Refugee Week

Subject: A report detailing activities that formed part of Mind's 2 year refugee and asylum-seeker advocacy project, funded by the Department of Health and delivered by Mind's Diverse Minds unit, which was set up in 1997.

Subject: Produced by Wast; Women Asylum Seekers Together, edited by Ursula Sharma with Hannah Berry and published by the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust in Manchester, this is a powerful and challenging collection.

This is a longitudinal study of highly qualified professionals, before and after they arrive as refugees in the UK. It powerfully challenges the stereotyped images of refugees, showing how and what they learn as they build viable and respected identities for themselves in a new social and cultura...

Subject: A report investigating disabled people in refugee and asylum seeking communities in the UK. The research report contains data on the numbers and social characteristics of disabled refugees and asylum seekers living in Britain.

Often called the Calais Jungle, the refugee camp in Northern France epitomises for many the suffering, uncertainty, and violence that characterises the lives of many refugees in Europe today. Migrants from ravaged countries, such as Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan, and Eritrea, arrive by the hundreds e...