Flawed regulations are leaving asylum
seekers destitute and homelessness, according to a new report funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
«Government policy is to use a carrot and stick approach of making rejected asylum
seekers destitute while offering very basic support if applicants say they will «voluntarily» return to the place they fled,» reads the CAP website.
Not exact matches
Thousands of asylum
seekers in the UK are
destitute, marginalised and fear for their lives.
«Thousands of asylum
seekers are
destitute and it is illegal for them to work,» explains Niall Cooper, national co-ordinator of Church Action on Poverty (CAP).
Now if the latter is to have decisive significance, the
seeker must be
destitute of the Truth up to the very moment of his learning it; he can not even have possessed it in the form of ignorance, for in that case the moment becomes merely occasional.
G4S, Serco and Clearel signed contracts in March 2012 to find housing for
destitute asylum
seekers in a move intended to save # 20 million a year over seven years.
In March 2012, the Home Office decided it wanted to shave off # 140 million from the price of housing the 23,000
destitute asylum
seekers waiting to be cleared.
In this context, the meaning of the term «genuine obstacle» is crucial: the more narrowly it is defined, the wider will be the category of
destitute failed asylum -
seekers who will be ineligible for support.
However, the meaning of the term «genuine obstacle» — and so the extent of the category of
destitute failed asylum -
seekers who will be ineligible for support — is not to be found anywhere in the Bill.
Calais, of course, contains at the other end of the social spectrum
destitute asylum
seekers who wish to try to enter Britain.
Asylum
seekers: YLAL committee member Ronagh Craddock wrote for openJustice about the impact of legal aid cuts on asylum
seekers, who may be left homeless and
destitute because of lack of access to legal advice.
She is chair and co-founder of the Asylum Support Appeals Project, which represents
destitute asylum -
seekers.
There are two sources of support for
destitute adult asylum
seekers.
In his judgment, Simon Brown LJ said that the regulations contemplated for some asylum -
seekers «a life so
destitute that to my mind no civilised nation can tolerate it» — «a sorry state of affairs» that could be achieved by «primary legislation alone».