[refugee-rights] Reports on decision making and networks of asylum seekers

Home Office Research Publications

You may be interested to know that the Immigration Research and Statistics
Service (IRSS) published two research reports this week.

'Understanding the Decision Making of Asylum Seekers' by Vaughan Robinson
and Jeremy Seagrott (University of Wales, Swansea) is a report of in-depth
research undertaken with 65 asylum seekers on whether, and if so why, they
had chosen to come to the UK. The report is part of the Home Office Research
Series and can be found at
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/hors243.pdf or ordered directly from
RDS at the address given. A research Findings has also been produced which
can be downloaded at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r172.pdf

'The Social Networks of Asylum Seekers and the Dissemination of Information
about Countries of Asylum' by Khalid Koser and Charles Pinkerton (Migration
Research Unit, UCL) presents the findings of a feasibility study to identify
the mechanisms by which asylum seekers obtain information about potential
countries of asylum. The full report is available as an on-line (web only)
publication at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/socialnetwork.pdf .  A
research Findings has also been produced which can be downloaded at
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/r165.pdf

The Findings of an evaluation into the operation of the Voluntary Assisted
Returns Programme will be published on the 31st July. Please visit the RDS
website http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds for further information.

Dr Heaven Crawley
Head, Asylum and Immigration Research
Immigration Research and Statistics Service
Room 1309a, Apollo House
36 Wellesley Road
Croydon CR9 3RR