Asylum seekers' and refugee's experiences of Life in Northern Ireland: Report of the first study on the situation of asylum seekers and refugees in NI - 2016
Published on 1 January, 2017.
This report focuses on the everyday life experiences of asylum seekers and refugees in Northern Ireland. It was commissioned by the Race Equality Unit at The Executive Office in order to inform the development of a refugee integration strategy for Northern Ireland. This research identifies the barriers, difficulties, and challenges experienced by asylum seekers and refugees as they adopt to their new lives in Northern Ireland. It identifies a number of key indicators of integration, such as employment, housing, education, healh, social bridges, language, cultural knowledge, rights and citizenship and examines how asylum seekers and refugees experience these domains in Northern Ireland.