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AEGIS European Conference on African Studies
11 - 14 July 2007
African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Refugee Community Organizations in the British Asylum System: Reflections on the Ethiopian experience
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8. Refugees and the Law in Europe
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| Paper ID | 109 |
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Afework, Solomon
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| Abstract | For so long Refugee Community Organizations have been active in organizing legal support for asylum-seekers. For some applicants the organizations were serving as a starting point and for the others they were an advisory body, which repair cases when things were not in the right direction. However, this has changed since the introduction of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 and the introduction of the dispersal system the following year. This paper examines the effects of these changes paying attention to the following questions:
1. What significant role RCO’s were playing in organizing legal support for
Asylum-seekers and what practical changes were recognized since the
introduction of this new legislation?
2. How did these changes affect the newly arriving asylum seekers?
3. What are the implications of these changes on the UK asylum system?
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