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Understanding Criminalisation - Why Some Young People Seeking Asylum Come into Contact with the Criminal Justice System
This research found that young people seeking asylum in the UK are often very particularly vulnerable due to their life experiences before, during, and after migration. Systems of accommodation and support in the UK, provided by local authorities and the Home Office, increase this vulnerability. Behaviours that arise from this increased vulnerability (such as offending behaviours) are surveilled and disciplined through contact with the police.
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Call for Expressions of Interest 2024: Training and supervision for OISC caseworkers in delivering complex asylum, human rights and trafficking casework
Asylum Aid is partnering with the Justice Together Initiative to provide in depth training for OISC Level 2 advisers who want to deliver casework at OISC Levels 2 and 3, particularly in complex asylum, human rights and trafficking cases.
Remote immigration and asylum advice: what we know and what we need to know
The current state of immigration and asylum advice is dire – 63% of the population in England and Wales do not have access to an immigration and asylum legal aid provider. Even those that do live near one of the remaining providers face significant barriers in accessing legally aided advice, due to saturated provider capacity precipitated by years of unsustainable legal aid fees, heavy administrative burdens and burnt-out practitioners. The provision of immigration and asylum advice in England and Wales is ‘not even adequate for first-time adult asylum applications, with a deficit of at least 6,000 for asylum applications and appeals’.
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