Asylum seekers
Alternative labels
Refugee status determination
Asylum seekers policy
Briefing paper
Jumping through hoops: barriers to basic rights and opportunities for newcomers to Australia
This policy brief highlights policy solutions to improve access to basic rights and opportunities for newcomers to Australia, including income support, vital services like settlement support and housing assistance, and pathways to citizenship.
Position paper
Australian complementary pathways for refugees: policy principles
The Refugee Council of Australia has developed these core policy principles by working alongside key organisations involved in the development of complementary migration pathways for refugees and others in humanitarian need.
Report
'A punishing process': experiences of people on the 10-year route to settlement
Around 170,000 people are estimated to have permission to remain in the United Kingdom on a ’10-year route to settlement’ - a pathway that requires them to accrue 10 years of continuous lawful residence before they can apply for indefinite leave to remain. In this report, the authors take stock of the impacts of the...
Report
A new consensus? How public opinion has warmed to immigration
Public attitudes to immigration in the United Kingdom have warmed considerably in recent years. This paper - drawing on new analysis of attitudes data, including the British Election Study and the Ipsos immigration tracker - explores how views have changed and what this means for the current politics of immigration.
Report
Sanctuary UK: reforming our broken asylum system
This paper argues that the UK Home Office should lose its responsibility for immigration, with a new arm’s-length body named Sanctuary UK set up to overhaul the system and create a new, more humane system.