scholarly journals The experiences of an African woman seeking refuge in Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Holita
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Favorable Outcome ◽  
African Woman ◽  
The West ◽  
Refugee Convention ◽  
The Us ◽  
Free Movement Of Goods ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
Insight Into

This research paper provides insight into the experiences and challenges that asylum seekers go through in their quest to obtain legal status in countries in the West. Even though countries like Canada, the US, UK and Australia are signatories to the 1951 Refugee Convention, this paper attempts to show that these countries are not adhering to the principles of the Convention when it comes to the issues of those labelled as asylum seekers or refugees. My paper focuses specifically on the challenges and the experiences that those with these labels go through, from the ways employed into the attempts to negotiate borders to ways that will provide a favorable outcome from the Immigration and Refugee Board. Further, the study strives to highlight that governments of the West are violating the mobility rights of refugees and asylum seekers in favor of corporations and the free movement of goods.

scholarly journals The experiences of an African woman seeking refuge in Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Holita
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Favorable Outcome ◽  
African Woman ◽  
The West ◽  
Refugee Convention ◽  
The Us ◽  
Free Movement Of Goods ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
Insight Into

This research paper provides insight into the experiences and challenges that asylum seekers go through in their quest to obtain legal status in countries in the West. Even though countries like Canada, the US, UK and Australia are signatories to the 1951 Refugee Convention, this paper attempts to show that these countries are not adhering to the principles of the Convention when it comes to the issues of those labelled as asylum seekers or refugees. My paper focuses specifically on the challenges and the experiences that those with these labels go through, from the ways employed into the attempts to negotiate borders to ways that will provide a favorable outcome from the Immigration and Refugee Board. Further, the study strives to highlight that governments of the West are violating the mobility rights of refugees and asylum seekers in favor of corporations and the free movement of goods.

Arranging and negotiating the use of informal interpreters in general practice consultations: Experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in the west of Ireland

2009 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne MacFarlane ◽  
Zhanna Dzebisova ◽  
Dmitri Karapish ◽  
Bosiljka Kovacevic ◽  
Florence Ogbebor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Practice ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
The West ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
West Of Ireland

scholarly journals Does Halting Refugee Resettlement Reduce Crime? Evidence from the US Refugee Ban

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Masterson ◽  
Vasil Yasenov
Keyword(s):  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Refugee Resettlement ◽  
County Level ◽  
Executive Order ◽  
Security Risk ◽  
Discernible Effect ◽  
The Us ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Many countries have reduced refugee admissions in recent years, in part due to fears that refugees and asylum seekers increase crime rates and pose a national security risk. Existing research presents ambiguous expectations about the consequences of refugee resettlement on crime. We leverage a natural experiment in the US, where an Executive Order by the president in January 2017 halted refugee resettlement. This policy change was sudden and significant – it resulted in the lowest number of refugees resettled on US soil since 1977 and a 66% drop in resettlement from 2016 to 2017. In this letter we find that there is no discernible effect on county-level property or violent crime rates.

Holot Legislative Theatre: Performing Refugees in Israel

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-172
Author(s):  
Sonja Arsham Kuftinec
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Social Dilemmas ◽  
Mixed Group ◽  
Refugee Convention ◽  
Personal Stories ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Holot Legislative Theatre (HLT) is a mixed group of African asylum seekers and Israeli allies. Through continuously evolving, modular, interactive performances, the ensemble presents social dilemmas created by Israeli state policy towards refugees and asylum seekers. Based on testimonies and personal stories, HLT offers a rereading of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention.

Is China Catching Up?

Biotechnology ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1689-1732
Author(s):  
Petr Hanel
Keyword(s):  
Medical Devices ◽  
Basic Research ◽  
The West ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
The Us ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Latecomer Firms ◽  
Innovative Industry ◽  
Insight Into

The chapter examines whether Chinese health-related biotechnology is catching up with leaders in the field. The approach is inspired by Malerba's Sectoral System of Innovation and Production, complemented by Mathew's insight into strategies for latecomer firms. The results show that Chinese scientists are quickly catching up in the output of scientific publications. However, the basic research remains insufficient for the development of a sustainable, innovative industry. The industrial production of biotechnology-based manufacturing of drugs and medical devices is growing slower than their knowledge base. Most firms still manufacture under license or contract low-value “me too” generic pharmaceutical and biosimilar ingredients medicines. The intensity of R&D and patenting in China increased dramatically, especially in the foreign-invested firms but China's share of biotechnology patenting in the US, EPO and Japan are very low. In summary, Chinese biotechnology ‘industry' is catching up with the West, but it has a long way to go.

scholarly journals International Migration amid a World in Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-245
Author(s):  
Joseph Chamie
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
International Community ◽  
Executive Summary ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
National Border ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers ◽  
Push And Pull

Executive Summary This article comprehensively examines international migration trends and policies in light of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It begins by reviewing migration developments throughout the past 60 years. It then examines pandemic-related migration trends and policies. It concludes with a series of general observations and insights that should guide local, national, regional, and international policymakers, moving forward. In particular, it proposes the following: National measures to combat COVID-19 should include international migrants, irrespective of their legal status, and should complement regional and international responses. Localities, nations, and the international community should prioritize the safe return and reintegration of migrants. States and international agencies should plan for the gradual re-emergence of large-scale migration based on traditional push and pull forces once a COVID-19 vaccine is widely available. States should redouble their efforts to reconcile national border security concerns and the basic human rights of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. States and the international community should accelerate their efforts to address climate-related migration. States of origin, transit, and destination should directly address the challenges of international migration and not minimize them.

