The Asylum Procedure in Germany: Desperation and Uncertainty as Risk Factors for Violence Among Young Adult Asylum Seekers in Collective Accommodations

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626052095797
Author(s):  
Ahmad Al Ajlan
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Total Institution ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
The Right ◽  
Asylum Procedure

This study explores how violence occurs among young adult asylum seekers in collective accommodations in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It provides an insider perspective to understand a phenomenon related to non-European people who were forced to leave their countries to seek asylum. Based on 16 qualitative interviews with young adult male asylum seekers from Syria and some African countries, seven interviews with social workers, and one interview with a German psychological therapist, the author finds that the asylum procedure in Germany as a total institution catalyzes violence among young adult asylum seekers in collective accommodations. The present study shows that collective accommodations are unhomely places, where “inmates” lack privacy and autonomy. In addition, the asylum procedure deprives them of essential human needs, such as the right to work and to have full access to the health care system. These circumstances make them uncertain and desperate, which leads to violence among them. The author calls for more attention towards the human needs of asylum seekers, rather than making them related to the granting of asylum, which can ultimately take years.

Asylum-Seekers and the Right to Work

2016 ◽  
pp. 99-120
Author(s):  
Steve Kirkwood ◽  
Simon Goodman ◽  
Chris McVittie ◽  
Andy McKinlay
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
The Right

The Dynamics of Political Economy in Ireland: The Case of Asylum Seekers and the Right to Work

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Loyal ◽  
Ciarán Staunton
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
Democratic Rights ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Right

This paper is partly the outcome of research that was conducted on behalf of the Irish Refugee Council between January and July 2000.' The research was prompted by the Irish Government's decision to allow the right to work to asylum seekers who had made their applications for asylum in Ireland 12 months prior to 27 July 1999. It incorporated both qualitative and quantitative techniques and included a sample of 37 asylum seekers who had received the right to work. Due to in-built research requirements, the research report focused entirely upon concrete social policy recommendations towards creating a viable, democratic, rights-based and equality focused environment within which to address the employment and social needs of Asylum Seekers. Sociopolitical analysis was therefore not the primary focus of the research. However, a re-evaluation of the findings allowed such sociopolitical themes to be subsequently explored in this article.

Restrictions on Right to Work for Asylum Seekers: The Case of the Scandinavian Countries, Great Britain and the Netherlands

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Valenta ◽  
Kristin Thorshaug
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Right

This article provides an overview of recent developments in restrictions regarding asylum seekers’ right to work in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Great Britain and the Netherlands. It is acknowledged that a distinction should be made between policies which regulate the right to work for i) asylum seekers with a pending application and ii) asylum seekers with a final refusal on their application. In the article, contemporary policies as well as recent changes in regulations in the five countries are described in detail and compared. Furthermore, the article discusses potential consequences of these policies. A review of relevant public documents, research and basic statistics are used in an attempt to answer the question whether the relative strictness of policies regarding right to work can be linked to the influx and return of asylum seekers in the surveyed countries. It is argued that access to work has little, if any, effect on variations in this respect. At the same time, it is maintained that reduced access to work has unintended consequences, inter alia, contributing to a further marginalisation of asylum seekers in both the application and return phase.

scholarly journals Becoming Undocumented: Legislation and Asylum Processes in Finland

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-91
Author(s):  
Jussi S. Jauhiainen ◽  
Miriam Tedeschi
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Access To Healthcare ◽  
Undocumented Migrants ◽  
Undocumented Migrant ◽  
International Protection ◽  
Common Path ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThe phenomenon of irregular migration is very complex in the EU, including Finland. Definitions and practices regarding asylum seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants are blurred. The laws and immigration policies also attempt to define and enact fixed categories by which to classify undocumented migrants, but these people always escape such legal boundaries through their actions, decisions, and migratory behaviours.In this chapter, we study the asylum-related legislation and processes from the viewpoints of both the authorities who decide whether to grant international protection, and the undocumented migrants who request asylum. The chapter describes the Finnish asylum process in detail, and explains how the undocumented migrants (mostly former asylum seekers) we studied experienced it. Some countries tolerate undocumented migrants, allowing them to work and have access to many public services. In other countries, such as Finland, they are denied the right to work and barely have access to healthcare. Being an undocumented migrant is simultaneously about becoming an undocumented migrant, and failing the asylum process is the most common path to becoming an undocumented migrant. We also indicate how, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of new asylum applications in Finland decreased by more than half.

scholarly journals Okra in translation

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Ciribuco
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
West African ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Community Gardening ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Basic Human Needs ◽  
Key Participants

Abstract This article explores the theme of food translation, based on research conducted in Italy in 2018 with a group of asylum seekers from different West African countries. It concentrates on a community gardening project revolving around the cultivation of okra: a vegetable that is a staple in many African cuisines, but not very popular in Italy, which provided the occasion for the participants to communicate their home foodways. As something that is linked to the most basic human needs, and yet bears high cultural significance, food can be used as a lens to explore the shifting relationship between language and other embodied forms of meaning. Translating food means engaging with a complex interplay of language, sensory experiences, and socio-cultural norms. Drawing from recent semiotically-oriented developments in translation studies as well as applied linguistics, and the semiotics of food, I analyze key participants’ involvement with the project.

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