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Coping with Destitution: Survival and Livelihood Strategies of Refused Asylum seekers living in the UK

Heaven Crawley, J Hemmings, N Price

Swansea University Author: Heaven Crawley

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UK asylum policy has increasingly restricted asylum seekers’ access to welfare support, both while their application is being processed and if they are refused. Over recent years, there have been growing concerns about the scale and impact of destitution among refusedasylum seekers. It is estimated...

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title Coping with Destitution: Survival and Livelihood Strategies of Refused Asylum seekers living in the UK
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description UK asylum policy has increasingly restricted asylum seekers’ access to welfare support, both while their application is being processed and if they are refused. Over recent years, there have been growing concerns about the scale and impact of destitution among refusedasylum seekers. It is estimated that 283,500 refused asylum seekers were living in the UK in 2005, and this number seems likely to have increased (National Audit Office 2005). Existing evidence suggests that many asylum seekers have been destitute for more thansix months and a significant proportion for more than two years. This strongly indicates that refused asylum seekers are prepared to face long periods of destitution in the UK rather than returning to their country of origin. This research uncovers how the hundreds of thousands of people currently living in the UK, with no access to legitimate means of securing a livelihood, survive on a day-to-dayand longer-term basis. The strategies adopted by destitute asylum seekers have been analysed within a sustainable livelihoods framework, to ensure a systematic understanding of the different types of resources to which asylum seekers do – and do not – have access, and the impact this has on their lives. This approach also allows us to identify changes to government policy that could help prevent destitution among refused asylum seekers. Fundamentally, the need to remain hidden and to avoid any risk of being deported affects every decision made by destitute asylum seekers, and in turn the coping strategies which they adopt.
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