ASYLUM SEEKERS

Developing Strategies to Motivate Asylum Seekers and Refugee Volunteers



Table of Contents

Introduction1

Aims and objectives1

Literature Review2

Asylum seekers2

Refugee2

Process3

High Commissioner for Refugees4

Social Workers response to the Needs of Refugees and Asylum Seekers4

Professional Support5

Social counselling and Advise5

Supporting integration in the Host Country5

Ways to motivate asylum seekers and refugee volunteers6

Methodology8

Research Design8

Qualitative research method9

Secondary Source of Data9

Rationale10

Limitation of the study11

Literature search11

Sampling11

Ethical Considerations12

References14

Developing Strategies to Motivate Asylum Seekers and Refugee Volunteers

Introduction

The problem of refugees is not new. It has transited from various forms across the world. They are the people who face worst circumstances of wars, draughts, and the civil unrest that made them move to other countries. This phenomenon is still in work; however, the difference is that the social organizations and NGOs are found more commonly today to cater to the needs of these refugees. Refugees are individuals who forcibly leave their homes and seek refuge in some other country. Under the convention of united nation relating to the status for refugees, a refugee refers to a person who is owing to the fear of persecution for the reason of religion, race, membership, nationality of a particular group, or political opinion. The concept of asylum seeker is similar to refugee (Zolberg, 2008, pp 649). It refers to someone who leaves his country for safety or for political reason or due to war. These people travel to another country hoping that the government will protect them and let them live there. This paper discusses the strategies motivate asylum seekers and refugees volunteers in UK community organizations.

Aims and objectives

The overall aim of the research is to develop strategies to motivate asylum seekers and refugees volunteers in UK community organizations: The research objectives are to:

not to return people who face a real risk of violation of certain human rights

Providing refuge to victims of religious, political, ethnic, and other forms of persecution

explore ways in which asylum seeking and refugee populations might experience and conceive problems and issues differently, both in relation to each other and to the wider population;

To ensure that people who meet the definition of refugee under the Convention are not sent back to a country where their life or freedom would be threatened.

Literature Review

Asylum seekers

Asylum seekers are one of the most vulnerable groups within our society, with often complex health and social care needs. Within this group are individuals more vulnerable still, including pregnant women, unaccompanied children .The UK government is a signatory to a number of international and national laws and covenants, committing them to human rights legislation which also covers those seeking asylum. Reducing inequalities, and health inequalities, is a government priority, and strategies must therefore also include action to address the needs of asylum seekers (Winkler, 2007, pp 45).

Refugee

A “refugee” is a person who resides outside of his/her country of origin and who is unwilling or unable to return to his country of origin because of a well-founded fear of persecution on account of nationality, religion, race or political opinion. The Convention defines a refugee as any person who, “owing ...