Support for Asylum Seekers a guide to legal and welfare rights

Support for Asylum Seekers: a guide to legal and welfare rights

Description: "Support for Asylum Seekers
a guide to legal and welfare rights
by Sue Willman, Stephen Knafler and Stephen Pierce

The Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 established a new system of welfare support for asylum-seekers. Social security benefits have been withdrawn from 'in-country' asylum-seekers. A new cross-disciplinary area of law has evolved in response.

Lawyers and advice workers advising asylum-seekers about their rights to housing, community care and welfare benefits need a clear and concise text. Support for Asylum-seekers is that text. It is an essential, practical handbook - the most comprehensive and accessible available.

Support for Asylum-seekers features:

refusal of leave to enter
basic asylum and immigration law principles and procedures
social security entitlements of asylum-seekers and refugees
rights to local authority and NASS support under Part VI of the Immigration & Asylum Act 1999
dispersal
housing rights and disrepair
welfare consequences of a refusal of asylum
community care assessments
Human Rights Act issues
Home Office documentation
appendices containing relevant legislation, international materials, guidance, forms and letters together with useful resources

Readership:

Lawyers and advisers working in:
immigration law
housing law
community care law
family law
welfare benefits
Local authority departments:
social services
housing
legal
Government agencies

Sue Willman is a solicitor at Hammersmith and Fulham Community Law Centre specialising in housing and community care law. She has established an expertise in welfare law as it affects asylum-seekers, through her litigation, writing, training and policy development work.

Stephen Knafler is a barrister at 2 Garden Court. He specialises in housing, community care and support for asylum-seekers and has acted in many of the leading cases in these areas.

Stephen Pierce is a partner at Pierce Glynn solicitors, specialists in housing, community care and social security law. "

Paperback: July 2001 592pp

ISBN: 1 903307 02 3

http://www.lag.org.uk/