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As well as the easy reference section in the media pages, ICAR's website contains a huge amount of detailed information and research about refugees and asylum seekers that may be useful for journalists.
This includes a statistics section, sign-posting users to statistical data sources with links and commentary. If you're looking for background information on a specific topic or refugee group, ICAR's navigation guides provide an introductory level, in-depth synthesis of recent research findings, summary of relevant legislation and statistical data, and contact details for key organisations and experts. ICAR's factsheets provide similar information summarised into a more succinct format.
ICAR's mapping the UK project gives detailed information about asylum and refugee issues in specific towns and cities. Each section includes an interactive guide to the history of refugee settlement in that area, best available statistics, real life stories and extensive lists of organisations, experts, resources and projects.
ICAR's digests of relevant publications provide summaries of the main findings and recommendations of key reports and publications in a subject-searchable format. Our unique searchable resource directory records all available reports and grey literature pertaining to asylum and refugees in the UK. ICAR has also published a range of reports, handbooks, responses and one-off web and statistical products which might be of help to your work. View ICAR's publications.
The website can direct you to a collection of online case studies providing refugees' own narratives of their experiences as well as accounts from those working and living with them, in our real lives section. Finally, a links directory listing more than 350 other online resources that provide information about asylum seekers, refugees and related issues - indexed by geographical and subject coverage.
Website subject index
If you can't find what you're looking for here, try the easy reference guide, or try a more refined search using ICAR's resources directory or links directory.
Algerians - Algerians in the UK, ICAR navigation guide to refugee populations. Written by Dr Michael Collyer in April 2003 and last updated in May 2004.
Bicester - mapping the UK - Bicester. Bicester was also one of a number of locations around the UK for ICAR's research into the experience of areas that were due to, or had recently received significant numbers of asylum seekers, sometimes for the first time. Read selected research findings from the Understanding the Stranger reports
Cardiff - mapping the UK - Cardiff
Colombians - Colombians in the UK, ICAR navigation guide to refugee populations. Written by Anastasia Bermudez Torres in October 2003.
Coventry - subject of the Welcome project, which aims to facilitate the integration of newcomers into the neighbourhoods of Coventry and to learn lessons that can be applied in other parts of the country. Coventry is also one of the locations for part of ICAR's Understanding the Stranger project, which explores what it's like to be young and living in an area where asylum seekers and refugees are arriving. focUS - connecting futures is a video-making project for young people.
Dover - one of a number of locations around the UK for ICAR's research into the experience of people living in areas that were due to, or had recently received significant numbers of asylum seekers, sometimes for the first time. Read selected research findings from the Understanding the Stranger reports
Employment - Refugee employment in the UK, ICAR navigation guide to key issues. Written by Kirsteen Tait in May 2003
Europe - EU accession and asylum, ICAR's Signpost series, April 2004 - updated May 2004.
Experience of exile - , seminar series organised by ICAR and hosted by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, June 2003
Films about refugees - Films about asylum seekers, refugees and forced migration, ICAR's signpost series. Written by Jo Pettitt and Esme Peach June 2004 - updated January 2005.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender - Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (lgbt) refugees and asylum seekers, ICAR navigation guide to key issues. Written by Anisa de Jong in September 2003.
Glasgow - mapping the UK - Glasgow
Kosovars - Kosovars in the UK, ICAR navigation guide to refugee populations, written by Kate Smart in March 2004.
Lambeth - mapping the UK - Lambeth
Law/Legal issues - asylum law and process, ICAR navigation guide to key issues. Written by Kim Ward in June 2003 and last updated in July 2004.
Leeds - one of a number of locations around the UK for ICAR's research into the experience of areas that were due to, or had recently received significant numbers of asylum seekers, sometimes for the first time. Read selected research findings from the Understanding the Stranger reports
Leicester - mapping the UK - Leicester. Leicester was also one of a number of locations around the UK for ICAR's research into the experience of areas that were due to, or had recently received significant numbers of asylum seekers, sometimes for the first time. Read selected research findings from the Understanding the Stranger reports
Liberians - Liberians in the UK, ICAR's Signpost series. Written by Rachel Henson March 2004 - updated June 2004
media coverage - see 'Reporting asylum'
Newcastle - one of a number of locations around the UK for ICAR's research into the experience of areas that were due to, or had recently received significant numbers of asylum seekers, sometimes for the first time. Read selected research findings from the Understanding the Stranger reports
Oakington - one of a number of locations around the UK for ICAR's research into the experience of areas that were due to, or had recently received significant numbers of asylum seekers, sometimes for the first time. Read selected research findings from the Understanding the Stranger reports
Peterborough - currently one of the locations for part of ICAR's Understanding the StrangerfocUS - connecting futures is a video-making project for young people.
Public opinion/attitudes - public attitudes to asylum, ICAR navigation guide to key issues. Written by Nissa Finney in July 2005.
Regional protection zones - regional protection zones and transit processing centres, ICAR navigation guide to key issues. Written by Kim Ward in November 2004 based on an original report by Miriam Anderson.
project, which explores what it's like to be young and living in an area where asylum seekers and refugees are arriving. reporting asylum - see ICAR's asylum in the media programme. Also relevant are the following ICAR publications: The challenge of reporting refugees and asylum seekers: ICAR report on regional media events organised by the Presswise RAM project, by Nissa Finney May 2003; The challenge of reporting refugees and asylum seekers, Executive summary May 2003. These are available from ICAR's publications page.
Resettlement - resettlement programmes and the UK, ICAR navigation guide to key issues. Written by George J. Wright IV in May 2003 and recently updated in August 2005, with input from Kim Ward and Esme Peach.
Roma - Roma in the UK, ICAR's Signpost series, April 2004.
Rwandans - Rwandans in the UK, ICAR's Signpost series, March 2004 - updated July 2004
Sheffield - mapping the UK - Sheffield
Somalis - ICAR's patterns of refugee settlement programme contains information on the ICAR report, The Somali community in the UK: What we know and how we know it, by Hermione Harris, June 2004. .
Southampton - mapping the UK - Southampton
Women - women asylum seekers and refugees in the UK, ICAR navigation guide to key issues. Written by Hildegard Dumper in November 2003 and last updated in November 2004
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Last Updated: 25/02/09
