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Title: Support for Asylum-seekers and other Migrants View count: 37 Rating: 5.0 (2 ratings) Description: WELFARE AND LEGAL RIGHTS OF ASYLUM SEEKERS IN FOCUS An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers Publications from the Legal Action Group (LAG), particularly the handbooks for advisers, are becoming increasingly well known to the wider public. They are admired for their rigorously high standards of thorough research, as well as for their plain speaking, practicality, ease of use and, importantly, the sense of compassion that lies at their heart which we rely heavily on as professional when giving advice. So, Support for Asylum Seekers and Other Migrants continues in this vein in this 3rd edition which, as the LAG notes, is the only handbook that focuses exclusively on the welfare and legal rights of asylum seekers. Additionally, the third edition has been expanded to cover the welfare needs of other migrants, in particular refused asylum seekers at the end of the process and EU nationals. The authors view with dismay, if not alarm, the current situation in which asylum seekers typically find themselves, observing that little has changed since publication of the last edition of the handbook in 2004. Alison Harvey, General Secretary of the Immigration Law Practitioners Association refers in the foreword to the combination of poor administration and punitive policies that view destitution as a means of immigration control that have long dogged this area of law. Muddle and misery, she says, quoting Helen Bambers preface to the first edition of the Handbook in 2002, will do just as well to describe the situation in 2009. All the more reason, imply the authors, for asylum seekers -- vulnerable and desperate as they usually are to be able to access representation and advice from advocates possessing a sound understanding of applicable national and international law. In this extremely vexed area of advocacy, legal representatives must be able to grasp and utilize expertise not just across immigration, but across other areas of law, particularly welfare benefits, community care and housing; all against a backdrop of a frequently changing legal aid system. This handbook, which has extended its scope to include other migrants - including those whose claims for asylum have failed but who cannot be returned to their country - is of immense help to the practitioner who needs to navigate the troubled waters of immigration. Therefore, if youre an advocate or adviser involved with, or specializing in immigration law, make sure you add this invaluable handbook to your professional library, especially in view of the relevant provisions of the Borders Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009, anticipated for July 2011. The contents of the Handbook reflect the law as at August 2009 and put this emotive subject very much in focus. ISBN: 978-1-903307-72-4 Tags: richmondgreenchambers, legalactiongroup, Author: goodbyee007 |