scholarly journals What’s Wrong with Temporary Protected Status and How to Fix It: Exploring a Complementary Protection Regime

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Frelick
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Attorney General ◽  
The United States ◽  
Executive Summary ◽  
Refugee Convention ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Real Risk ◽  
The Us ◽  
Degrading Treatment

Executive Summary Temporary Protected Status (TPS) became part of the US protection regime in 1990 to expand protection beyond what had been available under the US Refugee Act of 1980, which had limited asylum to those who met the refugee definition from the United Nations’ 1951 Refugee Convention. The TPS statute authorized the attorney general to designate foreign countries for TPS based on armed conflict, environmental disasters, and other extraordinary and temporary conditions that prevent designated nationals from returning in safety. While providing blanket protection that very likely has saved lives, TPS has nonetheless proven to be a blunt instrument that has frustrated advocates on both sides of the larger immigration debate. This article evaluates the purpose and effectiveness of the TPS statute and identifies inadequacies in the TPS regime and related protection gaps in the US asylum system. It argues that TPS has not proven to be an effective mechanism for the United States to protect foreigners from generalized conditions of danger in their home countries. It calls for changing the US protection regime to make it more responsive to the risks many asylum seekers actually face by creating a broader “complementary protection” standard and a more effective procedure for assessing individual protection claims, while reserving “temporary protection” for rare situations of mass influx that overwhelm the government’s capacity to process individual asylum claims. The article looks at alternative models for complementary protection from other jurisdictions, and shows how the US asylum and TPS system (in contrast to most other jurisdictions) fails to provide a mechanism for protecting arriving asylum seekers who do not qualify as refugees but who nevertheless would be at real risk of serious harm based on cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment or because of situations of violence or other exceptional circumstances, including natural or human-made disasters or other serious events that disturb public order, that would threaten their lives or personal security. The article proposes that the United States adopt an individualized complementary protection standard for arriving asylum seekers who are not able to meet the 1951 Refugee Convention standard but who would face a serious threat to life or physical integrity if returned because of a real risk of (1) cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment; (2) violence; or (3) exceptional situations, for which there is no adequate domestic remedy.

scholarly journals Life satisfaction of refugees living in Germany

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-102
Author(s):  
Daria Mendola ◽  
Anna Maria Parroco
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Perceived Quality Of Life ◽  
Ordinal Regression Model ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

Since 2015, Germany has been hosting noticeable incoming flows of refugees and asylum seekers, leading, in 2020, the ranking of European countries and being the fifth in the world ranking for the number of hosted refugees. Despite the quality of life of refugees is expected to be improved in the aftermath of their arrival to Germany, refugees are still facing several problems of integration and economic deprivation (e.g., about 90% are unemployed). Hence, it is a worthwhile exercise to study how satisfied they are with their present life. Using a sample of 3,408 individuals from the German IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees (regarding refugees and asylum seekers who came to the country between January 2013 and January 2016), we present some preliminary analyses on the life satisfaction (LS) of these vulnerable individuals. Particularly, satisfaction levels were arranged by quartile and an ordinal regression model was estimated to focus on the association among levels of LS and main socio-demographic characteristics. Syrians experience worst perceived quality of life (LS), such as older and higher educated people, other things being equal. Uncertainty, due to their legal status or to lesser support received by law, may explain that those with dismissed or pending asylum application are less satisfied than refugees. Family arrangements, as expected, has an impact, other things being equal, on the overall life satisfaction: the higher the number of co-residing household members the higher the LS; cohabiting partner of spouse affect positively LS. Noticeably, LS is positively associated with satisfaction in specific domains such as health, privacy in the current living arrangement, and neighbourhood safety. Interesting insights come out for policy design.

Rethinking Education Policies Within the Axis of Being a Refugee

2018 ◽  
pp. 108-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
İlknur Şentürk
Keyword(s):  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
National Education ◽  
Educational Rights ◽  
Educational Environments ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

In this chapter, concept of refugees, legal status of refugees, educational rights of refugees, concept of multicultural education are discussed. This section on refugees and immigrants in Turkey, multiculturalism, multicultural education concept aims to investigate basic human right of the refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers, right of education. Principles and recommendations should be produced on structuring and management of multicultural educational environments that would support right and struggle of existence of refugees, who would affect the future social, cultural, economic and political structure of Turkey, in this structure. As a result, in Turkish context, a “Commission for Educational Programs and Strategies for Refugee and Immigrants” that would include multidisciplinary experts and implementers and would be activated within National Education Ministry and organized also in periphery could produce and implement action plans and projects to provide educational rights of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers in rational, academic, legal, political and humane manner.

Health Status of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Europe

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Humphris ◽  
Hannah Bradby
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Socioeconomic Background ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Refugees And Asylum Seekers

The health status of refugees and asylum seekers varies significantly across the European region. Differences are attributed to the political nature of the legal categories of “asylum seeker” and “refugee”; the wide disparities in national health services; and the diversity in individual characteristics of this population including age, gender, socioeconomic background, country of origin, ethnicity, language proficiency, migration trajectory, and legal status. Refugees are considered to be at risk of being or becoming relatively “unhealthy migrants” compared to those migrating on the basis of economic motives, who are characterized by the “healthy migrant effect.” Refugees and asylum seekers are at risk to the drivers of declining health associated with settlement such as poor diet and housing. Restricted access to health care whether from legal, economic, cultural, or language barriers is another likely cause of declining health status. There is also evidence to suggest that the “embodiment” of the experience of exclusion and marginalization that refugee and asylum seekers face in countries of resettlement significantly drives decrements in the health status of this population.

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