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Even though legal aid is available for people seeking asylum, there is uneven access to advice across Britain.
Based on empirical research, this book offers fresh thinking on what has gone wrong in the legal aid market. It presents a rare picture of the barristers, solicitors and caseworkers practising immigration law in charities and private firms. In doing so, this book examines supply and demand and illuminates what constitutes high-quality legal aid work/provision, subsequent conflicts with financial rationality and how practitioners resolve these issues.
Challenging existing legal aid policy, this book presents innovative insights to ensure public service markets around the globe function well for all those involved.
In recent years, the United Kingdom's Home Office has started using automated systems to make immigration decisions. These systems promise faster, more accurate, and cheaper decision-making, but in practice they have exposed people to distress, disruption, and even deportation.
This book identifies a pattern of risky experimentation with automated systems in the Home Office. It analyses three recent case studies including: a voice recognition system used to detect fraud in English-language testing; an algorithm for identifying ‘risky’ visa applications; and automated decision-making in the EU Settlement Scheme.
The book argues that a precautionary approach is essential to ensure that society benefits from government automation without exposing individuals to unacceptable risks.
How many questions could you answer in a pub quiz about British values?
Designed to ensure new migrants have accepted British values and integrated, the UK’s citizenship test is often portrayed as a bad pub quiz with answers few citizens know. With the launch of a new post-Brexit immigration system, this is a critical time to change the test.
Thom Brooks draws on first-hand experience of taking the test, and interviews with key figures including past Home Secretaries, to expose the test as ineffective and a barrier to citizenship. This accessible guide offers recommendations for transforming the citizenship test into a ‘bridge to citizenship’ which fosters greater inclusion and integration.
The word ‘refugee’ is both evocative and contested; it means different things to different people. For lawyers, the main legal reference point is the UN Refugee Convention of 1951.
This concise and engaging book follows the structure of the Convention to explore international refugee law. Including an introduction to the historical and legal context, Colin Yeo draws on his experience as an immigration barrister to explain the present-day legal framework for global refugee protection. Chapters consider:
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well-founded fear;
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persecution;
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the loss of refugee status and exclusion;
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the rights of refugees;
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and state responses to refugee claims.
The book includes studies of key legal cases, reviews the successes and failures of the Convention and looks ahead to the future, including the impact of climate change and the Global Compact on Refugees.
Communicating important legal concepts in an approachable way, this is an essential guide for students, lawyers and non-specialists.
Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, and one grounded in human rights, Unaccompanied young migrants explores in-depth the journeys migrant youths take through the UK legal and care systems.
Arriving with little agency, what becomes of these children as they grow and assume new roles and identities, only to risk losing legal protection as they reach eighteen?
Through international studies and crucially the voices of the young migrants themselves, the book examines the narratives they present and the frameworks of culture and legislation into which they are placed. It challenges existing policy and questions, from a social justice perspective, what the treatment of this group tells us about our systems and the cultural presuppositions on which they depend.
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.
Long term resident migrants to the UK, who often possess valuable skills for the economy, still face significant barriers to citizenship. In this important book, Dr Prabhat captures the experiences of those who successfully become British citizens through stories of belonging, citizenship and the law; beautifully illustrated by artist Sam Church. Speaking to contemporary times of Brexit, the book exposes the challenges which become insurmountable for many migrants, and illuminates the gap between policy and practice in gaining British citizenship.
had therefore classified it as ‘complex’, despite the clear evidential support. Bella also had a minor child and an adult child with a serious disability and was, as her caseworker said, “understandably at breaking point” as the family depended on asylum support, which did not provide the extra care her disabled child needed. The caseworker felt frustrated at being unable to reach a resolution, which would enable Bella’s husband to join her under the refugee family reunion rules. The caseworker sent a pre-action letter threatening judicial review of the delay. As
power to inspect ships carrying immigrants and refuse entry to those deemed undesirable, generally by reason of poverty, disability or sickness (Clayton, 2016 ). It gave overall responsibility for the scheme to the Home Secretary. It was augmented with new war-related restrictions in 1914 and 1919, but it was not until after World War II, as the British Empire shrank and migration from the colonies and the new Commonwealth grew, that immigration law began to proliferate and drive the development of an immigration legal profession. The Joint Council for the Welfare
to meet, aimed at focusing capacity on the most vulnerable, while maintaining financial viability and a high quality of work, and mitigating risk, including audit risk. This enabled practitioners and organisations to reconcile quality and financial survival, but had consequences for clients’ ability to access services. As discussed in Chapter 3 , Centre A focused its reduced capacity on the most vulnerable clients, primarily children, victims of domestic violence, trafficking victims and those with additional difficulties, such as disabilities which made it
frequency • Date self-assessment (‘SA’) record set up • SA employment income • SA self-employment income • SA total income • Tax year • Tax return date of receipt • Correlation ID • Start date • End date • Benefit type • Date of death • Gone abroad flag • State Pension and New State Pension • Housing Benefit • Jobseekers Employment Support Allowance • Carer’s Allowance • Universal Credit • Personal Independent Payment • Disability Living Allowance • Income Support • Maternity Allowance • Incapacity Benefit • Attendance Allowance • Severe Disablement Allowance
