Sanctuary to sanction : asylum seekers, refugees and welfare conditionality in the UK

Scullion, LC

Abstract

Successive UK Governments have introduced a raft of legislation that has reduced
the level of support for asylum seekers, whilst simultaneously attaching conditions
to the receipt of this support. While refugee status brings people into the mainstream
welfare system and provides them with similar rights as UK citizens, very little is
known about how they experience the conditionality and sanctions inherent within
this system. Drawing upon new data from longitudinal interviews with refugees,
this paper explores their experiences of navigating the mainstream social security
system and raises questions about the ethicality of the application of conditionality
for forced migrants.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 21, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Oct 1, 2018
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Dec 19, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 31, 2019
• Journal: Journal of Social Security Law
• Print ISSN: 1354-7747
• Publisher: Sweet and Maxwell
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 158-172
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• Additional Information: Additional Information : This is a non-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Social Security Law following peer review. The definitive published version: Scullion, LC 2018, 'Sanctuary to sanction : asylum seekers, refugees and welfare conditionality in the UK' , Journal of Social Security Law, 25 (3) , pp. 158-172. is available online on Westlaw UK or from Thomson Reuters DocDel service.; Projects : Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions, Support and Behaviour Change