New Publications on Women Asylum Seekers, International Student Restrictions, and Asylum Issues

I feel like as a woman

“I feel like as a woman I’m not welcome.”  A new report by Asylum Aid which aims to provide a gender analysis of UK asylum law, policy and practice.   Asylum Aid argues that:

This research draws on interviews with asylum-seeking women and their advocates across the UK, and detailed analysis of the asylum jurisprudence and policies most relevant to women, to test the Government against these promises.

Further details and information can be found in an article outlining the issues considered in the report by its author, Christel Querton, has been published on the openDemocracy website, and entitled ” Unfair, unsafe and undignified: the treatment of women seeking asylum in the UK.”
[Download Executive Summary]
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network)

Tier 4 tears: how government student visa controls are destroying the private HE sector.  A new briefing report produced by the Liberal Democrat thinktank, Centre Forum.
[Download Report]
See earlier CentreForum publications ‘Tier 4 Fears: why government student visa proposals are unfair’ (June 2011) and ‘Pathway to prosperity: how to make student immigration work for universities and the economy’ (February 2011)
(Source: Migrants’ Rights Network)

Credibility Determinations are not Credible (The Asylumist, Jan. 2012) [Part one] [Part two] [Part three]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

Guidance for Adjudicating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) Refugee and Asylum Claims (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Dec. 2011) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)

The Interpretation of the Convention Ground of ‘Membership of a Particular Social Group’ in the Context of Gender-related Claims for Asylum: A Critical Analysis of the Tribunal’s Approach in the UK, Working Paper, no. 3 (Refugee Law Initiative, Jan. 2012) [text]
(Source: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)