Meeting basic needs? Forced migrants and welfare

Dwyer, PJ; Brown, D

Abstract

As the number of forced migrants entering Britain has risen, increasingly restrictive immigration
and asylum policy has been introduced. Simultaneously, successive governments
have sought to limit the welfare entitlements of forced migrants. Drawing on two
sets of semi-structured qualitative interviews, with migrants and key respondents providing
welfare services, this paper considers the adequacy of welfare provisions in relation to the
financial and housing needs of four different groups of forced migrants i.e. refugees, asylum
seekers, those with humanitarian protection status and failed asylum seekers/‘overstayers’.
There is strong evidence to suggest that statutory provisions are failing to meet the basic
financial and housing needs of many forced migrants.

Citation

Dwyer, P., & Brown, D. (2005). Meeting basic needs? Forced migrants and welfare. Social Policy and Society, 4(4), 369-380. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746405002538

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2005
• Deposit Date: Jan 17, 2011
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 5, 2016
• Journal: Social Policy and Society
• Print ISSN: 1474-7464
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 369-380
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746405002538
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1474746405002538