having explored different approaches, including different approaches to understanding women’s migration...

...Starting from the surge of refugees from Syria from 2015, this chapter focuses upon those displaced by violence more generally. From experiences of displacement in Northern Ireland in the relatively recent past, and experiences elsewhere, the chapter focuses upon community responses to new arrivals...

...The chapter uses interviews and secondary literature to analyse the Mustapha Mahmoud Sudanese refugee protest camp, which took place in Cairo, Egypt, in 2005 in front of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) local office. To date, Mustapha Mahmoud is deemed one of the largest...

... on embodiment within migration studies and set it firmly in the field of qualitative data collection and analysis. Doing embodied research is crucial for deploying a noninvasive approach to working with research participants in vulnerable positions, such as migrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking women...

... was used to engage migrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking women in order to elicit personal stories about individual experiences of sensitive nature, such as accessing mental health services. It should be noted that participants' subject position of vulnerable women is not an essential feature...

...The concept of social justice is fundamental to refugee status. That one might be subjected to or fear persecution, but offered protection under the 1951 Refugee Convention, was a monumental addition to post-Second World War responses to the injustices of both the Holocaust and of broader...

... the global North who have tended to spread disease across the world. The chapter demonstrates how this has been the case throughout history, and the deadly implications for refugees that it has given rise to. The aim is to highlight some of the ways in which the almost unfettered mobilities of the world’s...

...Different international and regional agencies count the number of persons crossing borders and internally displaced within states worldwide. Boosted in particular by conflicts in the Middle East, the number of refugees has grown to 15.1 million in 2015 and people of concern to 63.5 million. States...

..., it looks at the challenges facing the EU as a result of a range of global situations – the banking crisis, refugees fleeing ongoing conflict, migration and globalisation, global inequalities in trade and wealth and global insecurity. COVID European Union human rights based approaches xiii refugees...

...In 1974, Turkey invaded Cyprus, turning thousands of people into refugees in their own country. The case of Cyprus demonstrates how extreme circumstances and the grassroots mobilisation of ‘affected people’ can challenge traditional attitudes and force the authorities to promote progressive reforms...

...’ society. It argues that this institutionalised departure from equal access to state provision, separation, and the provision of parallel services specifically for asylum seekers results in social exclusion. It examines the history of dispersing refugees across the UK and it suggests that the contemporary...

...This chapter continues the argument that the asylum and dispersal systems create legislative and policy-imposed liminality. It observes that asylum seekers resist this liminality and different forms of belonging emerge that do not reflect official policy mechanisms designed to ‘integrate’ refugees...

...This chapter introduces readers to the main topic of this book, which is including refugees in research. It examines the policy background regarding asylum and immigration, and moves on to a discussion on the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) seminar series and its corresponding...

...This chapter discusses the experiences taken from the project ‘Bridges and fences’, which serves as an example of making refugees researchers. It first provides a background to the study and looks at the Task Force study before presenting the sample interviewed and the study's findings. The last...

.... The chapter also explores social work approaches to issues of poverty and inequality, as well as the areas of children and families' social work, mental health practice and work with asylum-seekers and refugees as a means of analysing the complex relationship between poverty, social work and social justice...