The guide aims to help Neighbourhood Renewal Partnerships to engage more effectively with refugees, asylum seekers and migrant workers by raising awareness of the challenges and issues they face.

It highlights the links to neighbourhood renewal and provides a range of ‘what works’ case studies as illustration. It details what rights in terms of funding are applicable when engaging with refugees, asylum seekers and migrant workers.

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Many refugees and asylum seekers have been housed in areas of depressed housing demand, including a number of neighbourhood renewal areas, as a result of the government’s policy to disperse asylum seekers outside London and the south east.

Additionally, due to different employment opportunities available, migrant workers continue to move to a large number of locations across the country.

The arrival of new refugees and asylum seekers and migrant workers in an area poses particular challenges both for the communities themselves and the organisations that work with them and it is important that organisations are harnessing available resources. 

The methodology used is not described.

The report concludes that without the integration of incoming communities in neighbourhood renewal areas where refugees and asylum seekers, and migrant workers are present, the success of neighbourhood renewal is put at risk.

It suggests that involving a wide range of people and tailoring services to diverse needs would strengthen communities and deliver neighbourhood renewal.

By providing case studies and a list of contacts it is hoped that neighbourhood renewal programmes across the country will be able to apply what works and come up with similar strategies and develop networks.

Communities and Local Government
Phone: +44 207 944 4400
contactus@communities.gov.uk

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01/01/2007

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