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Welcome to UTS microsite
21st November 2008
   
On the UTS microsite you can find details about ICAR's work and research on promoting understanding between refugees and asylum seekers and their host communities at a local level.

This section is designed to support practitioners and policy-makers working on this issue by providing you with easily understandable research findings and the experience and learning of your counterparts across the UK.

It also provides information about ICAR’s research and current projects. Learn more ››

New report: Housing, New Migration and Community Relations

Recent research has shown strongly that access to social and privately rented housing, where most refugees, asylum seekers and new labour migrants are accommodated, is a critical social pressure point. This report brings together and reflects upon existing literature that makes links between housing, community relations and new migrants.
young people and asylum


ICAR in partnership with Frontline AV and Living Lens has initiated focUS, a participatory film-making project which followed around young people both in Coventry and Peterbourough and recorded their experiences.

  • What's it like to be young and living in an area where asylum seekers and refugees are arriving?
  • What's it like to be young and seeking asylum and a new life in the UK?
  • Where these two worlds meet?

focUS - connecting futures, found out.
public attitudes


ICAR has published two documents on public attitudes towards asylum in the UK. A navigation guide, by Nissa Finney from the University of Liverpool, is a comprehensive introduction to the evidence we currently have on public attitudes, how this is measured and what factors are important in forming attitudes.

To accompany this guide, there is an associated briefing, which addresses similar issues in a more concise and accessible way. Both products also signpost the user to further reading and other resources and are available to download if PDF format.

experiences


Stories from parts of the UK that are due to or have recently received asylum seekers in significant numbers, sometimes for the first time.

ICAR undertook research in a number of locations around the UK in order to try to find out - extracts from the findings can be read here.

Page last updated: 13/05/08