Researching the Refugee and Asylum Communities

February 2004

The Ethnic Research Network held their quarterly meeting in February 2004 at the offices of the COI. The presentation was delivered by Kirsteen Tait from ICAR (Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees in the UK). Based at Kings College London, ICAR aim to be an authoritative source of information about asylum and refugee communities.

Kirsteen shared her knowledge and experience and summarised some of the main academic thinking on this topic in recent years, highlighting methodological and content-related challenges for researchers, respondents, clients and, of course, the media. Some of the outcomes of these include: re-assessing our perceptions of who asylum seekers and refugees are; forging better relationships with journalists; working with the Home Office in helping to create greater understanding and publish information more readily.

For further information, see the Questions and Answers from the session, or call Anjul Sharma on 020 7923 6057.

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