The Importance of Convention Status

A Case Study of the UK

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2643215
AutoresA Bloch (0000-0001-9757-8930, autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen6
Número1
Páginas15-24
Fecha de publicación2001-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Research Online (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5153/sro.580
OpenAlexW2071950757
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas17

Convention status accords refugees social and economic rights and security of residence in European countries of asylum. However, the trend in Europe has been to prevent asylum seekers reaching its borders, to reduce the rights of asylum seekers in countries of asylum and to use temporary protection as a means of circumventing the responsibility of long-term resettlement. This paper will provide a case study of the United Kingdom. It will examine the social and economic rights afforded to different statuses in the areas of social security, housing, employment and family reunion. It will explore the interaction of social and economic rights and security of residence on the experiences of those seeking protection. Drawing on responses to the crisis in Kosovo and on data from a survey of 180 refugees and asylum seekers in London it will show the importance of Convention status and the rights and security the status brings

Convention · Economic growth · Economics · Human rights · Political science · Refugee · Residence · Social rights · Social security · Sociology · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration