The 1999 Immigration and Asylum Seekers Act
To begin with this essay will give reasons why the 1999 Immigration
and Asylum Seekers Act was introduced, also the measures put in place
to deal with this issue. Secondly, the measures Labour implemented to
tackle this asylum issue, the affect of the voucher scheme on social
welfare and its criticism’s. Additionally this essay will explore the
affects of the Enforced Dispersal element of the 1999 Act and it’s
implications for the asylum seekers and the local authorities, next
the essay with cover the problems of the Asylum Seekers Act, the
influences that make up policy looking at implementation and
evaluation of policy, also exploring the historical factors that make
up policy and then summing up with final points.
The introduction of the 1999 Immigration and Asylum Seekers Act was
about the rapid rise of asylum seekers during the 1980s throughout
this period people seeking asylum continued to grow and increased
further in the 1990s. In many cases asylum seekers fled their country
because of potentially danger of torture from war. Asylum seekers
often have to encounter concerns of financial hardship and
homelessness. The current changes in legislation have limited asylum
seekers rights to public housing, welfare benefits and employment. The
Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 established new immigration measures
and powers along with comprehensive changes to the way asylum seekers
were looked after while they waited for a verdict on their
application (homelessnesspages.org.uk, 2000).
These measures were part of the 1998 findings of the Labour
government’s migration evaluation w...
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...vident with the 1999 Immigration
and Asylum Seekers Act.
To sum up briefly the core argument of this essay suggested that the
Labour government make an assumption that most asylum seekers were
bogus based partly by the negative media reports which described
asylum seekers as scroungers. With the social welfare policies in the
1999 immigration Act, the Labour government did not consider the
ethical considerations of the policies making the asylum seekers feel
vulnerable to discrimination and racism this was illustrated by the
ill feeling towards the asylum seekers in Glasgow when people felt
bitter by the hand outs in given to the asylum seekers in the way of
housing. Instead the Labour government looked at the financial
considerations with implementing the changes in the 1999 Immigration
and Asylum Seekers Act.
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