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The British Asylum System in Policy and Practice Edanur Yazici.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yazici, Edanur.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Policy Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- This clear and concise guide demystifies the UK asylum process from application to post-decision outcomes, placing each stage in its wider historical and policy context. Featuring vivid vignettes and empirical data to bring policy to life, it bridges theory, practice and lived experience to show how national decisions are encountered on the ground.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Notes on the text
- People seeking asylum, not asylum seekers
- Britain, not the UK
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Aims of the book
- Who this book is for
- All change
- Using this book
- Chapter summaries
- Chapter 1: Where did it all begin?
- Chapter 2: Applying for asylum
- Chapter 3: Receiving a negative decision
- Chapter 4: Receiving a positive decision
- Chapter 5: What does the future hold?
- Chapter 6: Taking action
- Resources and references
- One Where did it all begin?
- Regulating mobile bodies
- State, nation, citizen, subject
- Making citizens
- Protecting the Other: human rights
- The Refugee Convention (or the Geneva Convention)
- Refugees and UK law
- Labour, welfare, and resources
- Conclusion
- Two Applying for asylum
- A note on stories
- Applying for asylum: what comes first?
- Arrival, registering a claim, and initial screening interview
- Mode of arrival, small boats, and 'illegality'
- At port
- At the Asylum Intake Unit
- Detention
- Asylum support and accommodation
- Types of accommodation
- Initial accommodation (Section 98)
- Hotels, barracks, barges: contingency accommodation
- Dispersal and dispersed accommodation (Section 95)
- The substantive interview
- Legal deserts and legal aid
- England and Wales
- Scotland and the North of Ireland
- Waiting for a decision
- Rights and waiting
- Killing time
- The backlog
- Profit and poverty
- Chapter and process summary
- Three Receiving a negative decision
- A negative decision
- Appeals: the First and Upper Tiers
- The First Tier
- Upper Tier
- Appeal Rights Exhausted (ARE)
- Further submissions
- Judicial review
- Around the mulberry bush
- Withdrawn applications.
- Disappearing acts: enforced destitution
- Inadmissibility and the Nationality and Borders Act 2022
- State support for refused asylum seekers
- Section 4
- Disabled adults: England
- Disabled adults: Scotland, Wales, North of Ireland
- Families
- Life as a refused asylum seeker
- Refusals and removals
- Immigration detention
- Immigration raids
- Deportation and charter flights
- Enforced returns
- Assisted voluntary returns
- Creating and sustaining irregularity
- Four Receiving a positive decision
- A positive decision: statuses
- Moving on: work, housing, welfare
- Work: six days after eviction
- Housing: 28 days after eviction
- Welfare: 41 days after eviction
- Discretionary Leave and No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF)
- A zero-sum game: welfare, housing, and solidarity
- Settlement and becoming British
- Good character requirement
- 'Safe and legal' routes: schemes
- Refugee family reunification
- United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) schemes
- Safe and legal futures?
- Five What does the future hold?
- What we know to expect: Labour 2024-?
- Restoring order and control
- Reducing arrivals
- Increasing deportations
- Border Security Asylum and Immigration Bill
- Manifestos and promises: Conservatives, Reform, Lib Dems, Greens
- The Conservative Party
- Reform UK
- The Liberal Democrats
- Green Party of England and Wales
- The wider picture: global turns in the minority world
- Capital, empire, and the international order
- Don't mourn, organise: a fighting future
- An injury to one is an injury to all
- Six Taking action
- Surviving the system
- Everyday resistance
- Applying for asylum and asylum support and accommodation
- A negative decision: destitution and detention.
- Organising for justice
- Master's house, master's tools
- Lighting a candle
- Index.
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Yazici, Edanur The British Asylum System in Policy and Practice
- ISBN:
- 9781447376569
- OCLC:
- 1601989310
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