Keene and Greatrick, ‘Improving Service Provision for Non-Normative Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK’, 2017
- Category: Reports
- Source: NGOs
- Subject: Sexual Orientation/Sexuality, Gender Identity, Refugee/Asylum
- Place: United Kingdom
- Year: 2017
- File: LGBT-Asylum-Seekers-Policy-Brief
- URL: http://ctdc.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/LGBT-Asylum-Seekers-Policy-Brief.pdf
Jordan Keene and Aydan Greatrick, ‘Improving Service Provision for Non-Normative Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK: Recommendations for Policy and Practice’, Policy Brief No. 6, CTDC, November 2017
Abstract
This policy brief focuses on services currently available for non-normative refugees and asylum seekers across the United Kingdom. It illustrates the gaps in service provision, and provides recommendations on how to fill these gaps. The brief shows how legal support is broadly available to non-normative refugees, but there is a lack of collaborative, widespread psychosocial support upon entry to the UK. Drawing on CTDC’s work and research in the Middle East and North Africa region, this brief also highlights the challenges facing non-normative refugees from Arabic speaking countries in particular, as well as recommendations to meet the needs of this group in the UK.