scholarly journals Complexity reduction and policy consensus: Asylum seekers, the right to work, and the ‘pull factor’ thesis in the UK context

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 812-828 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Mayblin
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Complexity Reduction ◽  
Pull Factor ◽  
Right To Work ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right

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

scholarly journals Asylum Seekers and the Labour Market: Spaces of Discomfort and Hostility

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 669-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Waite
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
Modern Slavery ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right ◽  
Hostile Environments ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Policy Shifts ◽  
Recent Policy

This article examines the relationship in the UK between asylum-seeking and the labour market. Since 2002, asylum-seekers have not been allowed to work unless they have waited over twelve months for an initial decision on their asylum claim. This policy change occurred as employment was considered a ‘pull factor’ encouraging unfounded asylum claims. Despite not having the right to work, asylum-seekers – and especially those whose applications for refugee status have been refused by the UK government – interact with the labour market in manifold ways. Drawing on an ESRC-funded study in the UK's Yorkshire and Humber region and related studies, this article argues that both asylum-seekers and refused asylum-seekers form a hyper-exploitable pool of ‘illegalised’ and unprotected workers. As a vital part of their survival terrain, work is largely experienced as for-cash labouring in low-paid labour market sectors where the spectre of exploitation and even ‘modern slavery’ are perpetual threats. Recent policy shifts are deepening such threats through creating increasingly ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘hostile’ environments for certain categories of migrants.

scholarly journals Making sense of mixed-embeddedness in migrant informal enterprising

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 974-995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo P. Bisignano ◽  
Imad El-Anis
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Migrant Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to discuss how informal migrant entrepreneurs with different legal statuses interpret their mixed-embeddedness in social and economic contexts. Legal status represents a key determinant in shaping accessible social networks and market opportunities that in turn influence entrepreneurial choices.Design/methodology/approachThe paper adopts an interpretative stance to explore how migrant entrepreneurs interpret mixed-embeddedness. It draws on the empirical evidence from a cross-sectional sample of 26 asylum seekers that engaged with enterprising activities in the city of Nottingham in the UK. A recursive hermeneutic process guided the iterative readings of the accounts to develop theoretical insights on how these agents reinvent their relationship with structure.FindingsA novel theoretical framework emerges from the data analysis to present how these particular migrants use understandings of community and notions of capital to make sense of their mixed-embeddedness. The main theoretical contribution of the framework is to illustrate how groups with different legal statuses produce unique interpretations of mixed-embeddedness. This, in turn, reflects onto specific forms of enterprising and innovative entrepreneurial choices. The framework also produces an empirical contribution as it re-centres the analysis of mixed-embeddedness around the migrant entrepreneur from previous meso- and macro-level perspectives that dominated recent research.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper expands knowledge on the notion of mixed-embeddedness by providing insights on how informal migrant entrepreneurs make sense of it. This can form the basis for allowing scholars to address empirically how migrant entrepreneurs reconcile their embeddedness in both social and economic contexts. In terms of practical implications, the paper paves the way for policy-makers to re-evaluate the current approach to the right of asylum seekers to pursue entrepreneurial activities.Originality/valueThe notion of mixed-embeddedness is central to research on informal migrant enterprising. Nevertheless, the concept remains fuzzy and difficult to operationalise. The paper offers an opportunity to understand how migrant entrepreneurs make sense of mixed-embeddedness so that future scholars can better explore how mixed-embeddedness reconciles agency and structure.

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.

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