This half day course aims to increase delegates’ awareness of asylum seekers and refugees
There is a great need for an understanding and awareness by service providers of what issues affect asylum seekers and refugees. This course will assist delegates to develop a greater insight into these issues by thinking through their assumptions and preconceptions in a safe environment and then engaging in discussions and an interactive exercise to better understand:
What it means to be a refugee or asylum seeker
Reasons why they may have left their own country and are now in the UK
The differences between these two groups along with further differences between illegal immigrants and economic migrants.
Common misconceptions about what asylum seekers value and have to endure by examining the delegates own culture and that of others.
Greater understanding of legislation and human rights relating to asylum seekers and refugees.
About this course: This course is aimed at agencies who have contact with refugees or asylum seekers in the UK. The course highlights some of the most important social and cultural issues and highlights criminal and civil law issues.
Who is the course for: Anyone
working with asylum seekers.Duration: half day but may be extended to a full day if used in conjunction with another course such as ethnocentrism.
Format: Taught sections, whole group discussions, group exercise
Workbook:
All delegates on this course will receive a workbook to accompany the course to take away with them. There will also be signposts for further reading on asylum seekers and refugees.