‘All Doors are Closed to Us’: A social model analysis of the experiences of disabled refugees and asylum seekers in Britain

Harris, Jennifer

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“…Debate in some fields, for example, needs assessments with disabled people, people with learning disabilities and refugees and asylum seekers has moved on to talk about active participation in assessment over time rather than limited snap shots of the views of service users (see for example, discussions of the social model of disability by Barnes &Mercer, 1997 andHarris &Roberts, 2003). Researchers in these fields are concerned with how people within communities can participate rather than how they can be consulted or involved.…”

Section: Injustices Of Engagement: How Minority Ethnic Communities Armentioning

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Injustices of engagement: issues in housing needs assessments with minority ethnic communities

Temple

Steele

2004

Housing Studies

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In this paper, the authors draw out some of the issues involved in housing needs assessment with minority ethnic communities. In particular, they look at three aspects of 'injustices of engagement': (1) in the communities that are recognised; (2) who within these communities is included in needs assessments; and (3) how they are included. In the latter category they challenge the extent of community involvement in needs assessments generally and specifically in relation to the Western baselines of definitions of need. It is argued that unless issues of language are addressed the baseline will continue to be the researcher's Western value system and the needs will defined by them.

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Section: Injustices Of Engagement: How Minority Ethnic Communities Armentioning

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Injustices of engagement: issues in housing needs assessments with minority ethnic communities

Temple

Steele

2004

Housing Studies

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“…The sample offers the ability to seek detailed information from diverse individuals. There is limited research that qualitatively explores asylum seekers' experiences (Einolf, 2001;Shuman & Bohmer, 2004;Ranger, 2005;Mountz et al, 2002;Harris, 2003). In this study, asylum seekers are defined as individuals currently involved in the asylum process, specifically having filed their application and participated in the interview.…”

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Asylum Seekers’ Credibility Burden: Managing Trauma in the Asylum Process without Collective Support

Rider

2014

JSSW

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In cases of asylum, individual asylum seekers experience victimization and discrimination on the basis of a social identity, however, the process of seeking government protection from a host society is an individualized course of action. The U.S. asylum system provides the legal means for asylum seekers to apply for permanent residency status based on their ability to document valid claims of persecution. Qualitative interviews with individuals applying for asylum (n=14) reveal an underlying uncertainty based on themes of fear in sharing their story, fear of denial, and consideration of alternative plans while awaiting the asylum decision. This paper focuses on referencing the first hand accounts of asylum seekers in order to critically examine the trauma associated with the U.S. asylum system. The research asserts that the individualized process of asylum and the public perception that valid claims would be endorsed fails to acknowledge the asylum system as a source of detrimental barriers and trauma itself. And since asylum seekers participate in this process individually, the inability of adopting a cultural trauma frame serves to maintain the asylum system's status quo and direct burden on the asylum seeker for the outcome of his or her case.

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“…Apart from material that we have written (Roberts & Harris, 2001, 2002a, 2002bHarris & Roberts, 2003), there is little evidence to suggest that academics engaged in either the disability studies or refugee studies fields have considered the situation and particular experiences of disabled people in refugee and asylum seeking communities. Similarly, disabled people rarely feature in the so-called grey literature relating to refugees and asylum seekers.…”

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Challenging barriers to participation in qualitative research: involving disabled refugees

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2011

Doing Research With refugeesIssues and Guidelines

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‘All Doors are Closed to Us’: A social model analysis of the experiences of disabled refugees and asylum seekers in Britain

Cited by 45 publications

References 6 publications

Injustices of engagement: issues in housing needs assessments with minority ethnic communities

Injustices of engagement: issues in housing needs assessments with minority ethnic communities

Asylum Seekers’ Credibility Burden: Managing Trauma in the Asylum Process without Collective Support

Challenging barriers to participation in qualitative research: involving disabled refugees

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